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Interested in an iPhone App? Hi everybody, as you might know there is an Android app containing the new lessons, a vocabulary trainer, different interactive quizs, etc.Over the last weeks I got quite a few mails asking me for an iPhone version. As you can see however I am one of the last (one might think) PC users out there and iPhone apps can only be developed on a Mac. And you all know what those silver beautys cost.So, here is the deal: If enough of you want an iPhone version, buy me a mac. Seriously, there is a don ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lesson 10 - Weihnachtszeit This weekend is Christimas, so today is a good opportunity to learn some "Weihnachts" vocabularynight die Nachtchristmas Weihnachtentree der Baumfir tree der Tannenbaumthe present das Geschenkto give a present etwas schenkenfamily die Familiea feast das FestmahlAdvent der AdventAdvent wreath der AdventskranzIn preparation for Weihnachten (Christmas), many German families celebrate Ad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lesson 11 - Die Zukunft Lesson 11 - Die ZukunftThe year is ending so this is a great time to learn about the future tense - about "die Zukunft". In German to say that you will do something you just need to use the correct form of the verb "werden" and ad the verb you want to use in its basic form.So, to say that you will read a book you just say "ich werde ein Buch lesen".ich werdedu wirstsie wirdwir werdenihr werdetsie werdenTry to saywe will read a bookwe will take the busyou (sing) will go shopp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lesson 09 - Verb Drills In todays German Lesson I introduce the verb drill program included in the Android app. Give it a try and let me know if it works for you . . .Here are the verbs from todays lesson:lese,liest,liest,lesen,lest,lesenwill,willst,will,wollen,wollt,wollengehe,gehst,geht,gehen,gehen,gehthabe,hast,hat,haben,habt,habenbin,bist,ist,sind,seid,sindnehme,nimmst,nimmt,nehmen,nehmt,nehmenfahre,fährst,fährt,fahren,fahrt,fahrenspreche,sprichst,spricht,sprechen,sprecht,sprechenmuss,musst,muss,müssen,müs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lesson 08 - Lebensmittel This is a recycled lesson from the podcast about food related words and there is a PDF file with most of the words. Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 006 - German-Podcast.de: Lesson 06 - Wochentage und MonateMonday MontagTuesday DienstagWednesday MittwochThursday DonnerstagFriday FreitagSaturday SamstagSunday SonntagJanuary JanuarFebruary FebruarMarch MärzApril AprilMay MaiJune JuniJuly JuliAugust AugustSeptember SeptemberOctober OktoberNovember NovemberDecember DezemberUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 003 - German-Podcast.de: Geld und Zahlen German Lesson 04 - Geld und Zahlen moneydas GeldEURder EuroCHder Frankenhow much is the book?Wieviel kostet das Buch?Some number exercisesLuzern, 17.12.2011Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 003 - German-Podcast.de: Kaffee bestellen In todays German lesson we will learn how to order einen Kaffee oder einen Tee.By the way, the audio file from lesson 002 was missing. I updated the link. If you don't find it in your Podcast program, come over to the blog at:http://german-podcast.blogspot.com/Sorry for the inconvenience :-(milkdie Milchcoffeeder Kaffeeteader Teeto drinktrinkenpleasebittein two hoursin zwei StundenLuzern, 11.12.2011Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 002 - German-Podcast.de: Ich, Du, Er German Lesson 2 from the Android app. This is actually based on an old session.I, you, he/she/it, we, you, theyich, du, er/sie/es, wir, ihr, siemy name ismein Name istwhat is your name (informal)?wie heisst du?what is your name (formal)wie heissen sie?thanksdankeYou can find more about this at this podcast lesson (PDF): http://german-podcast.blogspot.com/2007/12/055-learn-to-speak-german-sich.htmlUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 001 - German-Podcast.de: Introductions The first German lesson starts with basic introductions.If you have an Android phone you might want to try the Learn German Podcast App. It contains a vocabulary trainer with all the words and the audio files. . .Luzern, 9.12.2011Stephan WiesnerI amich binmy name ismein Name isthellohallogood morningGuten Morgengood dayGuten Taggood eveningGuten Abendeveningder Abendthe computer scientistder Informatikerthe bakerder Bäckergoodbyeauf WiedersehenUse this free podcast to learn to speak German ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Android App (BETA) I just released a beta version of the learn German Android App. Take a look at it, give me feedback and I will try to get it final in the christmas holidays at the latest.You can find a list of my Android Apps here:https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Stephan+WiesnerIntroductionThe GermanPodcast.de app provides a German teaching course. It is based on the popular GermanPodcast I maintained for some years (and have discontinued for the moment).The lessons contain an audio file, some voca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 116 - Learn to speak German - Body Mass Index In todays German lesson you will learn about the BMI - Body Mass Index.You will learn how to calculate it and the German vocabulary connected to it.After this lesson you can go to the Android market and download an App that I wrote (search for BMI). It can calculate your BMI, your WtHR and the amount of daily calories you burn.weight = das Gewichtbody = der Körpermass = die Massecalculation = die Berechnungto calculate = berechnento measure  = messensize = die Grössescales = die Waag ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 115 - Learn to speak German - Gute Vorsätze Frohes neues Jahr! In der heutigen Lektion dreht sich alles um gute Vorsätze fürs neue Jahr.Ein paar Vokabeln für euch:Happy new year = frohes neues Jahrwish = der Wunschdiet = die Diät, eine Diät machenloose weight = abnehmenweight = das Gewichtstop smoking = mit dem Rauchen aufhörenexercise more = mehr Sport machenholiday = der Urlaub, die Ferien work = die Arbeit, arbeitenmobile phone = das Handy, das Nattel (Swiss slang)This picture shows one of my new Android apps. It i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 113 - Learn to speak German - Vocabulary and the Android Quiz App Todays German lession contains 25 words to improve your German vocabulary.And I present you my first app for Android. A little quiz that you can use to check the words presented today.If you own an Android smartphone: go to market and search for Learn German quiz and you should be able to download it. Let me know if it works for you (or if it does not!) and what you think of it.The picture shows the famous Matterhorn in Switzerland. I took the picture at dawn when we climbed Mt. Alphubel in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 112 - Learn to speak German - Do you own a smartphone? Winter has come to Switzerland. Snow and ice (and closed airports) and long evenings at home. So this is a good time to start some new projects. I am currently thinking about resuming the podcast and I would like to write some small helper applications for smartphones. Word trainer, small vocabulary games and the like.So, if you own a smartphone, let me know which one. Please fill in the poll on the podcast homepage athttp://german-podcast.blogspot.com/Weisse Grüsse aus Luzern,StephanUse t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 111 - Learn to speak German - Papiliorama In todays German lesson I will show you a short film taken in the Papiliorama at Kerzers, near Bern in Switzerland.You can see a kind of indoor jungle and a lot of butterflies. On a cold day like today it is a perfect way to soak in the hot air and get a feel of summer. The Papiliorama is a fantastic place for children as well.butterfly - der Schmetterlingjungle - der Jungleplant - die Pflanzebird - der Vogelfish - der Fischmonkey - der AffeThey even have a large room with night active ani ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 110 - Learn to speak German - Reisebericht Chile und Ojos