Learn German with GermanPod101.com! Vacationing in Germany with some friends, you all decide to try a new German sports bar. Because it is new, you do not know what type of crowd will hang out there, but you are ready to have some fun anyway. You and your friends have made up a type of code in case one of you needs to be bailed out from a bad conversation with a girl. The code is ‘oo7’s phone number.’ Simply put, if a girl asks for your phone number and you don’t want to give it to her, you give her a fake German number beginning with 007. Then your friends help get you away from the unwanted company. Sounds barbaric, but it works! At the sports bar, your friend ‘hooks-up’ right away, retreating to the other side of the bar. You awkwardly find a seat in a booth as two girls approach. Hmm..lucky night! As you begin talking though, you learn that the girls are friends of the ex-girlfriend of you missing buddy. They may act like they don’t care, but you smell trouble. And your friend can’t hear you to save you from the company, so you have to grin and bear the conversation. Finally, your friend approaches and you give him a look that cries, “Help!” Your friend tells you that he wants you to meet one of his buddies, but the girls don’t want you to go. Finally, they let you go but ask you for your phone number here in Germany so you can meet up again later. In German, you begin in Russian, “007.” One of the girls laughs, interrupting in German, “What are you, an agent like 007?” You give the girl a sly look and slip away with your friend. You can hear the girls giggle as you walk away. Saved by the German phone number again!
Learning German with GermanPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn German! This German lesson will teach you how to speak German in the first person plural. You will also learn how to dial German phone numbers. In addition, you will learn important German area codes and what German region area codes come from. After learning these important German numbers, you could program your phone! Visit us at GermanPod101 where you will find many more fantastic German lessons and learning materials! Leave us a message while you are there!

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4 Responses to “Absolute Beginner #5 - Is that 007’s German Phone Number?”
Monday at 6:30 pm
Tuesday at 12:42 am
Hi Judit,
I love the quality of your voice in the podcasts. Can you tell me which microphone do you use for the recording? Or maybe a website where I can find the right instruments?
Vielen Dank
Wednesday at 12:51 am
Just to let you know. In the learning Center as well as in the pdf there is a mistake in the dialogue.
the dialogue says “Danke. Meine Telefonnummer ist null-eins-drei-sieben, sechs-fünf-zwei-eins neun-null-null-sieben.”
But the translation is “Thanks. My phone number is oh-one-three-seven, six-five-two-one nine-double oh-nine.”
It should be double oh-seven at the end (especially since this is the Bond-joke)
Saturday at 5:27 pm
Ashi, I just contacted the studio owner about this and he said the microphones are UM705 microphones with medium-size membranes produced by the Eastern German company RFT VEB Mikrofontechnik Gefell, and modified by Siegfried Thiersch. After the reunification this company adopted the name Microtech Gefell. We’re also using microhone amplifiers, Studer D19MicValve.
Salivia, thank you for spotting that!
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