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In today’s lesson we tackle some German dishes. Did you know that only very few tourists try German food, because there are so many alternatives? In this lesson we give you a few hints where to start your culinary journey. And you will hear why Michael isn’t happy about a dish called “Pfannkuchen”. Grammar-wise, this lesson is a review lesson, looking at the verb haben again and delving more into the many great ways of using it.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Beginner Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

21 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #12 - What’s that cabbage called?”

GermanPod101.com says:


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petiteclaire says:

More food talk ?! This is starting to look like a Jpod101 lesson ! lol ! :mrgreen:

What are german pancakes like : small and thick, like american pancakes, or large and thin, like french “crèpes” ?
Anyway, they sound delicious…. I’ve just eaten dinner, but the lesson made me hungry again !

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GermanPod101.com says:

German pancakes are somewhere in the middle I believe… not nearly as thin as crepes, but big, as large as the pan you make them in. You can have sweet pancakes or non-sweet pancakes. My family just does bacon pancakes for the non-sweet part, but for sweet pancakes we have: pancakes with jam, pancakes with nutella, pancakes with apples (particularly good with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar), pancakes with cherries, pancakes with blueberries…

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Codexus says:

Nice lesson!

I love crepes with jam or nutella so I’d probably like the German Pfannkuchen a lot too. The non-sweet ones aren’t really my thing though.

As for the lessons in general, I think it would be good to add more imagination and drama to the dialogs, like for example, the newbie series of koreanclass101 (their Ryuji in prison story arc is awesome) or some of the multi-part japanesepod101 lessons.

Also I’m eager to learn more grammar. Maybe the upcoming intermediate series will cover more advanced grammar?

Anyway, thanks for all the great lessons!

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GermanPod101.com says:

Thanks, Codexus. I’m not very good at drama (though the newbie series is turning out better than the beginner one). If you have any suggestions for interesting storylines, please e-mail me.

Yes, the intermediate series will cover more grammar. The beginner series contains about as much grammar as a beginner can handle, keep in mind that a lot of listeners never studied German before.

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Li says:

Thanks for the lesson.
Speaking of food, how to say certain food like ‘mushroom’, ‘carrot’, ‘parsnip’, ‘nuts’, and etc.

It’ll be good to know how to say “I do not like blah blah”, or “I am alergic to blah blah”.
“Is there blah blah in this dish?”

Viele Dank.

Li

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GermanPod101.com says:

mushroom = Pilz / Pilze
carrot = Möhre / Möhren
parsnip = Bärenklau (never heard of it, so you probably won’t have to fear that it appears in a German dish)
nuts = Nüsse

You can also look up more food items or other vocabulary at http://dict.leo.org .

I do not like = Ich mag keine .
I am allergic to
= Ich habe eine Allergie gegen .
Is there
in this dish? = Enthält dieses Gericht ?

For these sentences, always use the plural of a certain food word, if there is one.

Now, if this was China, you’d also need “Ist dieses Gericht scharf?” (Is this dish spicy?), but German dishes are never very spicy. In China, ? (la4) was one of the first words I picked up outside the textbooks.

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Salivia Baker says:

carrot is also Karotte / Karotten
maybe easier to remember.

The problem with Pfannekuchen is that it depends where you are it can also mean something different. Like in Berlin it’s the word for Berliner (the doughnut not the citizens). In Austria you would say Palatschinken - even though they are a bit different from Pfannekuchen liek Crepé is different from Pfannekuchen (they are thinner). Not that it’s *that* important to know all tastes very good ;)

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Teri says:

For I like, do not like, I learned “ich habe das gern/ich habe das nicht gern.” Is this less acceptable than “ich mag/ich mag keine?”

Thanks!

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GermanPod101.com says:

“gern haben” means liking a person, for example “Ich habe dich gern” is something that friends might say to each other - “Ich liebe dich” is reserved for lovers, and your parents won’t say that do you either for example. Anyway it seems really odd to use “Ich habe das gern” with things or activities.

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Li says:

Thanks, everyone.