del Salado Ich bin zurück aus Chile und erzähle euch in der heutigen Folge, wie es uns in Chile ergangen ist und vor allem natürlich, wie wir den Ojos del Salado, den höchsten Vulkan der Welt, erlebt haben.Ein schriftlicher Reisebericht vom Ojos del Salado kann hier nachgelesen werden:http://www.hikr.org/tour/post20538.htmlEin Lama vor dem Vulkan ParinacottaFarbige Berge im Lauca Nationalpark (hier bei knapp 5000m)Im Altiplano braucht es Spanischkenntnisse, um auch mal nach dem Weg zu fragen...Die ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 109 - Learn to speak German - Farben - Colors In todays lesson of German-Podcast.de, the christmas lesson, I will teach you some colorfull words.red bluegreenyellowblackwhitebrownorangegreygoldsilver.........................rotblaugrüngelbschwarzweissbraunorangegraugoldsilberLuzern, 25.12.2009Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 108 - Learn to Speak German - Ferien in Chile In todays German lesson I will tell you about my trip to Chile in January. Sorry about the sound quality. I still could not make my soundcard work properly so I used my movile phone and converted the files to mp3 files for the upload to itunes.This might actually be a good exercise for you to get a feeling about how it would be to talk to somebody on the phone . . . .In Chile we will start in Putre and the Lauca National Parc in the north of Chile. For more information. You can see some pic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 107 - Learn to Speak German - Schneeschuhlaufen (Video) Here is a short video taken on a Schneeschuh Tour in the Berner Oberland video taken on a Schneeschuh Tour in the Berner Oberland last weekend. We climbed Mt. Wistätthorn (2360m) next to Lenk. It was very cold but luckily we did not have any wind, so the cold was easy to stand :-)I have a problem with my laptop soundcard and can't record any audio files. That will be fixed soon, though. Hopefully...Bern, 14.12.2009Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 106 - Learn to Speak German - Am Lagerfeuer In this lesson of German-Podcast.de I present you a short video taken in the Swiss Alps last weekend. I went camping with my girlfriend as part of our training for our trip to Chile in January.As you can imagine, the hot "Abendbrot" tasted wonderful :-)Bern, 30.11.2009Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 105 - Learn to Speak German - Chapter 4 Todays German podcast lesson continues with the book. I read from chapter 4.Sorry for not posting for three weeks. I had a ton of work to do at the office, got a cold and started planing my trip to Chile/Peru in January.Next week I will go on a business trip to Wien ( Vienna ), so here is a picture of the most famous thing Wien has to offer::-)Lucerne, 12.11.2009Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 104 - Learn to Speak German - Urlaub in Südfrankreich I am back from my holiday in the south of France and will tell you a little bit about what I have seen and done there in todays Podcast.Die Madonna in Le Puy in der AuvergneEin Blick auf den einsamen Leuchtturm am Mittelmeer Strand nahe Montpellier.Stephan Wiesner auf dem Le Pont du Gard et l'Aqueduc de Nîmes.Eine der typischen Kühe der AuvergneEin Blick in den Käse-Keller in RoquefortUnsere herrliche Unterkunft in der Morgensonne.Das Amphitheather in Nimes.Ein Blick nach aussen vom Pap ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 103 - Learn to Speak German - Chapter 3 (second lesson) Todays German lesson continues with the book. I read from chapter 3 and provide you some information about the Swiss railway system as well.Here are the flashcards with the vocabulary.Here you can see a picture of the Freiburger Alpen And here is autumn in Switzerland. Die Laubbäume sind wunderschön eingefärbt :-)The first video shows me at the start of the bike tour, near ThunThe second video was taken at 1600m in the Freiburger Alpen Zürich, 09.10.2009Stephan WiesnerUse this free podc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 102 - Learn to Speak German - Grammar Possessivpronomen Todays German lesson covers some grammar: Die Possessivpronomen.What are Possessivpronomen?Die deutschen Possesivpronomen geben ein Besitzverhältnis oder eine Beziehung an. Es sind:Vokabeln:das Haus – the housedie Katze – the catBonus question: Can you guess what flag is displayed on todays picture?mein Hausmeine Katzedein Hausdeine Katzesein Hausseine Katzeihr Hausihre Katzeunser Hausunsere Katzeeuer Hauseure KatzeThe neutral sex uses the same Possessivpronomen as the male sex (mein H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 101 - Learn to Speak German- Chapter 1 In todays German lesson I read an excerpt from the book "Welcome to Switzerland", provide you with a number of new flashcards with German vocabulary and tell you how beautiful the autumn in Switzerland is (wie schön der Herbst in der Schweiz ist) . . .The next lesson is already in the making and it will teach you all you need to know about Possesivpronomen (mein Haus, meine Katze, etc.) . . .Die Bilder sind vom Flughafen Zürich . I sometimes change train there on my way to work. That alwa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100 - Learn to Speak German - A new Beginning Welcome to German Podcast.de dem Podcast zum Deutsch lernen.All your mails and comments made me change my mind about the German podcast: I will continue with it!This lesson is not a German lesson, but an introduction. I will continue the next few lessons with text excerpts and exercises from the book Learn German with a story, which you can buy at amazon or lulu.com (link on the homepage), so you might want to order it. Its only 2.5 EUR and available as a download or printed book.Please dow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 074 - Learn to Speak German - The End This is the last session of German-Podcast.de. I just don't have the time for all my interests and need to cut back on some of them and as there is already such a large amount of material available for you to pratice your German . . . well, I will not continue with the podcast.Lucerne, 26.01.2009Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 073 - Learn to Speak German - Urlaub in Ägypten / Holidays in Egypt This morning I arrived in Zürich - in the cold and gray. The temperature was about 25 °C lower than in Egypt where I spend the last two weeks.Today I will talk about my holiday in egypt, providing you with a number of useful vocabulary and sentences.First of all: Many thanks to all of you who wrote me about the podcast. I did not access the Internet from Egypt and am very surprised (and pleased) about the number and the quality of emails you wrote me! We will come back to that later.I spe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 072 - Learn to Speak German - Wo soll es hingehen? The future of German-Podcast.de? Heut haben wir schon die Folge 72 von German-Podcast.de. Zwei Jahre.Today we are at lesson 72 of German-Podcast.de. Two years.Another year is ending and that is always a good point in time to reflect on the past - and the future.So, what do I do with the Podcast?Let me think what YOU want it to be.What do you expect from it,how are you learning German and why. For how long. How much time do you spend on the learning, what other material do you use, etc.I will spend Sylvester in Egypt, with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 071 - Learn to Speak German - German Survival Phrases - Wo ist der Bahnhof? Most cities in Germany or Switzerland have a train station and in most cases this is located at or near the center of town. So, even if you do not travel by train, it is always a good idea to know where the train station is located.That is whywe will learn to ask for directions to the train station (Bahnhof)or other points of interest today.train station - der Bahnhofwhere - wois - istcity hall - das Rathausmetro - die U-Bahnleft - linksright - rechtsThe mountains on the photo are called Gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 070 - Learn to Speak German - German Survival Phrases - Bitte und Danke Heute wollen wir endlich mal wieder eine Anfängerlektion durchgehen.German