Learn how to make polite suggestions and to express impatience
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Chuck: Chuck here. Beginner series, Season 2, Lesson #23. You're So Impatient! Don't Make This Conversation Mistake in Germany! Hello and welcome to germanpod101.com, the fastest, easiest and most fun way to learn German. |
| Judith: I am Judith and thanks again for being here with us for this beginner series, Season 2 lesson. |
| Chuck: In this lesson, you will learn how to express impatience in German but I am not sure if I can wait for that long. |
| Judith: This conversation takes place at a German company’s offices. The conversation is between the boss and the investor. |
| Chuck:The speakers are business acquaintances. Therefore they will be speaking formal German. If you don’t already have one |
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| Chuck: Sign up for your free lifetime account. |
| Judith: You can sign up in less than 30 seconds. |
| Chuck: Now let’s listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Investor: Guten Tag, Frau Schulte! |
| Boss: Guten Tag, Herr Schmidt! Kommen Sie herein! |
| Investor: Ist alles bereit fürs Meeting? |
| Boss: Ja, lassen Sie mich nur noch meine Notizen holen... |
| Investor: Gut, tun Sie das. |
| Boss: Möchten Sie vielleicht einen Kaffee oder... |
| Investor: Wasser bitte. |
| Boss: Mit Eis? |
| Investor: Ohne. |
| Boss: Ja, es ist nicht sehr heiß in diesem Jahr, finden Sie nicht auch? |
| Boss: Der Sommer lässt auf sich warten... |
| Investor: Frau Schulte, ich bin nicht hier, um das Wetter zu diskutieren. Lassen Sie uns anfangen! |
| Boss: Natürlich, sofort. |
| Judith: Now it’s slowly. |
| Investor: Guten Tag, Frau Schulte! |
| Boss: Guten Tag, Herr Schmidt! Kommen Sie herein! |
| Investor: Ist alles bereit fürs Meeting? |
| Boss: Ja, lassen Sie mich nur noch meine Notizen holen... |
| Investor: Gut, tun Sie das. |
| Boss: Möchten Sie vielleicht einen Kaffee oder... |
| Investor: Wasser bitte. |
| Boss: Mit Eis? |
| Investor: Ohne. |
| Boss: Ja, es ist nicht sehr heiß in diesem Jahr, finden Sie nicht auch? |
| Boss: Der Sommer lässt auf sich warten... |
| Investor: Frau Schulte, ich bin nicht hier, um das Wetter zu diskutieren. Lassen Sie uns anfangen! |
| Boss: Natürlich, sofort. |
| Judith: Now with the translation. |
| Investor: Guten Tag, Frau Schulte! |
| Investor: Good day, Mrs Schulte! |
| Boss: Guten Tag, Herr Schmidt! Kommen Sie herein! |
| Boss: Good day, Mr Schmidt! Come in! |
| Investor: Ist alles bereit fürs Meeting? |
| Investor: Is everything ready for the meeting? |
| Boss: Ja, lassen Sie mich nur noch meine Notizen holen... |
| Boss: Yes, just let me get my notes… |
| Investor: Gut, tun Sie das. |
| Investor: Okay, do that. |
| Boss: Möchten Sie vielleicht einen Kaffee oder... |
| Boss: Maybe you'd like a coffee or… |
| Investor: Wasser bitte. |
| Investor: Water please. |
| Boss: Mit Eis? |
| Boss: With ice cubes? |
| Investor: Ohne. |
| Investor: Without. |
| Boss: Ja, es ist nicht sehr heiß in diesem Jahr, finden Sie nicht auch? |
| Boss: Yes, it's not very hot this year, don't you think so as well? |
| Boss: Der Sommer lässt auf sich warten... |
| Boss: The summer is running late… |
| Investor: Frau Schulte, ich bin nicht hier, um das Wetter zu diskutieren. Lassen Sie uns anfangen! |
| Investor: Mrs Schulte, I'm not here to discuss the weather. Let's start! |
| Boss: Natürlich, sofort. |
| Boss: Of course, immediately. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Judith: I think we should look at the Smalltalk in German. |
| Chuck: All right. |
| Judith: One thing is that there is considerably less Smalltalk in Germany than in the States especially in professional relationships. |
| Chuck: How is your day today Judith? |
| Judith: This would be very unusual. When you are having conference, first ask everybody about the day, about the weather or whatever. The weather talk is even uncommon among friends let’s say. |
| Chuck: Yeah Germans tend to like just to get to the point in business meetings. |
| Judith: On the other hand, if you ask somebody how are you like if you ask a friend, that serves as a starter to hear but everything is going on in people’s lives. So don’t be surprised if you get a long answer. |
