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Coffee Break German

CBG 2.05 | Spielst du gern Klavier? | Talking about hobbies and pastimes in German

Coffee Break German

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German Language, Easy German, Learn German, Courses, German Lessons, Language Learning, Education

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this lesson of Coffee Break German you'll learn to talk about your hobbies and pastimes and to say when, where and how often you do these pastimes. This topic will introduce you to the concept of the Verbklammer, the "verb brackets" which surround any adverbs in your sentence. All will become clear when you listen to Andrea's explanations, and you can join Mark and practise your German in this context.

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0:00.0

Coffee Brick German Season German Session 5.

0:15.4

Session 5 indeed I've been Mark and I'm

0:18.4

an Andrea and we're and we're and there's

0:21.6

frow here to sign.

0:23.0

We're very pleased to be here.

0:26.0

Now Andrea, we've had a few comments on the website and indeed in Facebook and in emails just about the start of the course and how we've been dealing

0:36.4

with some really tricky stuff in these first few lessons.

0:39.8

Yes I'm not surprised because it has been very tough, but the things we've discussed, especially

0:48.2

the adjectival endings, they are really the most difficult topic you will encounter in the German language and unfortunately

0:56.7

we have to speak about this when we are in early stages of learning German

1:01.9

and is the kind of thing that once we realize that there are different endings and so on,

1:07.6

we will recognize them and the reading that we're doing and the listening that we're doing and so on.

1:11.7

And I suppose also it's the kind of thing that opens

1:14.7

doors it opens our understanding to the fact that there are these changes in the

1:19.4

language in different situations and that will also help us in other situations.

1:24.0

Yes exactly and we're really discussing it at this point

1:27.8

because people will come across it and wonder oh why is there an S or why is this and R etc.

1:34.8

And they're not expected to be proficient in using these things.

1:39.2

But when you read something, you'll come across it and maybe at the back of your head you will remember oh yes

1:46.0

adjectival endings and the good news is that we've got something a little more

1:50.6

simple today yes exactly so today we are going to be talking

1:54.1

about about hobbies and activities and so on and also thinking about when we do them

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