Beginners German

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conversation lesson:

Herr Dr. Schmidt: Guten Morgen, Frau M?ller.

Frau M?ller: Guten Morgen, Herr Doktor Schmidt. Wie geht es Ihnen?

Herr Dr. Schmidt: Sehr gut, danke. Und Ihnen?

Frau M?ller: Leider nicht sehr gut.

Herr Dr. Schmidt: Oh, das tut mir Leid.

Frau M?ller: Auf Wiedersehen, Herr Doktor Schmidt.

Herr Dr. Schmidt: Auf Wiedersehen.

Glossary--
das B?ro: The office
im B?ro: In the office
Herr: Mister
Frau: "Frau" is the title used for both maried and single women and approximates to the English Ms., Mrs. or Miss.
Wie geht es Ihnen?: "How are you?" As this is an office environment, the formal version is used.
Sehr gut, danke.: "Very well, thank you". This is short for "Mir geht es sehr gut, danke" ("I'm very well, thank you"), which you could also say at this point.
Und Ihnen?: "And you?" This is short for: "Und wie geht es Ihnen?", which you could also say in full if you wished.
Leider nicht sehr gut.: "Not so good." The word "leider" on its own means "unfortunately".
Oh, das tut mir Leid.: "Oh, I'm sorry." As in English, this can mean that you are sorry to hear something or sorry because of something that you have done.

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One thing that is rampant in both US and our neighbors across the atlantic is the use of credit/debit cards. I came across this little sentence that may help those of us that frequently use credit cards (and also those of us who don't)

Kan man mit Kreditkarte Zahlen?

Do you take credit cards?

Assalamu Alejikum meine Damen und Herren,

Ich freue mich das so viele Leute diese Sprache studieren mo"gten. Falls jemand einige Frage hast,stehe ich sofort zu Bereit.

Alles Gute fu"r Sie ,
Wasalaam,
Timur

After a little hiatus I am back from the land of the free and the home of the bereaved, my dear home Pakistan. Anyways will try yo find some useful sentences and lessons. I guess I will try to keep to simple lessons because I think that we won't be able to master the language but at least we can get by if we are ever in any German speaking land. :)

Wievel kostet das?
How much does that cost? (Informally how much is that)

Bruder : Brother
Vater : Father
Oberst : Colonel
Kinder : children/Offspring e.g.

ok, enough backgrounding .. can we have some real lessons please :-o on that note, here is a little lesson i found online: (see above)

insider report, apply a job at UN. lol (no offence!)

Gillbhai, I'm always surprised at the different languages and I've always wished to be able to have a job where I had to learn them one by one. How awesome would that be to get paid for doing something I want to do anyway, getting paid to learn? It could be worse.

Well I think that all these languages have a single root, I think (but am not sure) the Indo European root. But at different times they split off, thus creating these different languages. So you are right that they actually came off from the same assembly line (pardon the pun) but their split off time is something that really separates them. Take for example the Basque, the group in Spain that is fighting for their own piece of land and country. Well their language is not even from the Indo - European language group. No one in the world speaks that language and the accents, are not similar to anything else in the world. I mean they really are one of a kind. I guess the same goes for the Yanomamo (the group living in forests of Amazon). It?s pretty amazing when you think about it that all these languages exist which don't have the same root at all, unlike other languages like Urdu, German, Spanish etc.

Except for that B-looking letter.

Wow, didn't know that. I was assuming German was - and this'll sound silly now - from the Latin roots like French and Spanish were. Boy do I feel like a moron now.

I have always found German to be a little easier than the other languages, I think the reason is because of the common root between English and German. Both come from the main German root of languages, unlike Spanish, French, or for that matter the cryllic alphabet languages. German is pretty much written the way it is pronounced (most of the time) just like English.

Gillbhai, thanks. I guess I never really knew how to spell "eine" - was guessing. These numbers seem somewhat easy to remember or pronounce, which surprises me because I always assumed it was such a hard language.

Numbers

Eine - One, Zwei - two, Drei - Three, Vier(fee-ah) - Four, Funf - Five, Sechs - Six, Sieben - Seven, Acht -Eight, Neun - Nine, Zehn - Ten.

Auf Wiedersehen : Goodbye/Bye Bye. This may be a little formal, I guess most people that I have met really just say Bye in most of the European countries including Germany. Also G?ten Tag (Good Day) is used commonly as a greeting.

Some other are

Good Morning : G?ten Morgen
Good Evening : G?ten Abend
Good Night : G?ten Nacht (Nacht- Naa-kh-t)

My girlfriend learned in 8th grade German, but she remembers nothing. All she ever taught me was "ich" means I. ha, ha! Then a foreign exchange student taught me "ein" meant one and then the word for bucket. He was a punk and went back home b-4 his year ended. Bela Helmich who always had to laugh at my pronunciation, claiming Americans couldn't pronounce his name, etc, etc. Then I whopped his @ss in typing. Grr!

layela, that means I love you. I don't know about the last word, but the first two are right.

ich lieb idish (hum.. i'm not sure of the spelling)

aha!

i know bahn is german for road, thus autobahn.

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