| Chuck: Many people may also answer negatively to this question especially older people who take pride in enumerating their illnesses. |
| Judith: Among friends, the news or the political situation can easily come up as a topic of discussion as well. It’s not taboo and generally you’d expect everybody to be up-to-date with the basics of current events. |
| Chuck: Let’s look at the vocabulary for this lesson. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Judith: First word [Herein] |
| Chuck: Into, in or within. |
| Judith: [Herein, herein] This is always for a movement from outside to the current location. Next word [Bereit] |
| Chuck: Ready. |
| Judith: [Bereit, bereit] Next word [Nur] |
| Chuck: Only or just. |
| Judith: [Nur, nur] Next word [Holen] |
| Chuck: To fetch or bring. |
| Judith: [Holen, holen] Next word [Kaffee] |
| Chuck: Coffee. |
| Judith: [Kaffee, Kaffee, der Kaffee] this is masculine. Next word [Wasser] |
| Chuck: Water. |
| Judith: [Wasser, Wasser, das Wasser] this is neuter. Next word [Eis] |
| Chuck: Ice or ice cream. |
| Judith: [Eis, Eis, das Eis]. This is neuter. Next word [Ohne] |
| Chuck: Without |
| Judith: [Ohne, ohne] Next word [Heiß] |
| Chuck: Hot. |
| Judith: [Heiß, Heiß] Next word [Sommer] |
| Chuck: Summer |
| Judith: [Sommer, Sommer] This is masculine [der Sommer]. Next word [Um] |
| Chuck: In order to or at a certain time. |
| Judith: [Um, um] Next word [Diskutieren] |
| Chuck: To discuss. |
| Judith: [Diskutieren, diskutieren] Next word [Anfangen] |
| Chuck: To begin. |
| Judith: [Anfangen, anfangen] And this is a vowel changing verb that also splits off the first syllable. So [Er fängt an] and past tense [Er find an] or [Er hat angefangen] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Chuck: Let’s have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Judith: The first word we look at is [Fürs] |
| Chuck: [Für das] For the. |
| Judith: [Fürs] stand for [Für das] but only when [Das] is the article. For example, [Für das Geschenk, Fürs Geschenk] This is a very common contraction in spoken German and increasingly common in writing. The next phrase is [Lässt auf sich warten] |
| Chuck: Literally has people wait for it. |
| Judith: This means that it’s still missing. It’s not on the horizon or it’s running late like [Der Sommer lässt auf sich warten] means the summer is not here yet even though everybody has been expecting it to be here by now. Now for the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
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| Chuck: Let’s review the ways in which you can suggest something in a nice, polite way that can be used even for superiors. |
| Judith: The first way is to use the polite imperative of all verbs. If you recall, this is the same form as the conjugated [Sie] form of a verb but with the [Sie] put after rather than before the verb. So [Gehen Sie] |
| Chuck: Go |
| Judith: Instead of [Sie gehen] |
| Chuck: You go. |
| Judith: [Kommen Sie] instead of [Sie kommen] and so on. |
| Chuck: You can even add bitte but as you saw in this dialogue, it’s not mandatory particularly if you are suggesting something that is so obvious or to the person on advantage. |
| Judith: The polite imperative of [Lassen] is particularly important. [Lassen Sie uns] is the polite way of saying let’s. |
| Chuck: Note the difference too. [Lass uns] which would be the equivalent phrase when talking to a friend. |
| Judith: [Lassen Sie uns, Lass uns] You can also use [Möchten Sie] as an almost rhetoric question. Here you can add [Vielleicht] to make it more polite. |
| Chuck: That completely removes all pressure from the addressee to respond positively. |
Outro |
| Chuck: Well that just about does it for today. Don’t forget that you can leave us a comment on this lesson. |
| Judith: So if you have a question or some feedback, please leave us a comment. |
| Chuck: It’s very easy to do. Just stop by germanpod101.com |
| Judith: Click on comments. |
| Chuck: Enter your comment and name |
| Judith: And that’s it. |
| Chuck: No excuses. We are looking forward to hearing from you. See you next time. |
| Judith: [Bis nächste Woche.] |
Comments
HideCan you recall a situation in which you were VERY impatient? Can you say something about it in German?