Survival Phrasessoll eine kleine Serie mit sehr grundlegenden Dingen werden. Ein paar Worte Deutsch für den Urlaub, genug um das Eis zu brechen und zu zeigen, dass ihr einen "effort" macht.Today we are back to some basics. German Survival Phrases is going to be a small series of very basic phrases. Just enough to show that you made an effort.please - bitteyou are welcome - bitte, gerne geschehenthanks - dankethank ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 070 - Learn to Speak German - Ein Besuch in Wien / a visit to Vienna Vor kurzem war ich für ein Wochenende in Wien (Vienna)und morgen fliege ich noch mal für ein paar Tage hin. Grund genug, euch ein wenig über diese schöne Stadt zu erzählen.Wien ist die Hauptstadt vonÖsterreich und hat rund 1.7 Millionen Einwohner.Wien ist eine sehr bekannte Stadt, die von vielen Touristen besucht wird. Wie man auf diesem Bild schön sieht, kann man das zu Fuss, im Bus oder in der Pferdekutsche machen...Zu einem richtigen Besuch gehört natürlich die berühmte Sacher- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 069 - Marathon in Luzern und Galgenraten Zwei Themen habe ich heute.DenMarathon in Luzern26.10.2008 und das SpielGalgenraten.Das Spiel ist ein kleines Programm in C#, dass ich geschrieben habe. Es ist zwar nur sehr klein, setzt aber evtl. updates von Microsoft voraus, so dass es nur auf aktuellen Systemen laufen wird.Im Verzeichnis gibt es eine Textdatei (vocis.txt), in der die Worte enthalten sind. Ihr könnt sie also einfach austauschen. Probiert es einfach mal aus .-)Am 26.10.2008 ist der diesjährige Marathon in Luzern. Das is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 069 - Marathon in Luzern und Galgenraten Zwei Themen habe ich heute. Den Marathon in Luzern 26.10.2008 und das Spiel Galgenraten.Das Spiel ist ein kleines Programm in C#, dass ich geschrieben habe. Es ist zwar nur sehr klein, setzt aber evtl. updates von Microsoft voraus, so dass es nur auf aktuellen Systemen laufen wird.Im Verzeichnis gibt es eine Textdatei (vocis.txt), in der die Worte enthalten sind. Ihr k�nnt sie also einfach austauschen. Probiert es einfach mal aus .-)Am 26.10.2008 ist der diesj�hrige Marathon in Luzern. Das ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 068 - Learn to Speak German - Zungenbrecher (tongue twister) EinZungenbrecherist eintonguetwister.Hier sind zwei Zungenbrecher:Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische.Fischt Fischers Fritze frische Fische?Bierbrauer Bauer braut braunes Bier, braunes Bier braut Bierbrauer Bauer.Nebenbei stelle ich weitere Wörter aus dem täglichen Deutsch Newsletter vonhttp://www.bitesizedlanguages.comvor und sage was zum Wetter.The picture shows me right before we start to climb theWitenwasserenstock(3082m), which you see right behind me. Excellente Gratkletterei .-)L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 068 - Learn to Speak German - Zungenbrecher (tongue twister) Ein Zungenbrecher ist ein tongue twister.Hier sind zwei Zungenbrecher:Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische.Fischt Fischers Fritze frische Fische?Bierbrauer Bauer braut braunes Bier, braunes Bier braut Bierbrauer Bauer.Nebenbei stelle ich weitere W�rter aus dem t�glichen Deutsch Newsletter von http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com vor und sage was zum Wetter.The picture shows me right before we start to climb the Witenwasserenstock (3082m), which you see right behind me. Excellente Gratklettere ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 067 - Learn to Speak German - 1. August Nationalfeiertag Today is the first of August (again) and the legend says that Switzerland was founded on the first of August 1291. This story is depicted inFriedrich Schillers famous story about Wilhem Tell.You can find the whole text ofWilhelm Tell online at Project Gutenberg.Google has it as well, in Altdeutsch. Finally here is a link toWikipediawith details about Wilhelm Tell.Gessler:Nun Tell! Weil du den Apfel triffst vom BaumeAuf hundert Schritte, so wirst du deine KunstVor mir bewähren müssen - Nim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 067 - Learn to Speak German - 1. August Nationalfeiertag Today is the first of August (again) and the legend says that Switzerland was founded on the first of August 1291. This story is depicted in Friedrich Schillers famous story about Wilhem Tell.You can find the whole text of Wilhelm Tell online at Project Gutenberg.Google has it as well, in Altdeutsch. Finally here is a link to Wikipedia with details about Wilhelm Tell.Gessler: Nun Tell! Weil du den Apfel triffst vom Baume Auf hundert Schritte, so wirst du deine Kunst Vor mir bew�hren m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 066 - Learn to Speak German - Learn German with Bitesizedlanguages In today's lesson we will learn some German vocabulary.First I need to apologize, though, for not posting regularly anymore. I started a new job on the first of July and had to get into the new company. It is a IT consulting company in Zürich and I joined my first project for them inBernlast Monday, so again everything new and a lot to learn.Furthermore I met a wonderful woman, or met again, I should say, which did not quite turn out the way it should have, though.Finally: I joinedhttp://w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 066 - Learn to Speak German - Learn German with Bitesizedlanguages In today's lesson we will learn some German vocabulary. First I need to apologize, though, for not posting regularly anymore. I started a new job on the first of July and had to get into the new company. It is a IT consulting company in Z�rich and I joined my first project for them in Bern last Monday, so again everything new and a lot to learn. Furthermore I met a wonderful woman, or met again, I should say, which did not quite turn out the way it should have, though. Finally: I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 065 - Learn to Speak German - Die Zugspitze Diese Woche war ich das erste Mal in den Deutschen Alpen. Den höchsten Berg Deutschlands,die Zugspitze, haben wir auf der Route durch das Höllental erstiegen. Ausserdem waren wir noch in der Meiler Hütte (2374m) und haben ein herrliches Mittagessen gehabt. Zunächst wollen wirvon der Zugspitze aus den Jubiläumsgrad machen, aber die Besatzung des Münchner Haus oben auf der Zugspitze war so unfreundlich, dass wir es nicht über uns gebracht haben, dort zu schlafen.Der Aufstieg durch das ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 065 - Learn to Speak German - Die Zugspitze Diese Woche war ich das erste Mal in den Deutschen Alpen. Den h�chsten Berg Deutschlands, die Zugspitze, haben wir auf der Route durch das H�llental erstiegen. Ausserdem waren wir noch in der Meiler H�tte (2374m) und haben ein herrliches Mittagessen gehabt. Zun�chst wollen wir von der Zugspitze aus den Jubil�umsgrad machen, aber die Besatzung des M�nchner Haus oben auf der Zugspitze war so unfreundlich, dass wir es nicht �ber uns gebracht haben, dort zu schlafen.Der Aufstieg durch das H�lle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 064 - Learn to Speak German - Back in Switzerland Hallo zusammen,ich bin zur�ck in der Schweiz und in der neuen Wohnung eingezogen.Heute erz�hle ich daher erstmal ein wenig von meinem Sprachurlaub in Antigua, Guatemala, nat�rlich auf Deutsch. Die Kurzfassung: Ich war vier Wochen in Antigua, zwei in Honduras zum Tauchen und dann noch mal zwei in Antigua, weiter Spanisch lernen.Das obere Bild zeigt mein erstes Zimmer bei einer Gastfamilie in Antigua. Charm hat es gehabt, wenn es auch etwas eng war. Das untere Bild ist mein neues Daheim. Auc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 064 - Learn to Speak German - Back in Switzerland Hallo zusammen,ich bin zurück in der Schweiz und in der neuen Wohnung eingezogen.Heute erzähle ich daher erstmal ein wenig von meinem Sprachurlaub in Antigua, Guatemala, natürlich auf Deutsch.Die Kurzfassung: Ich war vier Wochen in Antigua, zwei in Honduras zum Tauchen und dann noch mal zwei in Antigua, weiter Spanisch lernen.Das obere Bild zeigt mein erstes Zimmer bei einer Gastfamilie in Antigua. Charm hat es gehabt, wenn es auch etwas eng