LESSON TRANSCRIPT

Absolute Beginner S2 #5
You're Not in Kansas Anymore, This
is Germany

CONTENTS
2 INTRODUCTION
2 DIALOGUES
2 POST CONVERSATION BANTER
4 VOCAB LIST
5 KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES
5 LESSON FOCUS

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INTRODUCTION

Chuck: Chuck here. Absolute Beginner Season 2, Lesson 5, You're Not in Kansas
Anymore. T his is Germany. Hello and welcome to GermanPod101.com where we
study modern German in a fun educational format.
Judith: So brush up on the German that you started learning ago or start learning today.
Chuck: T hanks for being here with us for this lesson, Judith. What are we looking at
today?
Judith: In this lesson you will learn where you're from.
Chuck: T his conversation takes place at the registration desk of a German Language
School.
Judith: T he conversation is between Paul and the woman doing the registration.
Chuck: T he speakers are in a business relationship therefore they'll be speaking formal
German. Let's listen to the conversation.

DIALOGUES

Judith: Sind Sie Engländer?

Chuck: Nein, ich bin Amerikaner.
Judith: Aus welcher Stadt sind Sie?
Chuck: Denver. Das ist in Colorado. Kennen Sie Colorado?
Judith: Colorado... Das ist links neben Kansas, oder?
Chuck: Haha, ja, wir sind links neben Kansas, und rechts von Utah.
Judith: Now slowly.
Judith: Sind Sie Engländer?
Chuck: Nein, ich bin Amerikaner.
Judith: Aus welcher Stadt sind Sie?
Chuck: Denver. Das ist in Colorado. Kennen Sie Colorado?
Judith: Colorado... Das ist links neben Kansas, oder?
Chuck: Haha, ja, wir sind links neben Kansas, und rechts von Utah.
Judith: Now with the translation.
Judith: Sind Sie Engländer?
Chuck: Are you English?
Judith: Nein, ich bin Amerikaner.
Chuck: No, I'm an American.
Judith: Aus welcher Stadt sind Sie?
Chuck: Which city are you from?
Judith: Denver. Das ist in Colorado. Kennen Sie Colorado?
Chuck: Denver that's in Colorado. Are you familiar with Colorado?
Judith: Colorado... Das ist links neben Kansas, oder?
Chuck: Colorado. T hat's next to Kansas to the left, isn’t it?
Judith: Haha, ja, wir sind links neben Kansas, und rechts von Utah.
Chuck: Yes, we're to the left of Kansas and to the right of Utah.

POST CONVERSATION BANTER

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Judith: All right. So I think today we should cover a really important topic and that is
the kind of words that you would encounter on a German form like if you want to stand
up to the language school.
Chuck: All right. Sounds good.
Judith: T his is actually a more advanced set of vocabulary but the German
government has determined that they should be taught in beginner courses anyway
because they're just so essential.
Chuck: Yeah, you really can't get any paperwork done without knowing them and we
know Germans love paperwork.
Judith: All right. So here are the most common words that you'll need to be able to
recognize in forms. One is T itel
Chuck: T itle.
Judith: T his is if you're like a doctor or professor or a PhD or whatever. T here’s also
Anrede
Chuck: T hat'll be the form of address like sir or what else would you have there?
Judith: Well, mostly “Herr” or “Frau”, you know, Mr., Mrs., Ms., anything like that. T hen
we have Name
Chuck: Name.
Judith: Which could also be split in to Vorname
Chuck: First name or given name.
Judith: And Nachname
Chuck: Last name or family name.
Judith: And then there's Geschlecht
Chuck: Gender.
Judith: Remember this word Geschlecht. Here you would put an M for man or a W for
woman because the German words are „männlich“
Chuck: Male.
Judith: And „weiblich“
Chuck: Female.
Judith: T hen we have Alter
Chuck: Age.
Judith: And then Nationalität
Chuck: Nationality.
Judith: T his one should be easy for you to recognize or sometimes they use the
German word Staatsangehörigkeit
Chuck: Citizenship.
Judith: Staatsangehörigkeit , It's a long word. You should look this up. And then we
have Stadt
Chuck: City.
Judith: And Land
Chuck: Country.
Judith: Finally they might want to know your Beruf
Chuck: Profession.
Judith: And at the end you should put your Unterschrift
Chuck:

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Signature.
Judith: “Unterschrift” literally means under writing. Now this is a lot of words. You
should look up these words in the lesson notes and familiarize yourself with them
especially if you think that you will need to fill out a form in German soon.

VOCAB LIST

Chuck: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. T he first word we shall see
is?
Judith: sein
Chuck: T o be.
Judith: sein
Chuck: Next.
Judith: Engländer
Chuck: Englishman.
Judith: Engländer
Chuck: Next.
Judith: Amerikaner
Chuck: American.
Judith: Amerikaner
Chuck: Next.
Judith: aus
Chuck: From.
Judith: aus
Chuck: Next.
Judith: welcher
Chuck: Which.
Judith: welcher
Chuck: Next.
Judith: Stadt
Chuck: T own or city.
Judith: Stadt. Stadt, that is feminine.
Chuck: Next.
Judith: in
Chuck: In or into.
Judith: in
Chuck: Next.
Judith: neben
Chuck: Next to.
Judith: neben
Chuck: Next.
Judith: oder
Chuck: Or.
Judith:

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oder
Chuck: Next.
Judith: von
Chuck: Of or from.
Judith: von

KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES

Chuck: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from
this lesson.
Judith: T he first thing we should look at is that if you're saying „Ich bin Amerikaner“,
you’re using the word for the person, you're not using the adjective. T he adjective
would be „amerikanisch“. By the same token „Engländer“ is the word for a person
from England and English is the adjective.
Chuck: If you're Judith, note that you usually have to indicate that in German when
you're mentioning your nationality or profession. Fortunately it's enough to add the
ending “IN” in the vast majority of cases. Could you give some examples for that?
Judith: Well, in this case you would say „Amerikanerin“ or „Engländerin“

LESSON FOCUS

Chuck: T he focus of this lesson is the conjugation of sein part one.

Judith: In this lesson, we've seen a few forms of the verb to be which is irregular in
German like in most languages.
Chuck: T he infinitive is „sein“ so „sein“ is the equivalent of to be.
Judith: T hen we have ich bin
Chuck: I am.
Judith: er ist
Chuck: He is.
Judith: Or you could also say er ist and then of course wir sind
Chuck: We are.
Judith: And Sie sind
Chuck: T hey are.
Judith: Sie sind can also mean you, formal, are. We'll learn the rest a little later. Each of
these podcasts is very short and we don't want to overwhelm you.
Chuck: Well, that just about does it for today. Like our podcast?
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you next week.
Judith: Danke fürs Zuhören und bis nächste Woche!

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