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If you don’t want to risk facing severe weather conditions in less than optimal clothing, you have to know how to talk about the weather in German. Besides, the weather is also a nice small-talk topic for when you are tongue-tied in face of beauty. And there’s a lot of beauty in Germany. Join John on his explorations with GermanPod101!
GermanPod101 teaches you the real thing: authentic modern German as you will hear it all across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This lesson will focus on the German future tense and on vocabulary related to the weather, though of course you will also just build your ability to have a conversation in German. To get the full dosis of real German, be sure to study the accompanying PDF and the exercises in the Learning Center as well!
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11 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #9 - Will I get soaked?”
GermanPod101.com says:
June 12th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
How’s the weather where you live? Is it comparable to Germany’s? Try answering in German!
Li says:
June 13th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Ich wohne in Nottingham, UK. Heute ist der Donnerstag, es wird wolkig. Es wird Regen der Morgen geben. Es wird Regen freitags.
….. any good?
Jacqueline says:
June 13th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Ich wohne in der Dominikanische Republik. das Wetter ist fast immer Sonnig hier. Es ist immer sehr heiß auch.
maxiewawa says:
June 14th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
In Celcius, 0 degrees is the freezing point of water, and 100 is the boiling point. So to make a thermometer calibrated to Celcius, you just make your thermometer, and put it in fresh wasser that has just frozen. Mark off that point as 0. Then boil it at sea level (air pressure affects its boiling point). Mark off the point that it boils, and that is 100.
As my high school science teacher explained it to me, the story behind Farenheit is more complicated. In those days, fresh water was very hard to come by. And the freshness of the water will affect its boiling point. So to get round this problem, Mr Farenheit used saline water. There is an upper limit to how much salt you can dissolve in water, so to this way you can keep the freshness level of the water constant no matter where you calibrate your thermometer. This is why 0 degrees Farenheit is the freezing point of saline water.
And instead of boiling water, Farenheit used the hottest thing he had handy, a horse. 100 degrees is the body temperature of a horse.
So Farenheit was just a matter of practicality. Farenheit didn’t have fresh water handy, and had no way of boiling it, so he calibrated his thermometer in a different way.
I’m not sure if this is at all true though, like I said, it was something that a science teacher told me when I was a little Gymnasium student.
By the way, Farenheit sounds like a German name, doesn’t it?
Jacqueline says:
June 16th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Maxiewawa,
Fahrenheit sounds like a german name because in fact it is a german surname ^^. The Fahrenheit temperature scale is named after the german physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.
GermanPod101 says:
June 16th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Thanks for the detailed explanation 
Li, here’s your correction:
Ich wohne in Nottingham, UK. Heute ist Donnerstag, es wird wolkig. Es wird am Morgen Regen geben. Es wird auch freitags regnen.
Jacqueline, your text was almost perfect:
Ich wohne in der Dominikanischen Republik. Das Wetter ist fast immer sonnig hier. Es ist auch immer sehr heiß.
Way to go!
Li says:
June 16th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Danke GermanPod101,
Think I meant to express “I live in Nottingham, UK. Today is Thursday, it is cloudy. It’ll rain tomorrow. It always rains on Fridays. ”
Didn’t quite get there … 
Looking forward to the next lesson.
anahita12 says:
June 17th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Hallo Li,
After having read your English text I’d translate it as follows:
Ich wohne in Nottingham (now most Germans would say England instead of UK as the expression UK or Vereinigtes Königreich is not very common, so many just say England when they mean the UK, often not being aware that this might be wrong).
Heute ist Donnerstag, es ist bewölkt. Morgen wird es regnen. Freitags regnet es immer (or: Es regnet freitags immer).
Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland,
anahita12
Salivia_Baker says:
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:31 am
Fahrenheit is based on the Rømer’s scale and it has the two fixed points of freezing water and human body temperature with some adjustments. Very weird and confusing if you ask me 
my favourite thing about weather is the expression “es ist wechselhaft” that can mean anything :p
Peter says:
November 12th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Ich wohne im Vereinigtes Königreich. Hier ist das Wetter wie es in der Dominikanischen Republik ist. Ja, wirklich…
Hier sagt man Fahrenheit wann es heiß ist und Celsius wann es kalt ist.
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Category: Beginner Lessons |
Grammar: future tense | Function: everyday talk | Topic: weather | Politeness Level: informal
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