war. Das untere Bild ist mein neues Daheim. Au ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 063 - Learn to Speak German - Guatemala Sorry for the long time without a post, tons of things to do.I am currently planning a trip to Guatemala for 8 to 10 weeks, so this is a good opportunity to talk about the country. Furthermore I have canceled the contract for my apartement and still need a place to store my stuff and somewhere to sleep when I am back...You can find out more about Guatemala athttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuatemalaGuatemalaist einStaatinZentralamerika, im Süden der HalbinselYucatán. Der Name Guatemala leite ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 063 - Learn to Speak German - Guatemala Sorry for the long time without a post, tons of things to do. I am currently planning a trip to Guatemala for 8 to 10 weeks, so this is a good opportunity to talk about the country. Furthermore I have canceled the contract for my apartement and still need a place to store my stuff and somewhere to sleep when I am back...You can find out more about Guatemala at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuatemalaGuatemala ist ein Staat in Zentralamerika, im S�den der Halbinsel Yucat�n. Der Name Guatemala ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 062 - Learn to Speak German - Hotel Reservationen Making a reservation in a hotelin a foreign country can often be a little difficult, especially when making the reservation by telephone. This lesson will give you the necessary tools to achieve this daunting task. We already had this topic in lessons 024 and 025, so you might want to take a look at the archive as well.The PDF(we have 8 pages today!) with the transcript, exercises, fotos, additional information, etc. Can be bought for only 49 Cents. It is in the same format as the PDF files ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 062 - Learn to Speak German - Hotel Reservationen Making a reservation in a hotel in a foreign country can often be a little difficult, especially when making the reservation by telephone. This lesson will give you the necessary tools to achieve this daunting task. We already had this topic in lessons 024 and 025, so you might want to take a look at the archive as well.The PDF (we have 8 pages today!) with the transcript, exercises, fotos, additional information, etc. Can be bought for only 49 Cents. It is in the same format as the PDF fil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 061 - Learn to Speak German - Beginner: Welcome to Switzerland Todays lesson is a beginners lesson, as the lastpollindicated that about 70% of you are studying German for less than 3 years.There is no PDF for todays lesson, but you can find a transcript of the text I read (and much more) atwww.LuLu.com, you can also order it fromAmazon, it might take a day or two longer to deliver, though.If you like it, please buy the book or pay for the download of the Ebook-version and write a nice comment at LuLu or at Amazon.com and if enough of you buy it, I will ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 061 - Learn to Speak German - Beginner: Welcome to Switzerland Todays lesson is a beginners lesson, as the last poll indicated that about 70% of you are studying German for less than 3 years.There is no PDF for todays lesson, but you can find a transcript of the text I read (and much more) at www.LuLu.com, you can also order it from Amazon, it might take a day or two longer to deliver, though.If you like it, please buy the book or pay for the download of the Ebook-version and write a nice comment at LuLu or at Amazon.com and if enough of you buy it, I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 060 - Learn to Speak German - Arzt und Fragen (in Vergangenheit) Today we talk about a very important topic:How to talk to a doctor. You will learn how to make an appointment and how to describe different symptoms.Lesson 050was about this topic as well, so you might want to check there for further exercise.There are two Podcasts concerningthe PDF transcript for today: Lessons 059 and 060.Todays picture shows the river Reuss with the Nölliturm in LucerneLucerne, 18.01.2008Stephan Wiesnerstephan@german-podcast.deUse this free podcast to learn to speak Ger ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 060 - Learn to Speak German - Arzt und Fragen (in Vergangenheit) Today we talk about a very important topic: How to talk to a doctor. You will learn how to make an appointment and how to describe different symptoms. Lesson 050 was about this topic as well, so you might want to check there for further exercise. There are two Podcasts concerning the PDF transcript for today: Lessons 059 and 060.Todays picture shows the river Reuss with the N�lliturm in Lucerne Lucerne, 18.01.2008Stephan Wiesnerstephan@german-podcast.deUse this free podcast to lear ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 060 - Learn to Speak German - Arzt und Fragen (in Vergangenheit) Today we talk about a very important topic: How to talk to a doctor. You will learn how to make an appointment and how to describe different symptoms. Lesson 050 was about this topic as well, so you might want to check there for further exercise. There are two Podcasts concerning the PDF transcript for today: Lessons 059 and 060.Todays picture shows the river Reuss with the N�lliturm in Lucerne Lucerne, 18.01.2008Stephan Wiesnerstephan@german-podcast.deUse this free podcast to lear ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 059 - Learn to Speak German - Beim Zahnarzt Todays German lesson is about how to make an appointment with a dentist. We will hear a telephone interview, then I will go to the dentist and she is going to examine me and give me a root canal treatment. Ouch!Lucerne, 13.01.2008Stephan Wiesnerstephan@german-podcast.deUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 058 - Learn to Speak German - Mehr Lebensmittel und das Perfekt Last Session was about food related topics and I want to continue with this in order to deepen your knowledge of food related vocabulary. And it is time to take a look at some grammar. The “Perfekt”, the “vollendete Gegenwart” is a good starting point. We are currently on place 18 of the American Top 25 (Education) on iTunes. If you like the podcast, why don't you vote for it on iTunes by following this link.The picture was taken on the 01.01.2008 on "Der Hengst" in the area ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 058 - German-Podcast.de - Mehr Lebensmittel und das Perfekt (PDF) Weiter geht es mit demLernen von Vokabeln rund um Lebensmittel. Dazu ein klein wenig Grammatik: Das Perfekt wird vorgestellt.Ausserdem gibt es einen Blog mit täglichen Übungen, Vokabeln oder sonstigen Überraschungen:http://learn-german-blog.blogspot.com/Lucerne, 06.01.2008Stephan Wiesnerhttp://german-podcast.blogspot.comUse this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 058 - German-Podcast.de - Mehr Lebensmittel und das Perfekt (PDF) Weiter geht es mit dem Lernen von Vokabeln rund um Lebensmittel. Dazu ein klein wenig Grammatik: Das Perfekt wird vorgestellt.Ausserdem gibt es einen Blog mit t�glichen �bungen, Vokabeln oder sonstigen �berraschungen:http://learn-german-blog.blogspot.com/Lucerne, 06.01.2008Stephan Wiesnerhttp://german-podcast.blogspot.comUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 057 - Learn to Speak German - Stephan macht einen Salat (Video) Hallo liebe Freunde, im Rahmen unserer Lebensmittel-Serie zeige ich euch heute mal in einem kleinen Video, wie ich einen Salat mache. Dabei tauchen viele der Vokabeln der letzten Episode wieder auf.Vorsicht, die Datei ist 38MB gross.Viel Spass und ...... Film ab,StephanUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 056 - Learn to Speak German - Lebensmittel In today's lesson we will learn the names of some “Lebensmittel” taken from my kitchen.We start of course with Käse (cheese). Emmentaler is probably the most famous Swiss cheese.There is actually an area called “Emmental” which is very lovely. Looks kind of like the green hills I always imagined the hobbits from Lord of the Rings live in .