Hello Sue,
Thank you again for bringing this up.
I did contact the tech team and learned a few things myself. I am sure that a lot of
our learners may benefit from this exchange.👍
When you use a PC for studying, you will find a Slideshow button underneath the vocab list.
That slideshow does actually include a loop function.
As for the app on the smartphone, there are both, an "Autoplay" and a "Repeat" toggle
underneath the play button.
If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us again. 😉
Kind regards,
Reinhard
Team GermanPod101.com
Hello Sue,
Thank you for posting.
That's an interesting idea and I will forward your comment to our
team for further consideration. To my knowledge however, it cannot be done
right now.
One workaround I can think of might be to either download several different tracks
and compile them on a playlist for your audio device, or, if you insist on listening to only
one track over and over again, you might save it with different file names like ...-1, ...-2 etc. and make
a playlist of those (?). (Time consuming, admittedly.)
I hope this is of some help. 😉
If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us again.
Kind regards,
Reinhard
Team GermanPod101.com
Hi- this may not be the correct place to leave a comment, but I was wondering if there was any way that the dialogue and /or the vocabulary list could be “looped” around so I could listen to it over and over again with having to restart it each time. It would make learning so much easier. I could repeat it in the car while driving or while working in the garden and not have to keep getting my phone out to restart it each time. Thanks so much for getting back to me regarding this ( I’m older and really need a lot of audio repetition😌). PS - I am learning a lot and really like the lessons
Hi Bhuvaneswary,
Thanks for getting back to us.
No problem. Always a pleasure. 😉
If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us again.
Kind regards,
Reinhard
Team GermanPod101.com
Hello,
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately I missed to notice that earlier and today I see them in the bracket. Then I came here to comment again that it is available. And saw your reply :) Thanks again.
Hello Bhuvaneswary,
Thank you for your feedback.
Our company decided to display the nouns in their dictionary form and then we add the gender information in either brackets in the Vocabulary list, or in the Lesson Notes PDF.
We found that encouraging the student to actively look for the article aids the learning process.😉
If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us again.
Kind regards,
Reinhard
Team GermanPod101.com
Hello,
Ich habe einen Vorschlag. Ich füge der Karteikarte immer neue Wörter hinzu. Es ist gut, wenn es auch Artikel für Substantive gibt
Danke,
Bhuvaneswary
thank you for lesson transcripts
robert
Hello Shai,
I presume you are referring to Katrin's answer to Harley and
you are right: you can write these words together. It is even more common,
I think.
Thank you.
If you have any further questions, please let us know.
Kind regards,
Reinhard
Team GermanPod101.com
Hallo Jennifer,
In die Antwort fur Harley, kannst jedermann der wort hinein kommen und herein kommen schreiben zusammen, sowie hereinkommen und hineinkommen ?
