CBG 1:16 | Buying souvenirs
Coffee Break German
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4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2013
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this latest episode of Coffee Break German you’ll be learning to deal with shopping situations in German. In this lesson you’ll learn:
- how to ask for things in shops;
- how to use the verbs kaufen (to buy), anprobieren (to try on), zahlen (to pay) and nehmen (to take);
- what modal verbs are, and how to conjugate können (to be able) and wollen (to want) in the present tense, and mögen (to like) in the conditional;
- cultural tips for dealing with shopping in German-speaking areas.
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| 1:10.0 | Welcome back to Coffee Break German. |
| 1:11.0 | We are here to help you with your German. My name is Mark. |
| 1:14.0 | My name is Thomas. And today we're going on to a new topic, the topic of shopping. |
| 1:21.2 | We'll be using the numbers that we were learning last week in the context of prices, |
| 1:26.2 | and we'll also be looking at the concept of modal verbs. |
| 1:30.3 | Sounds a little complicated so far, but I'm sure Thomas will explain everything. |
| 1:34.0 | So Thomas, we get the hight? |
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