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In today’s lesson we learn about some of the most famous German spare time activities: clubs! No, not clubbing till you drop. More like soccer clubs, chess clubs or music clubs. And though you won’t believe it: Germans love them! You wouldn’t believe how many different kinds of clubs there are out there… And we will also tell you a little about adjectives and possessive pronouns. If you master them, they will make your German all the more natural sounding. You wouldn’t want to miss that, would you?

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12 Responses to “Beginner Lesson # 13 - Having Fun in Germany”

GermanPod101.com says:

I loved my judo club in Kamp-Lintfort, and Chuck and I both like to go to the Go club (a fascinating ancient strategy game). Also, we should probably join some kind of sports club because we’re gaining weight with all the great restaurants here in Berlin. Are you a member of any clubs?

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Codexus says:

I’m also a member of a Go club. Fascinating game indeed. :mrgreen:

Watching TV is a great way to learn a language. Since I live in Switzerland, I can watch several channels in German. Just listening for words and expressions I know is excellent practice.

I think the pdf for this lesson has some problems, the informal dialog is really the formal version again and there are lots of characters missing in the grammar section.

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GermanPod101.com says:

:oops: We were just experimenting with colors, so that similarities in the declensions would stick out more. Unfortunately it seems our PDF rendering engine is currently unable to process these correctly, causing all kinds of problems. I remove the colors and the PDF shows up nicely again. Thank you for your patience. :smile:

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Codexus says:

Thanks for fixing it! :grin:

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petiteclaire says:

I’ve always wanted to learn to play chess very well, and be in a club, but unfortunately I just don’t have the time… Otherwise I belong to a golf “club” but there aren’t any real “club activities” or “club mentality” there . Belonging mainly means you get money off green fees and balls… We do have a yearly club dinner though.

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Li says:

I am in an animation club. What do we do? We gather once or twice weekly and sit down watching the most recent and popular Japanese anime for 2-4 hours. There are subtitles, but still good for learning some Japapese.

btw, the new pdf is so much better as I was totally lost with the old one.

Li

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Jason says:

Hello!

In the practice section on Grammar, the question “Which case is “Eine große Frau?” gave the answer as Akkusativ. Isn’t it correct to say that it can also be in the Normativ case?

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Carl says:

Can you please explain the gender and case in the dialog “und die lachenden Kinder”, If Kind (Kinder) is neuter?
Danke, Carl

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Lorra says:

I was wondering if you guys could get a video lesson??? JUST ONE!!:) LOL I have never seen what you guys look like and I want to kniw what my teachers look like!:)
Danke,Lorra

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Judith says:

Jason, that’s right, it can also be Nominative.

Carl, “Kinder” is plural, so it doesn’t matter what gender it is; the plural forms are all the same. The form “die lachenden Kinder” can be Nominative or Accusative plural.

Lorra, you can see a brief video of us recording in the GermanPod101 christmas special. There are also the pictures on the “About us” page. Unfortunately we don’t have a skilled cameraman in Berlin, so the regular video lessons will continue to be produced in Japan.

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Richard Gill says:

Eine grammatsche frage.

In diese Dialog Chuck sagt „Aber in gro?en Städten in Amerika“ Wieso ist es „gro?en“ hier und nicht „gro?e“ zu die Städten. Es scheint verschieden von die Plural Beispiele in die PDF.

Danke

Richard

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Judith says:

-en ist die normale Endung für Dativ Plural. Nur Nominativ Plural is “große”. Wir erklären die Fälle und Endungen in der Intermediate Serie.

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