Asking people for directions in German | Easy German 2
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- Learn German with Easy German: Simon asks people in Münster, Germany about the way to non existing Beringstreet :)
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Host: Simon
Camera/ Edit: Janusz
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The Language Situation scenes are supposed to complement any regular language course by providing a sort of language "street experience".
You can see "real" people talking their "real" language. They are all quite taken by surprise in this unusual situation (somebody asking silly questions) and they react very spontaneously.
Könnt ihr mir bitte den Weg zur
Beringsstraße sagen?
Can you tell me the way to the Beringstraße, please ?
Zur Beringstraße?
Sorry, keine Ahnung.
To the Beringstraße? Sorry, no idea.
Schade. OK. Tschüss.
What a pitty. O.K. Goodbye.
Hallo. Weisst du den Weg zur Beringstraße?
Hello. Do you know the way to the Beringstraße?
Nein, ich komme nicht von hier, .
Entschuldigung
No, i'm not living here, sorry
Schade, schönen Tag noch.
Gleichfalls, tschüss
What a pitty, beautiful day,yet.
Likewise, goodbye.
Guten Tag.
Good day.
Können Sie mir den Weg zur
Beringstraße sagen?
Can you tell me the way to the Beringstraße,please?
Kenne ich nicht. Wir sind nicht aus Münster. Wir sind nur Besucher.
I don't know. We aren't living here. We stay just for visit.
Na gut, dann wünsche ich Ihnen noch einen schönen Tag.
Well then i wish you a beautiful day, yet.
Zur Beringstraße? Ja, aber wenn ich einen Atlas bei mir hab
To the Beringstraße? Yes but only if i got a map with me.
watch the "About this Video" text on the right side. All the translations are in there.
@uschelseagirl
visit our German Language Forum on our site solarnet tv :)
the transcript and translation is in the info box. Please check our blog: easy-languages (dot) org for 30 more Easy German videos (with double subtitles)
Very clever way of teaching German and entertaining. Much more entertaining than sitting in a classroom with the nose stuck in a book. Glücklicherweise habe ich es in Hamburg gelernt da ich dort 12.5 Jahre gelebt habe. Auf dieser Weise kann ich zuhören und es üben.
What's nice about those people is that many of them don't really care about the reason why they've been ask. They just answer plain and simple.
I don't really know. Google "learn German" and I believe you will find loads of it ;)
@cashernandes1
I'm Polish but living since many years in Germany. I do the camera and editing for this serial and also the enthusiasm for experiencing German is mine because it's an foreign language for me just like for you.
This is the info text to the video. In the new version of youtube it's right beneath the video. You can click it to enlarge it.
Easy German - Lesson 2
Könnt ihr mir den Weg zur Beringstraße sagen? - Can you tell me the way to Bering Street (Strait)?
Nee, keine Ahnung. - Nope, no idea.
Schade. OK. Tschüss. - Pity. OK. Bye.
Guten Tag. Hallo. Weisst du den Weg zur Beringstraße? - Good day. Hello. Do you know the way to the Bering Strait?
Nein, ich komme nicht von hier, Entschuldigung. - No, I'm not from here, sorry.
Schade, schönen Tag noch. Gleichfalls. - Too bad nice day. You too.
Guten Tag. Guten Tag. Können Sie mir den Weg zur Beringstraße sagen?
Kenne ich nicht. Wir sind nicht aus Münster. Wir sind nur Besucher. -
I do not know. We are not from Münster. We are only visitors.
Na gut, dann wünsche ich Ihnen noch einen schönen Tag. - Well, then I wish you a nice day.
Zur Beringstraße? Ja, aber wenn ich einen Atlas bei mir hab. - The Bering Strait? Yes, but if I have with me an atlas.
Thank you!!!
+Florin-Mihai Iliescu VIELEN DANK!