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jennine says:

i really love this lesson, but i noticed all the sudden the audio clips are screwy… none of them match to the word in the flashcards.
:???:

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David Fukes says:

A few years ago I was visiting my brother who lived in Kitzigen, near Würzburg and we went to quaint restaurant nearby. It had a very nice decor with polished wood. I was surprised to see a carved wood religious figurine mounted on the wall. Anyway, I tried the some type of Schnitzel I think and it was ausgeseichnet!

Then a year ago December while on a cruise on the Danube we stopped in Straubing. The next morning our cruise director took a few of us who were interested to a pub at around 10am. There I had a large beer, a couple white sausages with mustard, and a huge pretzel. Later in the evening I went back with some friends for dinner and tried the Schweinhaxe (not sure if have the correct spelling) with Sauerkraut. And with a beer it was indeed sehr lecker!

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LauraN says:

My audio clips for this lesson are a bit messed up too.

I was wondering if at any point in the beginners series there will be any more emphasis on word genders? This is central to making use of a lot of the grammar and i think it would be helpful if die/der/das were added to the flashcards or something.
:wink:

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Carl says:

Diese Morgan hat meine Frau Pfannkuchen mit speck machen. Es wahr sehr gut. Aber wir zum Fruhstuck essen, nicht zum mittagessen. :mrgreen:

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Courtney says:

Hallo!!
You keep asking for feedback at the end of the lessons, so here I am. I really enjoy Germanpod101.com I live in Germany and would love to be fluent in this crazy language. So keep up the good work. The only thing I am wondering is, where is this learning centre that Chuck is always talking about? I have used the PDF of the lessons and the little vocabulary/grammar/content questions on the side… Is this what he is on about? Also , being that I write down every lesson, I think it would be more helpful if you provided more sample sentences of nominative, dative and accusative case. This way I could look back on them and remember more easily what makes it which case.
Thanks again!!!
:razz:

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Judith says:

Hello Courtney,

I’m glad you like GermanPod101! :grin:
The Learning Center is a link underneath each lesson, it’s always called “Learning Center” or “Premium Learning Center” and it’s available to students with a premium subscription only. For example the Learning Center for this lesson is at http://www.germanpod101.com/learningcenter/lessons/Beginner%20Lesson_12/ . The questions are definitely part of it, but you can also use it to improve your pronunciation and intonation by listening to line-by-line audio, listen to each vocabulary word pronounced separately, use the Word Bank to memorize vocabulary and keep track of which words are difficult for you, and so on.

Keep enjoying GermanPod101!

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Richard Gill says:

Hallo
Eine lekere Lektion! Aber, ist nicht Currywust und Frittes das Natsionalessen von Deutschland? Mann kann es alles uber Deutschland haben!
Eine andere Sache. Wann ich zu meine Frau „Ich habe Lust auf dich“ sagen. Sie sagt nichts!

Richard

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Richard Gill says:

Hi again

I have just been reviewing the vocab. and exercises in the learning centre for this lesson. I was surprised by the inclusion of “fesseln” and “Märchen”. They appear to have no bearing on the lesson content. Have they escaped from another lesson or are they a new concept in free bonus words?

Richard

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Judith says:

Thanks for letting me know! I’m not sure how they wound up, probably a technical issue. I fixed it.

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Lance says:

Good lesson and cultural insight. However, I wouldn’t list mustard as one of the top German food items. My experience in Germany is the opposite. Butter is used instead all the time. I’ll be at breakfast and there is the standard cold cuts, cheese, rolls and one can find marmalade and butter, but never mustard. It drives me crazy that I always have to ask for it and then the waitress goes to the kitchen and five minutes later returns with a large toothpaste type tube of mustard, sometimes past the expiration date. Worse yet, when I would get a pre-made sandwich with let’s say salami and cheese, it would have butter on it. Salami and butter! What?!! That was my biggest surprise in Germany since I always thought mustard was used for everything. Then again, they do take mayonnaise with their fries. Maybe some of this is regional.

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