-)Remember that there is a PDF containing the transcript and pictures of this lessen.Euch ein schönes neues Jahr, viel Erfolg und natürlich vie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 056 - Learn to Speak German - Lebensmittel In today's lesson we will learn the names of some �Lebensmittel� taken from my kitchen.We start of course with K�se (cheese). Emmentaler is probably the most famous Swiss cheese.There is actually an area called �Emmental� which is very lovely. Looks kind of like the green hills I always imagined the hobbits from Lord of the Rings live in .-)Remember that there is a PDF containing the transcript and pictures of this lessen.Euch ein sch�nes neues Jahr, viel Erfolg und nat�rlich viel Spass bei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 055 - Learn to Speak German - Sich Vorstellen In today's lesson we will talk about different ways to introduce oneself. Different names, jobs and hometowns provide a good opportunity to learn some new words.Furthermore a big Dankeschön an D'Arcy for the large donation via PayPal.If you want to support me, just follow this link, enter the amount of money you want to donate and send it off .-)Luzern, 29.12.2007Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 056 - Learn to Speak German - Lebensmittel (PDF) Currently www.archive.org where I host my audio files does not allow to upload (and not all downloads work) any files. Hope they will fix it despite the new year weekend. Please come back and try again later .-(Anyway, here is thePDF for the current German lesson, containing vocabulary and additional information about food.And here is an interesting page: You can download sample tests for German language certification. Why not try one of those and see how fit you already are?http://www.telc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 056 - Learn to Speak German - Lebensmittel (PDF) Currently www.archive.org where I host my audio files does not allow to upload (and not all downloads work) any files. Hope they will fix it despite the new year weekend. Please come back and try again later .-(Anyway, here is the PDF for the current German lesson, containing vocabulary and additional information about food.And here is an interesting page: You can download sample tests for German language certification. Why not try one of those and see how fit you already are?http://www.tel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 055 - Learn to Speak German - Sich Vorstellen (PDF) Here is the PDF file for the currentlearn German lesson, containing the transcript, vocabulary and extras.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 055 - Learn to Speak German - Sich Vorstellen (PDF) Here is the PDF file for the current learn German lesson, containing the transcript, vocabulary and extras.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 054 - Learn to Speak German - Vocabulary Drill This is aGerman vocabulary drill unit. We will repeat the vocabulary of the last few sessions. For this, I will say the English word, give you time to speak the German translation and then I will give the correct answer, giving you time to repeat it once more. Feel free to listen repeatedly to this lesson to "drill" the words.Todays pictures shows my brother Michael in the garden of my parents. He is playing with a remote controled airplane, one of his Christmas presents. Give us men a toy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 054 - Learn to Speak German - Vocabulary Drill This is a German vocabulary drill unit. We will repeat the vocabulary of the last few sessions. For this, I will say the English word, give you time to speak the German translation and then I will give the correct answer, giving you time to repeat it once more. Feel free to listen repeatedly to this lesson to "drill" the words.Todays pictures shows my brother Michael in the garden of my parents. He is playing with a remote controled airplane, one of his Christmas presents. Give us men a toy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - 052 - Der Zauberlehrling by Goethe You really need to know about Goethe if you plan to come to Germany and not appear to be an uneducated person. So I will read on of his most famous poems "Der Zauberlehrling" for you.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, geadelt 1782 (* 28. August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main; † 22. März 1832 in Weimar; auch Göthe), ist als Dichter, Dramatiker, Theaterleiter, Naturwissenschaftler, Kunsttheoretiker und Staatsmann der bekannteste Vertreter der Weimarer Klassik. Sein Werk umfasst Gedichte, Dramen und P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 053 - Martin Luther Allen from Wisconsin asked me about a catholic version of the bible. Though I do not know about that his mail got me thinking about Luther.Luthers translation of the bible into Germanlead to one German "Hochdeutsch" from the many dialects. Maybe I should tell that to some of my Swiss friends, who still talk in dialect .-)Here is one famous quote from that time:"Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, die Seele aus dem Fegefeuer springt."It means that on could by letters of absolution. Those made th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 053 - Martin Luther Allen from Wisconsin asked me about a catholic version of the bible. Though I do not know about that his mail got me thinking about Luther. Luthers translation of the bible into German lead to one German "Hochdeutsch" from the many dialects. Maybe I should tell that to some of my Swiss friends, who still talk in dialect .-)Here is one famous quote from that time:"Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, die Seele aus dem Fegefeuer springt. "It means that on could by letters of absolution. Those made ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 051 - der Advent Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt.Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier -dann steht das Christkind vor der T�r.[Kinder Reim]Es ist Adventszeit, Advent season, a good time to spend with your family, to look back to the things that happened during the year and ahead into the next one.This is especially true for me, as I am looking for a new job again. Things really did not work out with the team and the job was not what I expected and, ja, a lot of reasons. Anyway, Test Managers are a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 049 - In the Office Geschichten und Vokabeln rund aus dem Leben im Grossraumbüro sind heute an der Reihe...der Kürbis = pumpkindas Grossraumbüro = open-plan office, cube farmdas Papier = paperder Schreibtisch = deskder Computer = computerdie Tastatur = keyboardder Monitor = screendie Maus = mouseder Bleistift = pencildie Sitzung = meetingdas Telefon = telephoneder Schrank = lockerder Stuhl = chairfluchen = to sweardie Rolltreppe = moving stairsder Fahrstuhl = elevatorLucerne, 11.11.2007Stephan Wiesnerstepha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 049 - In the Office Geschichten und Vokabeln rund aus dem Leben im Grossraumb�ro sind heute an der Reihe...der K�rbis = pumpkindas Grossraumb�ro = open-plan office, cube farmdas Papier = paperder Schreibtisch = deskder Computer = computerdie Tastatur = keyboardder Monitor = screendie Maus = mouseder Bleistift = pencildie Sitzung = meetingdas Telefon = telephoneder Schrank = lockerder Stuhl = chairfluchen = to sweardie Rolltreppe = moving stairsder Fahrstuhl = elevatorLucerne, 11.11.2007Stephan Wiesnerstephan@g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 047 - Sardinien und neu in Zürich Hallo Freunde, da bin ich jetzt also vom Strand in Sardinien direkt ins Büro der Credit Suisse. Kravatte statt Badelatschen. What a difference!Heute erzähle ich also ein wenig, wie es mir die letzten Wochen ergangen ist, von Klettern in Finale Ligure, Highlights des Kletterns auf Sardinien, was für eine komische Team Zusammensetzung ich habe und warum ich mal wieder im Hotel "wohne". Gespickt mit ein paar Vokabeln, versteht sich...der Strand - beachdie Fähre - ferrydas Klettern - climbi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 046 - France: Gorge de la Jonte The Gorge de la Jonte is a canyon in the south