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17 Responses to “Beginner Lesson # 23 - At the Post Office”
Thursday at 6:30 pm
Did you spot the mistake?
And did you see European bills and coins already? What is your impression on them?
Friday at 9:13 am
I love how you guys do this stuff- it makes it more interestsing- and just having read there will a mistake made me pay much more attention to this lesson.
Howeveer, Ididnt find it. yet.
*goes back to listen again*
Friday at 8:18 pm
Hey, Chuck, just because no one looks at you strangely when you are paying your train tickets with a 200 Euro bill, doesn’t mean it’s always like that.
Paying per EC card is pretty common these days and if you try to pay with a 200 Euro bill in a small boutique, the salesperson is likely to look like he or she has a sour tooth and wine a little if you really can’t pay with a smaller bill.
Or try your luck in the backery. Paying with anything above a 5 Euro bill is almost suicidal. Try paying with a 50 Euro bill and you will leave the shop headless…
Saturday at 12:50 am
At first I thought I didn’t hear well and the post office clerck actually said ‘neunzehn Euro neunzig” because the change was not correct. So, that’s the intentionate mistake you put in the text: the change received after buying those briefmarken should be ‘ein Euro zwantig Cent’ , and not only 20 Cents.
Monday at 1:54 am
That’s it, loredana! You found it!
Saturday at 10:05 pm
are all the vocab words u give us formal or are some in formal.
Saturday at 10:06 pm
informal.
Sunday at 4:52 pm
There is no difference between formal and informal in the vocabulary, unless you are at an advanced level (literary vs. non-literary words). In German, the difference between formal and informal is just in whether you use “du” or “Sie”, and what greetings you use.
Saturday at 4:57 am
Actually the change should have been ein Euro ZEHN (not ZWANZIG) Cent.
Monday at 11:34 pm
Yes, you found the mistake!
Took a lot of time for somebody to notice!
Sunday at 11:18 am
He says he wants to send 18 postcards to the USA and 2 “to” Germany, but because he is already in Germany, shouldn’t he say the equivalent of “within” Germany?
Tuesday at 12:49 am
Hello,
Having trouble downloading the notes for this lesson, is it still available?
Thanks.
Tuesday at 3:38 am
Hello Kim!
Sorry you’re having trouble and yes, the notes should work. I just successfully downloaded them. If you could please send me your user name at contactus@germanpod101.com I’ll make sure your account is all set.
Thanks!
Sunday at 6:22 pm
i noticed the mistake too!!
but at first, i thought i was wrong so i reread it like 100 times!!
Monday at 12:42 pm
difficult should be schwierig not schwer. Though almost everybody uses schwer as difficult, in school we were taught difficult is schwierig and if you use schwer it is the wrong usage.
Teuro-Effekt.. it wasn’t that bad. sure teh prices went up for the most part but in fact it was just normal inflation. I am too lazy to write it in english so I jsut quote german wiki
“Dem Euro wird oft angelastet, dass Produkte inzwischen etwa soviel kosten wie seinerzeit in DM. Dies liegt daran, dass die jährliche Teuerungsrate nicht einbezogen wird und dieser Effekt zu DM-Zeiten auch zu beobachten war, jedoch der Bürger keinen Fixpunkt durch ein Basisjahr hatte (siehe Falsche Umrechnung).
[…]
Nach dem Verbraucherpreisindex des deutschen Statistischen Bundesamtes betrug die Teuerung in Deutschland für die ersten zweieinhalb Jahre seit Einführung des Euro-Bargelds im Januar 2002 insgesamt 3,3 %. In den zweieinhalb Jahren zuvor – den letzten der DM – stiegen die Verbraucherpreise um insgesamt 4,3 %.
Mitte des Jahres 2001 verzeichnete der Verbraucherpreisindex einen deutlicheren Anstieg der Preise in Deutschland im Vergleich zu den Vormonaten. Dieser lag jedoch weit unter den Steigerungsraten, die Anfang der 1990er Jahre verzeichnet wurden (bis zu 6,3 % Anstieg des Preisindexes im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat).
Auch ist zu bemerken, dass schon im 2. Quartal 2002 eine deutliche Korrektur einsetzte. Fälle deutlicher Preissteigerung wurden durch den Markt zumeist nach unten korrigiert.”
So it’s actually a myth that everything got so damn expensive. There was a bit ripping off by the industry but it wasn’t THAT bad as people want to believe.
Friday at 4:49 pm
In the section ‘Expansion with audio’ shouldn’t the sentence ‘Ich werden meinen Brief per Luftpost verschicken.’ be ‘Ich werde meinen Brief per Luftpost verschicken.’ ?
Friday at 4:58 pm
In the line by line audio transcript, the audio for English sentences is the German version!
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