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Have you ever been served really badly? After this lesson, you will be able to express yourself in German on such occasions - and you’ll also know why some Germans will refer to Germany as a Servicewüste. Join us today for another easy lesson featuring useful, natural expressions in German. This lesson will also serve as a review of things learned previously.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Newbie 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.

7 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #16 - Düsseldorf Arc - I’ve never had such horrible service!”

GermanPod101.com says:

What are your experiences with service in Germany or elsewhere?

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Li says:

Regarding Kellnerin’s sentence in the pdf, she has “und der Cocktail Hawaii war für dich” as Formal, and “und der Cocktail Hawaii war für Sie” as Informal, is this correct?

Danke

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petiteclaire says:

It’s very easy ! Bad service means no tip !
How do things stand in Germany ? Are waiters paid fixed wages, and service included in the price of food and drinks, or do they only get paid by tips ? And how much are you supposed to tip ?

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Andrea says:

I think there are some mistakes, at least for me the line-by-line audio Transcript plays the “Wo bleibt eigentlich meine Apfelschorle?” audio for all these lines:

Formal German: Michael: Nein, bis jetzt war er immer gut…
Formal German: Lena: Ist die Kellnerin lahm oder was??
Formal German: Michael: Ähmm, Frau Wagner…
Formal German: Kellnerin: So, hier ist die Apfelschorle, und der Cocktail Hawaii war für dich, oder?
Formal English: Michael: Ehmm, Mrs Wagner…

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Andrea says:

Is there another place where I can post mistakes? I do not want to spam the forum :) . Here are 2 more:

In the “Expansion with Audio” section, the sample sentences for “oder” do not actually contain “oder”.

In the Lesson notes PDF, the line “Die Kellnerin ist wirklich lahm. The waitress is really lame.” is doubled.

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Richard says:

I have always had great service in Germany so I’m surprised to read about ‘Servicewüste’…it is better than the UK :oops:

There is something I do not understand in this dialog. It is the line:
‘Wo bleibt eigentlich meine Apfelschorle?’.
I thought the verb bleiben meant ‘to stay’ so the above sentence translates as:
‘Where stay exactly my apple spritzer?’. That seems odd to me?
Why is it not…..’Where IS my apple spritzer?’ oder ‘Wo ist eigentlich meine Apfelschorle?’

Loving the lessons

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Franck says:

Hi!

is this forum alive or even checked? I’ve also spotted the two mistakes in the “Expansion with Audio” section and they are still not corrected!

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