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Learn German travel phrases with GermanPod101.com! A little German can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, GermanPod101.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! In this final installment of the “Riding the Train in Germany” series we cover phrases that will help you to get on the subway. You will also learn how to ask about different subway lines. Don’t miss today’s quick lesson, and be sure to stop by GermanPod101.com and leave us a post!


Learn German with GermanPod101.com! After exchanging your money at a German currency exchange, you see a sign for a German tour that you really want to go on. Checking the time, it is somewhat earlier than you would normally be up and about, so maybe a wakeup call wouldn’t be a bad idea. Approaching your German hotel’s front desk, you request a wakeup call for the next morning. You tell the receptionist in German, “I shall need to be woken up at seven in the morning please.” After thinking about it for a moment, you correct yourself in German and say, “Let’s make it six thirty instead, please.” Missing this tour because you couldn’t wake up would really upset you. You want to do as much as possible while in this beautiful country.

Learning German with GermanPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn German! This German Upper Beginner lesson will cover a German modal verb meaning “shall.” We will also share some insightful information about money in Germany. Visit us at GermanPod101 where you will find many more fantastic German lessons and learning materials! Leave us a message while you are there!


Even in Germany the media are full of news about the American elections, but what about elections in Germany? The next federal election is coming up in 2009, with some smaller elections in-between, so it can’t hurt to learn some basics about the German democracy already. By the way, if you ever wondered what issues Germans debate about in a German election (not nearly the same as in the states!) or which German party would best reflect your beliefs, try the Wahl-O-Mat. It’s an independent, well-researched site that will ask you questions about important campaign issues and match your answers with those of German party leaders and party programs. They do this for every major German election, not just the federal level, with the hope of increasing participation in the elections.


Learn German with GermanPod101.com! Now that you’ve learned the German alphabet, it’s time to put your knowledge into practice. What’s the next step? Learning how each letter sounds! You look at the written German materials before you, and all of them have suggestions about how to pronounce German vowels, consonants, and those crazy letters with the dots that you just learned were called umlauts in the last lesson. But still, just looking at the German letters on the page is just not enough. There are so many brackets, parentheses, and dots that you just don’t know what to do! And then you learn there’s something called a stressed syllable in German…and as your headache grows, you think to yourself that the only thing getting stressed around here is you! It’s time for GermanPod101.com to come to the rescue!

Learning German with GermanPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn German! This German All About lesson will help you learn the rules governing German pronunciation. After this lesson, pronouncing those letters with the funky dots (and the other German consonants and vowels) will be a snap, and the only thing getting stress will be the proper German syllables! Visit us at GermanPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic German lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


Learn German with GermanPod101.com! You are finally in Germany and you are so excited! You have come here on company business, but know after spending only four days in the beautiful German mountainous-area, that you will definitely come back. Because you have been on your best behavior, and you don’t want to embarrass your company, you have spoken very formally with every person you have come in contact with. On one particular night, you and a business colleague take a German partner out to dinner. The business you needed to conduct was taken care of back at the office, but you still address the German partner as ‘Frau Löwen,’ and are speaking formally. After you have ordered, the partner says in German, “Please, just call me by my first name. We are done with our business, let’s have a good evening and cut the formalities.” Because you have switched to informal German conversation and the night has gone so well, at the end of the evening, your new friend responds that she must leave, but because you do not want to go home yet, you reply in German, “Please stay. The night is young and tomorrow we don’t go to the office.” The German partner seems okay with this and you carry on your conversation for another hour before calling it a night.

Learning German with GermanPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn German! This German Absolute Beginner lesson will teach you how to switch from formal German conversation to informal German conversation. We will also give you two more regular German verbs so you may add on to your German conversation. And if you haven’t been to Germany yet, we’ll give you some great excuses to go! 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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