2013年9月10日星期二

German Course Note 2

The course start with a kind of review practice which we ask each other stuff from last class, then to how to ask about more detail of a person.

Was/Wie ist Ihr/dein Familiename/Vorname/Wohnort?
Was/Wie ist Ihre/deine Straße/Telefon/Adresse/Anschrift?

These two are very similar. Asking about family name, given name, address and so on. The big difference is Ihr vs. Ihre. They all mean "your". The difference lies in the subjective, they are of different genders. And when apply definite articles to them, it might be die, der, das according. I don't really know which one is which. But, those who should have "der" in front of them, you can put "Ihr" in front of them. And for "die" and "das" words, you should add an "e" and make "Ihr" "Ihre". The same with "dein", it's only inoffizell.

Buchstabieren Sie, bitte! (Please spell it)  IMPERATIV

When asking about spelling and telephone number, we have to learn to spell and count. German has 26 Buchstaben (letters same as English) and 4 Sonderzeichen ( ä ö ü ß, which English does not have). The letters sound  a bit different, takes time to get used to it. We even heard an ABC rap, it's like back in middle school. Luckily we don't have to learn to sing it.

Numbers are quite different from English, you can find the similarity, but not very much. And they say 21 like one and twenty, which is not that straightforward. Of course German are better than French in counting, in France, to say 88 you have to do the math and say 88 as some plus some plus some. Really stupid. So here are the numbers.

0 null  1 eins  2 zwei  3 drei  4 vier  5 fünf  6 sechs  7 sieben  8 acht  9 neun  10 zehn  11 elf  12 zwölf
13 dreizehn  14 vierzehn  15 fünfzehn   16 sechzehn  17 siebzehn  18 achtzehn  19 neunzehn  20 zwanzig
21 einundzwanzig  27 siebenundzwanzig 30 dreißig  60 sechzig  70 siebzig  100 hundert  1000 tausend

We practice a lot on numbers. Like phone number, price, plate license, math.

-Wie teuer? (how much)
-Das kostet XX €.

-Vier plus sieben ist elf. (4 + 7 = 11)
-Elf minus vier ist sieben.

Pronunciation 
Most of German look exactly they sound. So pronunciation is pretty important in German. Unfortunately I suck at it. I can't tell a lot of phonemes apart. And I'm not fully understand the rules.

EI  has the sound of "I" in English
s  has the sound of "z" in English,
ö  no corresponding sound in English, to pronunciate it, you should have the lip like when you are try to say 'o', and the tongue like you want to say 'e'
ü  another deutsch phoneme, have the lip like 'u' and the tongue like 'i'

Vocabulary
feuer (fire)  Ausländer (foreigner)  langsam (slowly)  noch einmal ( once again )  der buchstabe
Adresse=Anschrift  zahlen (numbers)  teuer (expensive)  Kennzeichen (license plate)  Hanse
die Vorwahlnummer  billig  arbeiter  etwa=circa (almost)   Zum Beispiet (for example)  schon (already)
schön (beautifully)  schaltjahr 

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