Nun, Atlas - gute Antwort. Meine Antwort wäre wohl: "Einfach ein paar Tausende Kilometer nach Osten oder Westen, dann sollte man wohl in deren Nähe kommen. Oder meinen Sie vielleicht eine Behringstraße in einer anderen Kommune?"
Dank.
yes, but in German it's "Bering Street" so everybody (but the old man) thinks she would mean some street in the city
tschüss - bye
na gut - well then
ja - yes
you find the translation in the info box =>
Der Witz war dass wir nach der "Beringstraße" gefragt haben - es ist aber gar keine Straße sondern eine Meerenge zwischen der östlichsten Stelle Asiens und dem westlichsten Punkt Amerikas :D Nur der Opa am Ende des Videos wusste es :D
@kayddle
I invite you to our Forum on solarnet tv. Go to the Introduce Yourself forum first and write us a bit about yourself :)
Good job Easy German team, you inspire people! Thank you for your time and dedication to help people learn German everywhere. I am now really motivated to learn German thanks to your videos! Keep posting please :)
It will. In fact German is a very slow, comfortable to understand language. Only it's dialects are difficult.
ich habe alle verstehen ! i'm learning German by myself since 2 months..
@idiomasaur I haven't been to England but backpacking around Germany was a really great experience thanks to the wonderful German people.
The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив) is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, the easternmost point (169°43' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point (168°05' W) of the North American continent, with latitude of about 65° 40' North, slightly south of the polar circle.
it a subjunctive, check the word "können" on Wiktionary.
Die Videos sind echt, pure Tagesleben. Die Menschen sehen sehr locker aus. Gott sei Dank, dass es RUclips gibt, dadurch man vieles zu Hause lernen kann. 😊 lm Großen und Ganzen mag ich Sprachen und benutze Videos von RUclips als 🔍 Lupe. Es bereitet mir immer Spaß bei jedem Video etwas lnteressantes zu entdecken. 🎉 Danke für all diese Mühe. ❤
Vielen Dank! ❤️
don't worry, it will become better and better every day you have some contact with it. There are a lot of German language vids on youtube :)
EG Guy: Can you tell me the way to the bering strait? (sounds identical to bering street each time he says it. they all think he is asking for a street except the last guy)
girl: to bering street, no, no idea.
eg guy: shame, bye
0:12
eg guy: good day, hello, do you know the way to the bering strait?
girl: no, i'm not from here, sorry.
eg guy: shame, still have a good day even though.
0:18
eg guy: good day , good day, Can you tell me the way to the bering strait?
guy: i dont know, we're from Munster, we're visitors.
Eg guy: well good, i stil wish you a beautiful day.
0:30
EG Guy: Can you tell me the way to the bering strait?
old guy: to the bering strait? yeah but only if i had an atlas with me
in the info box there's a translation
Ich bin hier angekommen, nach dem Podcast von Easy German 226 ( unglaublich 15 Jahre von Easy German )
@Gerorokanchou
that's a good question :) it is also like this with my Polish videos :)
The volume seems a little bit low even with my speakers turned all the way up. But still the videos are very helpful. I like have the written German dialogue to match with what they are saying. Really nice to hear a variety of natural responses by native Germans.
@Fersomling
This is what it's all about. We help each other. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
One great perk of being in this age!
Ich bin ein Chinese.Ich glaube,dass die Video sehr hilf ist.Danke.
Those people were friendly, because they been `bummeln´ (means to walk openminded without hurry through the streets whilst looking for interesting things). If you do that in Berlin at 8 a.m. on Monday, responses will be much more impressive/rude/unpolite/threatening.
I wonder what the Germans think when they can't understand English. Because I am fascinated to hear them talk. It sounds so new and interesting.
15 years ago!
Damn!
Time flies!
I´m a spanish-speaker, and it´s way easier to learn some german from english texts rather than from spanish books, so I guess they have many things in common.