of France (Le Midi). The Jonte itself is a 38km long river. I have been on holiday there last week, climbing of course, and it really is a fantastic landscape. You can find out more here: http://www.pecheaveyron.com/aveyron_sud/jonte.php (en francais).There are several small and very beautiful villages close to the river, adding to the atmosphere. Everything looks surprisingly clean and freshly renovated. You can go hiking, biking, climbing, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 045 - Transalp Last week I rode my MTB across the Alps: Transalp. With 10 other "Biker" on a trip organized by http://www.dav-summit-club.de/. We started at the Bodensee in the north of Switzerland and rode across the San Bernardino pass to Locarno.6 days of "biken" with a typical "Höhenprofil" looking like this:Each night we slept in a different hotel in a different town (Appenzell, Chur, San Bernardino, etc.).The picture shows us standing above the Rhein, looking down at Lichtenstein and Vaduz.For me t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 044 - The Book and about finding a Job We have two topics today:1) I finished the book. That is, the PDF version. It takes several weeks to get an ISBN and to publish the printed version.2) You will learn something about finding a job in Switzerland.The book can be bought and read/printed at LuLu. Later it will be available at Amazon as well. A preview is available and there is a homepage for the series. You know that I am not a native English speaker, but I hope that there are not too many mistakes in it. The German parts shoul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 043 - Tiere der Schweiz Many animals live in the beautiful nature of Switzerland. Here are some of them:Der AlpensalamanderDer SteinbockDer SchwanDie EnteDie EidechseDie DohleCan anybody recommend a good trekking trip into a dessert (Wüste) that I could do in September? I am thinking about 2 to 3 weeks and it needs to be a little bit tough or really special. Not the usual tour in a jeep...I am going to make a Transalp tour (cross the Alps on my bike). Therefore I am training very hard at the moment. Went biking f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 042 - Learn German with a story Part Two I have a dream about writing books - and live of it.Today I present some vocabulary from the book to learn German I am working on and you get the first two chapters for free.The summer finally returned to Switzerland, so I will spend the afternoon lying at Lake Lucerne reading Harry Potter...Here is a picture of some Swiss money.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com/Lucerne, 04.08.2007by Stephan Wiesnerstephan@german-podcast.deUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 041 - Learn German with a story I prepared a little story to help you build your vocabulary. You can download it here:http://www.testmanager.info/Preview_Learn_German_with_a_Story.pdfPlease let me know what you think about that and if you think that kind of story helpful to you. You might want to take a look back at episode 2, which was similar.Today is the first of August. That is the national holiday of Switzerland.Am 1. August wird in der ganzen Schweiz der Entstehnung der Eidgenossenschaft gedacht. Die Eidgenossenscha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 040 - Freiburg We have Franziska from Freiburg here and she tells you what she loves about the town.Freiburg (frz. Fribourg [f?i?bu?]) ist der Hauptort des Schweizer Kantons Freiburg und des District de la Sarine (deutsch Saanebezirk). Im internationalen deutschen Sprachgebrauch wird meist der Zusatz Freiburg im �echtland verwendet, um Verwechslung mit Freiburg im Breisgau vorzubeugen.Weil das �echtland jedoch eine veraltete Landschaftsbezeichnung darstellt, schreibt und spricht man in der Deutschschweiz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 040 - Freiburg We have Franziska from Freiburg here and she tells you what she loves about the town.Freiburg(frz.Fribourg[fʀiˈbuʀ]) ist der Hauptort desSchweizerKantonsFreiburgund des District de la Sarine (deutschSaanebezirk). Im internationalen deutschen Sprachgebrauch wird meist der ZusatzFreiburg imÜechtlandverwendet, um Verwechslung mitFreiburg im Breisgauvorzubeugen.Weil dasÜechtlandjedoch eine veraltete Landschaftsbezeichnung darstellt, schreibt und spricht man in der Deutschschweiz in den mei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 039 - Bärentrek und Smalltalk Wandern auf dem BärentrekI went hiking on the famous Bärentrek last weekend.The full tour lasts 7 days, but we did only two of those from Gimmelwals (Lauterbrunnen) toRosenlaui (Meiringen). You can see a map and some pictures on the homepage.Edith and I used the evening to record some smalltalk, like you might encounter in a bed and breakfast or a mountain hotel like the one we stayed in.The tour passed some of the most famous Mountains of Switzerland like the famous trio Eiger, Mönch un ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 039 - B�rentrek und Smalltalk Wandern auf dem B�rentrekI went hiking on the famous B�rentrek last weekend. The full tour lasts 7 days, but we did only two of those from Gimmelwals (Lauterbrunnen) to Rosenlaui (Meiringen). You can see a map and some pictures on the homepage.Edith and I used the evening to record some smalltalk, like you might encounter in a bed and breakfast or a mountain hotel like the one we stayed in.The tour passed some of the most famous Mountains of Switzerland like the famous trio Eiger, M�nch und ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 038 - Weather We have had a terrible thunderstorm in the last week here in Switzerland sotoday I will talk about the weather. The first picture shows a climber with perfect weatherlast sunday in the morning. The sky is blue: Perfektes Wetter mit blauem Himmel.Later we got some dark clouds, though. Es zogen dunkle Wolken auf. And in the late afternoon it started to rain and we got a thunderstorm. Am späten Nachmittag fing es an zu regnen und wir bekamen ein Gewitter.Auf dem Bild sieht man meinen Balkon u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 038 - Weather We have had a terrible thunderstorm in the last week here in Switzerland so today I will talk about the weather. The first picture shows a climber with perfect weather last sunday in the morning. The sky is blue: Perfektes Wetter mit blauem Himmel.Later we got some dark clouds, though. Es zogen dunkle Wolken auf. And in the late afternoon it started to rain and we got a thunderstorm. Am sp�ten Nachmittag fing es an zu regnen und wir bekamen ein Gewitter. Auf dem Bild sieht man meinen Balkon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 037 - Familie, mein Bruder Micha und der Pilatus My brother Michael visited me last weekend. He works as a cook on a passenger ship and hasnever really been in the mountains before. He told me that he wanted to know what I found here in Switzerland that made me stay for so long (besides my ex girlfriend of course).So, I showed it to him...This is a good opportunity to talk about "family words", so I will teach you words like Vater and Mutter.On the pictures on the homepage you can see us starting by having fun on the long sledge trail on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 037 - Familie, mein Bruder Micha und der Pilatus My brother Michael visited me last weekend. He works as a cook on a passenger ship and has never really been in the mountains before. He told me that he wanted to know what I found here in Switzerland that made me stay for so long (besides my ex girlfriend of course).So, I showed it to him...This is a good opportunity to talk about "family words", so I will teach you words like Vater and Mutter.On the pictures on the homepage you can see us starting by having fun on the long sledge trail on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 036 - Interlaken und "werden" Missy from Washington asked me about "werden" and I will say a few words about the town Interlaken.You can find some very nice pictures from Interlaken here.I spend some time there with Berg und Tal to go climbing and to learn some Yoga from a nice Yoga teacher