CBG 1:01 | Saying how you are feeling
Coffee Break German
Radio Lingua Network
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2013
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this first episode of Coffee Break German, our new German course for beginners. In weekly episodes you’ll join native speaker Thomas who’ll be teaching learner Mark in gradual, structured lessons. Our “Cultural Correspondent” Julia and our “Grammar Guru” Kirsten will also join us in each episode to share their knowledge and love of all things German. In this first lesson, Thomas introduces us to the German language, and you’ll learn some useful words and phrases:
- how to say “hello” and “goodbye”;
- how to say “how are you?” and how to answer this question;
- the words for “yes” and “no”, and other useful German words which will come in handy every day.
You’ll also meet the other members of the Coffee Break German team: learner Mark is more used to teaching French and Spanish in Coffee Break French and Coffee Break Spanish; Kirsten, our Grammar Guru and self-confessed grammar geek, will be bringing us regular explanations of the trickier aspects of the German language; and Julia, our Cultural Correspondent, will provide the inside knowledge on all things German, Swiss and Austrian.
This season of Coffee Break German features a total of 40 episodes. Stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you'd like to benefit from lesson notes, bonus audio recordings and video versions of the lessons featuring 'synchronised video flashcards' to help you understand how the words and phrases are written, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break German on the Coffee Break Academy.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.0 | Book your train journey via Avanti West Coast.co. UK. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast. |
| 0:27.0 | Feel Good Travel. Coffee Breach German. This is the first in our new series which will help you learn German |
| 0:56.0 | step by step with us. You may already be familiar with Coffee Break French or Coffee break Spanish and we're delighted to add German |
| 1:05.6 | to a range of coffee break languages. Now if you've listened to coffee break French or Spanish |
| 1:11.6 | then you'll know that my role in those shows was to teach Anna or |
| 1:16.5 | Kara and also to teach our listeners. But in this program I'm going to be taking on a different role because my German isn't very good at all |
| 1:26.3 | I can manage a few words, but not very much so for that reason I brought along Thomas and |
| 1:32.3 | Thomas is a native German speaker and he's |
| 1:34.9 | going to be helping me and you learn German together. So Thomas can you |
| 1:40.2 | introduce yourself please and let all our listeners know who you are and where you come |
| 1:44.3 | from. |
| 1:45.3 | As I said, my name is Thomas. |
| 1:47.3 | I come from the south of Germany from Bavaria and I'm currently studying in Ninsbruck, which is in Austria, and doing my masters in geography and natural hazards. |
| 1:58.0 | Okay, and we have asked you to help us out with Coffee Break German. |
| 2:03.2 | As a native German speaker, you're obviously |
| 2:05.3 | going to be bringing that authentic element to our course. |
| 2:09.2 | And you are going to be helping me improve my German |
| 2:12.0 | over the course of these lessons. |
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