Getting ready for a visit to the market | A Coffee Break with Thomas
Coffee Break German
Radio Lingua Network
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
It’s market season! 🇨🇭🧅
In this short and cheerful episode, Thomas takes us to Bern for one of the country’s most famous traditions — the Zibelemärit, or Onion Market. Discover how this colourful event transforms the city into a sea of onions and learn some useful German market phrases along the way.
From ordering Glühwein to asking for regionale Produkte, this mini-lesson will help you sound confident and curious on your next trip to a German-speaking market. Whether it is an onion or a Christmas market, after this episode, you will be able to navigate them all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:01.7 | and very welcome to |
| 0:02.9 | a new podcast |
| 0:04.1 | follow of |
| 0:05.2 | Coffee Break German. |
| 0:07.3 | My name is Thomas |
| 0:08.5 | and today |
| 0:09.8 | we're going |
| 0:10.9 | we're |
| 0:11.1 | a market. |
| 0:14.0 | And it is not |
| 0:15.1 | just any market |
| 0:16.3 | we visit. |
| 0:17.2 | Today we are going |
| 0:18.1 | to burn the capital |
| 0:19.8 | of Switzerland |
| 0:20.6 | and to one of its most |
| 0:22.7 | famous markets. |
| 0:24.4 | The Tsiebel emerit. |
| 0:26.4 | Or, without my poor |
| 0:28.2 | Swiss German accent, |
| 0:30.1 | their Svibel |
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