Thanks for efforts.. nice way to learn German :-)
Vielen Danke
Thanks for these videos! Native Herman speakers speaking German in real life situations! Love it!
simple
I am at it right now. And especially for you we'll have a host from Brazil flown in ;D
Super Idee! Gegen die Trockenheit der Lehrwerke für Deutsch!
Vor 16 jahren ..WOW altes Video, aber sehr gut.
They have English translations in the notes. Click "more."
Hey I love these videos and they are a great addition to learning German the normal way. The spontaneity is good and it is very much a real life situation you are highlighting. You should contact some German language schools and have them refer their students to your videos here on youtube.
I don't understand why there is no English subtitle, how are we supposed to learn?
Actually "tschüss" has it's origin in the very north of Germany. In the area around Hamburg.
But it's a common greeting now.
Actually I would have thought that it's uncommon in the south Bavaria, Austria, Swabia, but I'm not sure.
@skilane14
I keep on inviting you to our German Language Forum on our site solarnet tv. This is a good place to get more experience and meet native speakers.
I'm Polish by birth but I've lived many years in Germany now and I do speak German quite passably (but I still learn something new every now and then)
These videos are excellent! Thank you for posting!
@singlegoldenorb Google for the FSI German course, it's the US foreign service institute course, but its in public domain now.
@spacehopperballs
thank you for teaching me, I really appreciate it :)
You're not originally from Germany?
Bravo. Excellent German. ;)
Think of the nasal sounds of individual letters or of Dip or Tripthongs (combinations of letters of 2 = Dipthong, or 3 = Tripthong). One word for instance is the name of German city ''Köln'', the ''n'' is the nasal sound. Another city could be ''Frankfurt am Main'' where each word contains a nasal. The reason I would describe German as being a highly Nasal language is that relative to some other languages it uses a lot. German conjugations and conjunctions have a lot of nasal additions to words.
I think it´s a lesson on pronounciation. That´s why it isn´t translated, just to ensure the viewer is concentrating on how to say what you read.
dein Deutsch ist toll :)
the laugh at the end LOL
@Gerorokanchou because there are many foreigners in Germany who want to learn the language better :)) I think so.
My first language is Polish. German is relatively simple. I hope we can help you. Maybe you want to visit our German Language Forum on solarnet-international org.
Well, in the US, learning languages is wierd. Since Mexico is near, many people are really focused on learning Spanish which isn't that hard. But the school I went to required German. I've been taking it since 4th grade, and I'm in 11th now and I still dont understand it that well. But I'm sure if I was in a different environment I would have caught on alot quicker and I would be very fluent in it by now...
But the languages aren't that different at all!
And your English is awesome by the way.
Ich bin Amerikaner und das Video ist sehr hilfreich für mir. Mein Aussprache ist schlecht.
Vielen Danke!
bist du verrückt? Toll ist ja ein Kompliment. At least they made an attempt to reply in German.. @magauchsein: dieses Video ist echt toll. ich finde diese Videos prima!
I promise we will :D
Ich komme aus Mexiko Stadt :) studiere an der Goethe institut und ich finde deine videos super!:D danke :)
@jacarandaxia
really? i am german and everytime i hear other languages i think "wow. that's fast. german is sooo slow"
but thank you, you made my day happier ;D
waooooooooooo you are a genuis! I so can't believe you've done it!
An Urffffes!!!
Das hilft,weil die gleiche Phrase staendig wiederholt wird,und man so Vokabeln lernt.
Und ausserdem wird das Ganze hier noch in einem realistischen Umfeld gezeigt.
So lernt man ne Sprache effektiv.
Brilliant!
@Cronkonium German is a very throat-based language which is probably why you get that impression. An american aquaintance of mine told me once, that for him even when german couples talk to each other it sounds like they're giving orders all the time. :D
@Karash770 Agreed it just sounds that way overall, however I had never encountered that with any German speakers I have met so far. However that is a very small number, none the less I have found that the posturing is what gets me most. I know that German is a more gluteral language, and in fact the first differences between West Germanic and the other groups was the loss of many nasal sounds and soon many gluteral ones. I think the posturing is simply they are in a busy place, so I understand.