from www.prana-yoga.ch.We slept in the hotel Carlton Europe. It was nice and very clean, the food was fantastic and the personal extremely friendly. And all for a fair price. It is right next to the train station, by the way.http:// ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 036 - Interlaken und "werden" Missy from Washington asked me about "werden" and I will say a few words about the town Interlaken.You can find some very nice pictures from Interlaken here.I spend some time there withBerg und Talto go climbing and tolearn some Yoga from a nice Yoga teacher from www.prana-yoga.ch.We slept in the hotelCarlton Europe. It was nice and very clean, the food was fantastic and the personal extremely friendly. And all for a fair price. It is right next to the train station, by the way.http://germ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 035 - Pfingsten und Sauerkraut Welcome to German-Podcast.de. This Podcast will teach you German.I am told that may Americans see us German as always eating Sauerkraut. I will have to say something about this rumour. And as we have Pfingsten today I will explain something about that custom.This is an advanced lesson.See http://german-podcast.blogspot.com for the corresponding Webpage. There is an archive on the right side where you can find all old lessons.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 035 - Pfingsten und Sauerkraut Welcome to German-Podcast.de.This Podcast will teach you German.I am told that may Americans see us German as always eatingSauerkraut. I will have to say something about this rumour. And as we havePfingstentoday I will explain something about that custom.This is an advanced lesson.Seehttp://german-podcast.blogspot.comfor the corresponding Webpage. There is an archive on the right side where you can find all old lessons.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 033 - Brötchen und andere Fragen Today I will answer some of your questions, like how to pronounce Brötchen and that all Swiss eatMüslifor breakfast. On the picture you can see what I normally eat for breakfast.You can find all you want to know aboutBrötchen at Wikipedia.de.When asked about his breakfastToby, a good friend from me, said "brötchen, müsli, böse kellogs oder böse brötchen", he does a lot of sports, too, though.My podcast helps you? Why notsupport me and donate some dollars, euros, or whatever with Pay ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 034 - Learn German The most basic lesson I can think of and some information about the free vocabulary learn program VociTeach (http://vociteach.sourceforge.net/).I created a password protected directory where I store PDF transcripts and a start vocabulary for VociTeach. If you pay me just 2$ using PayPal you will get access to it until the 25.06.2007. The audio podcast will stay free, of course and this is just intended as an experiment. Let's see what happens...Those of you who have already payed me some m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 034 - Learn German The most basic lesson I can think ofand some information about the free vocabulary learn programVociTeach(http://vociteach.sourceforge.net/).I created a password protected directory where I store PDF transcripts and a start vocabulary for VociTeach.If you pay me just 2$ using PayPalyou will get access to it until the 25.06.2007. The audio podcast will stay free, of course and this is just intended as an experiment. Let's see what happens...Those of you who have already payed me some money, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 032 - Climbing in Ardeche Hallo liebe Freunde,Eins lasst euch gesagt sein: Esst kein Fleisch in Frankreich!Das spart euch Kummer und Euros. Auch wenn der Garcon fragt, ob ihr das Fleisch gut durch haben wollt, das meint er nicht so. Ein Steak muss nochtropfen(to drip, in this case means that the meat was very bloddy), dafür darf es dann aber beliebigzäh(tough meat) sein...Wer beim Italiener Pasta mitLachs(salmon)bestellt, der darf sich nicht wundern, wenn er das auch bekommt: Einen Topf weicher Nudeln, darauf ein ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 033 - Br�tchen und andere Fragen Today I will answer some of your questions, like how to pronounce Br�tchen and that all Swiss eat M�sli for breakfast. On the picture you can see what I normally eat for breakfast.You can find all you want to know about Br�tchen at Wikipedia.de.When asked about his breakfast Toby, a good friend from me, said "br�tchen, m�sli, b�se kellogs oder b�se br�tchen", he does a lot of sports, too, though.Lucerne, 15.05.2007Stephan Wiesnerstephan@german-podcast.deUse this free podcast to learn to spe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 032 - Climbing in Ardeche Hallo liebe Freunde,Eins lasst euch gesagt sein: Esst kein Fleisch in Frankreich!Das spart euch Kummer und Euros. Auch wenn der Garcon fragt, ob ihr das Fleisch gut durch haben wollt, das meint er nicht so. Ein Steak muss noch tropfen (to drip, in this case means that the meat was very bloddy), daf�r darf es dann aber beliebig z�h (tough meat) sein...Wer beim Italiener Pasta mit Lachs (salmon) bestellt, der darf sich nicht wundern, wenn er das auch bekommt: Einen Topf weicher Nudeln, darauf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 031 - Sprachurlaub in Siena Teil 2 TodayI will continue the story from Italystarted inLesson 26. Hans writes from Siena what happens to him at the language school.We hit 200.000 downloads today, wow! With 15$ of donations up to now, that makes 0,000075$ per download. Now that is what I call being part of "The Long Tail" :-)Parlo Italiano?Heute in der Schule waren wir sieben Neue. Zuerst habe ich eine kleine, dicke, schnaufende Frau gesehen. sie war wirklich am Schnaufen. Ohne Ende. Und immer hin und her gegangen. Wohl Hitzew ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 030 - Sprachurlaub in Siena Teil 2 Today I will continue the story from Italy started in Lesson 26. Hans writes from Siena what happens to him at the language school.We hit 200.000 downloads today, wow! With 15$ of donations up to now, that makes 0,000075$ per download. Now that is what I call being part of "The Long Tail" :-)Parlo Italiano? Heute in der Schule waren wir sieben Neue. Zuerst habe ich eine kleine, dicke, schnaufende Frau gesehen. sie war wirklich am Schnaufen. Ohne Ende. Und immer hin und her gegangen. Wohl H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 030 - Climbing Today I will tell you something aboutclimbing in Switzerlandand teach you some words connected to it.If you are interested, here aresome pictures from my climbing trip to the Tessin.If you want to learn climbing you might want to tryhttp://www.bergundtal.ch/and if you want to improve your climbing in a warm climate, try Pesche athttp://www.bigwall.ch.The picture was taken athttp://www.melchsee-frutt.ch/ an area at 2000m with over one hundred prepared routes in the Klettergarten. You can go ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 030 - Climbing Today I will tell you something about climbing in Switzerland and teach you some words connected to it.If you are interested, here are some pictures from my climbing trip to the Tessin.If you want to learn climbing you might want to try http://www.bergundtal.ch/and if you want to improve your climbing in a warm climate, try Pesche at http://www.bigwall.ch.The picture was taken at http://www.melchsee-frutt.ch/ an area at 2000m with over one hundred prepared routes in the Klettergarten. You c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 029 - Velo or Bike You can see a picture of a bike here on http://german-podcast.blogspot.com/ and I tell you all the important words.Next week is the Osterwochenende and I will go climbing in the Tessin. You can even see the walls I am going to climb at Google.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 029 - Velo or Bike You can see a picture of a bike here on http://german-podcast.blogspot.com/ and I tell you all the important words.Next week is the Osterwochenende and I will go climbing in the Tessin. You can even see the walls I am going to climb at Google.