Viele Dank
@Noor: "Hallo Leute,
Wie geht es euch? Zuerst möchte ich unsere Lehrern danken. Alle Lektionen sind prima :smile: :thumbsup:
Die neue Worten und Sätze sind sehr hilfreich. Ich möchte nach Deutschland fahren und diese neue Wörter benutzen.
Ich werde eine kleine Geschichte schreiben.
Als ich Studentin in der zahnmedizinischen Fakultät war, habe ich ein neues Auto gekauft und ich wollte schneller fahren. Ich nahm nur 5 Lektionen und ich war auf der Straße mit meinem neuen Auto. Das war falsch. :disappointed:
Einen Monat später habe ich einen großen Unfall gehabt :sob:
Mein Auto war kaputt und ich war sehr traurig.
Später habe ich viele Lektionen genommen :smile:
Manchmal muss man halt geduldig sein.
Bis Später
Tschüss
Keep up the good work!:thumbsup:
Jennifer
Team GermanPod101.com
Hallo Leute,
Wie geht es ihnen? Zuerst mochte ich unsere Lehrern danken, Alle Lektionen sind prima :smile::thumbsup:
Die neue Worten und Sätze sind sehr hilfreich. Ich mochte nach Deutschland fahren und diese neue Worten benutzen.
Ich werde eine kleine Geschichte schreiben? ?
Wann war ich eine Studentin in der Zahnmedizin Universität, habe ich ein neues Auto gekauft und wollte ich schneller es fahren. Ich nehme nur 5 Lektionen und war ich in der Straße mit meinem neuen Auto. Dass war sehr falsch :disappointed:
Einen Monat nachher habe ich einen großen Unfall gemacht :sob:
Mein Auto war kaputt and war ich sehr traurig.
Später habe ich viele Lektionen genommen :smile:
Manchmal muss man geduldig sein.
Bis Später
Tschüss
Hi Harley,
Good job on these sentences, they can be understood easily - you are doing fine!
Here are a few small corrections (to make things easier, I will fully quote your sentences).
Wenn ich nach Hause komme, sind meine Hunde drinnen. Sie müssen sofort nach draußen. Ich jage sie hinaus. Dann fünfzehn Minuten später... Die Hunde sind draußen, und sie möchten hinein kommen. Also lasse ich sie natürlich herein.
Any questions? Just let me know :)
Keep up the good work!
Katrin
Team GermanPod101.com
Hallo
Ich lerne uber die unterscheide zwischen heraus, hinaus, innen und herein etc.
Sind die folgenden Satze in Ordnung?
Wenn Ich komme nach Hause an, sind meine Hunde innen. Sie muessen sofort heraus gehen! Ich jage sie heraus. Dann funfzehn Minuten spaeter... Die Hunde sind raus, und sie mochten innen kommen. So natuerlich, Ich lasse sie herein. :-)
-Ich danke Ihnen fui Ihre Hilfe.
When I come home my dogs are inside. They must go outside immediately! I chase them out. Then fifteen minutes later... The dogs are outside and they would like to come inside. So, I let them in.
-Thanks for your help.
Das hat Sinn. Ich mich erinnere dass, wann ich fünf Jahre alt war, ich in einem Park war. Ich wollte auf dem Karussell fahren und ich fuhr vier Male. Nach dem vierte Mal blieb ich in dem Karussell weil ich auf dem fünfte Mal nicht warten wollte. Ich wollte nicht aussteigen denn ich wollte ein fünfte Mal sofort fahren.
I think that's the most German I've ever tried writing at once. Danke für die Geduld mit meinem Deutsch und mit alle uns hier in Germanpod101.
Glad you like it. The word for impatient is "ungeduldig" and it's not very frequent, that's why we didn't teach it. It's a lot more common for people to be impatient than for them to talk about it.
Another great lesson guys. It's curious that you didn't use the word impatient in the dialogue. I just want to say that I really benefit from you guys making the dialogue accessible from the MP3 player. Being able to take a quick look and then listen helps a lot with comprehension and then with writing.