@Fersomling ** I'm Polish but have been living in Germany for many years :)
Danke !
These language lessons are great. It would be perfect if you could have English translations at the bottom, but I'm not picky!
the hardest part for me is there weren't subtitles or english translation for the sentence so i had to look up for each words in the dictionary. a little bit unpractical, but it's ok.
me too i don't ... because i watch so many animated comedy like the simpsons or south park. it covers the slang and most of the common set phrases....
@magauchsein
"I'm Polish but living since many years in Germany." There are some mistakes in this sentence. It is never "since many years," but in this case it must be "for many years."
Better: "I'm Polish but have been living for many years in Germany."
Perhaps you can correct my German sometime.
grazie mille!
Danke schoen !
@sxmvv
fail, right would be:
Ich bin ein Chinese. Ich glaube, dass das Video sehr hilfreich ist. Danke.
@magauchsein This is one reason why I want to learn reason. I thought it was slow but these people talk fast (for my ears).
@BlancaMCF In der deutschen Sprache hat "Jungs" ungefähr die selbe Bedeutung wie "guys" in der englischen Sprache. Ausserdem: Wir sagen einfach "Peruanerin". Vielen Dank für Deine Mühe, wir freuen uns über Jeden, der gerne Deutsch lernt! :-)
@magauchsein You could also say - But i have lived in Germany since ( the year)
Ok thank you.
@Mtbfanro One thing after watching a few of these videos I have noticed is when people introduce themselves or say good-bye (Tschuss, bis bald, usw (usw is basically an acronym but means etcetera)) they are incredibly nice. However whist speaking they often sound very rude, some of them are nice but many sound rude to me. I am Canadian and I find it very hard to tell if Germans are angry because many speak with the same intonation all the time, also I find they mumble hard just like us too.
Thanks, you never stop learning XD
Beautiful language ;)
Viel Glück und Grüße!
@daszzo lol I completely agree, I've studying for 4 months and i find it very hard to understand what they say without reading the subtitles...
Almost a decade later you must be really good by now?
@daszzo German itself is hard ( a huge learning curve and some germans will tell you this themselves). Though, these videos wont be so hard once you get some experience.
You're just saying that because it is your first language (well, I assume that). Honestly, even though English is my primary language, I would agree that it is relatively hard to learn. There are so many irregular words.
@Mesodera Yes.. haha,, when i was in High school i learnt Deutsch, and it's really hard to pronounce the word Entschuldigung .. Really,, hahaha but now, of course i remember it... hehehe ich liebe Deutsch.. (y)
Need English subtitles please, cause I don't understand all the dialogue
@jacarandaxia no not really ^^
i think we have a to slowly languages xD
hmm... It sounds quite cool the way they speak, I wanna learn German =D
Guten idea da in der Video.
Thanks. :-)
I know the language spoken in Germany and Austria is the same and there is no "Austrian language". My question had to do with the origin of the word and its usage. I should have made that clear.
@kbillysupersounds Not exactly. He's making fun of people by asking for the Bering Strait. „Straße“ ist ambiguous for «road» as well as for «strait» in German.
Ich finde Deutsche ganz einfacher als Englisch zu verstehen wenn man spricht.
At least the way a word is written , it is also pronounced...---not the same for english.
Cheers from Italy :)
This is such a great idea, I love these videos. =)
Wow, how do people NOT know that? And I can't believe there were people who thought it was a street specific to Munster... XD
You should've kept asking people until someone got it correct magauchsein.
@DrKillaser Somewhere in Münster apparently.
we have them in the infotext :)
Vielen Dank.~~
the grammar is extreme hard but and the language to
May I know the name of the song that sounds in the video 🦻
friendly in frankfurt? i have travelled all over germany and this was the one city that i didnt meet friendly people.. havent been back again...