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 028 - Mein Schlafzimmer Today I will show youmy bedroom...You can see the German words on the picture. I build the bed myself, by the way and have yet to find a woman, to, you know,ähm, test it with me. So if you live in Switzerland, please feel free to, you know, mhm, apply .-)Lucerne, 17.03.2007Stephan Wiesnerstephan@german-podcast.deUse this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 028 - Mein Schlafzimmer Today I will show you my bedroom...You can see the German words on the picture. I build the bed myself, by the way and have yet to find a woman, to, you know, �hm, test it with me. So if you live in Switzerland, please feel free to, you know, mhm, apply .-)Lucerne, 17.03.2007Stephan Wiesnerstephan@german-podcast.deUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 027 - Der Schweizer Alpen Club SAC I went on a ski tourtoday and it was fantastic. Fresh snow and perfect weather. As we started quite early, we were the first to ski through that fresh Pulverschnee or Pulver as the snow boarders call it.Anyway, this inspired me to tell you something about the SAC the Schweizer Alpen Club. If you usually only listen via ITunes, you might want to visit the blog site for this, as I posted and talk about some pictures.You can see larger versions of the pictures by clicking on them, by the way.T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 027 - Der Schweizer Alpen Club SAC I went on a ski tour today and it was fantastic. Fresh snow and perfect weather. As we started quite early, we were the first to ski through that fresh Pulverschnee or Pulver as the snow boarders call it.Anyway, this inspired me to tell you something about the SAC the Schweizer Alpen Club. If you usually only listen via ITunes, you might want to visit the blog site for this, as I posted and talk about some pictures.You can see larger versions of the pictures by clicking on them, by the way. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 026 - Sprachurlaub in Italien: Hinreise (Advanced Lesson) Fa Freddo, non caldoToday I start a new series of emails from Hans to his friends in Switzerland. Hans is in a language school in Italy for two weeks and wants to learn Italian there.Das beste zuerst: Ich bin saufroh [very happy], dass ich mir f�r die Reise noch so einen schickes Kapuzenj�ckchen [slang for jacket with a hood] geleistet habe. Es ist n�mlich k�lter hier als bei euch! Und die Regenjacke (l'impermeabile) [rain jacket] brauchte ich auch schon am ersten Abend. Und in der Bude [sl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - Lesson 026 - Sprachurlaub in Italien: Hinreise (Advanced Lesson) Fa Freddo, non caldoToday I start anew series of emailsfrom Hans to his friends in Switzerland. Hans is in a language school in Italy for two weeks and wants to learn Italian there.Das beste zuerst: Ich bin saufroh [very happy], dass ich mir für die Reise noch so einen schickes Kapuzenjäckchen [slang for jacket with a hood] geleistet habe. Es ist nämlich kälter hier als bei euch! Und die Regenjacke (l'impermeabile) [rain jacket] brauchte ich auch schon am ersten Abend. Und in der Bude [ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to speak German - Lesson 025 - im Hotel auschecken Today we will learn how Hans pays for hisvisit in the hoteland makes a new reservation for the following week.And Rex and Regula, two friends of mine (she is the woman on the video from lesson 9), married last weekend.H: Guten Morgen, ich möchte gerne auschecken.M: Guten Morgen Herr Schmidt, einen Moment bitte. Zwei Nächte im Doppelzimmer mit Frühstück, das macht genau 300 Franken. Wie möchten Sie zahlen?H: Kann ich mit Kreditkarte zahlen?M: Selbstverständlich.H: Hier meine Coop-Karte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to speak German - Lesson 025 - im Hotel auschecken Today we will learn how Hans pays for his visit in the hotel and makes a new reservation for the following week.And Rex and Regula, two friends of mine (she is the woman on the video from lesson 9), married last weekend.H: Guten Morgen, ich m�chte gerne auschecken. M: Guten Morgen Herr Schmidt, einen Moment bitte. Zwei N�chte im Doppelzimmer mit Fr�hst�ck, das macht genau 300 Franken. Wie m�chten Sie zahlen? H: Kann ich mit Kreditkarte zahlen? M: Selbstverst�ndlich. H: Hier meine Coop-Karte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to speak German - Lesson 024 - im Hotel einchecken TodayHans arrives at the hotel. And we have Edith with her favorite Redensart, spoken in the dialect of Lucerne.Today we passed 100.000 downloads and again many of you wrote me with hints and feedback. Thanks for that!M: Guten Abend.H: Guten Abend, mein Name ist Hans Schmidt, ich habe ein Zimmer reserviert.M: Einen Moment bitte, Herr Schmidt. Ja, da haben wir es, Zimmer 213. Wenn Sie mir bitte dieses Formular ausfüllen wollen.H: Gerne. ... Bitte sehr.M: Danke schön und hier ist ihr Schlü ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to speak German - Lesson 024 - im Hotel einchecken Today Hans arrives at the hotel. And we have Edith with her favorite Redensart, spoken in the dialect of Lucerne.Today we passed 100.000 downloads and again many of you wrote me with hints and feedback. Thanks for that!M: Guten Abend. H: Guten Abend, mein Name ist Hans Schmidt, ich habe ein Zimmer reserviert. M: Einen Moment bitte, Herr Schmidt. Ja, da haben wir es, Zimmer 213. Wenn Sie mir bitte dieses Formular ausf�llen wollen. H: Gerne. ... Bitte sehr. M: Danke sch�n und hier ist ihr Sch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to speak German - Lesson 023 - Ein Hotel Buchen Back to Hans. He is going to work in Bern for a time and needs a hotel to stay in from Monday to Wednesday. He calls the hotel“Sternen” in Bern and asks for a reservation. The picture on the right shows one of Switzerlands famous "Postauto". In the mountains where you can not go by train, you take the Postauto. At every bend it blows its special horn. That is only allowed in certain regions, as indicated by the blue sign below.M: Hotel Sternen, mein Name ist Müller, was kann ich für s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to speak German - Lesson 023 - Ein Hotel Buchen Back to Hans. He is going to work in Bern for a time and needs a hotel to stay in from Monday to Wednesday. He calls the hotel �Sternen� in Bern and asks for a reservation. The picture on the right shows one of Switzerlands famous "Postauto". In the mountains where you can not go by train, you take the Postauto. At every bend it blows its special horn. That is only allowed in certain regions, as indicated by the blue sign below.M: Hotel Sternen, mein Name ist M�ller, was kann ich f�r sie tu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monsterkorso in Luzern (Video) Here isa short videocaptured on the last evening of theFasnachtinLucerne, theMonsterkorso. I did not find a good spot, so what you see is the area where the musicians started. They are not really playing music yet, but you will get an idea of the atmosphere.When I went to work the next morning, I passed through the same street and at 5:45 in the morning there were still people there drinking and singing. We had a temperature of -1°.There is a (slang) saying in Germany "EsfriertimdickstenRo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monsterkorso in Luzern (Video) Here is a short video captured on the last evening of the Fasnacht in Lucerne, the Monsterkorso. I did not find a good spot, so what you see is the area where the musicians started. They are not really playing music yet, but you will get an idea of the atmosphere.When I went to work the next morning, I passed through the same street and at 5:45 in the morning there were still people there drinking and singing. We had a temperature of -1�.There is a (slang) saying in Germany "Es friert im di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to speak German - Lesson 022 - Fasnacht Use German-Podcast.de to learn German for free.Today I want to present you a famous local custom from Lucerne:Die Fasnacht.You can find a detailed description (in German) atWikipedia,but here is the short version:Die Luzerner Fasnacht ist eine der grössten jährlich stattfindenden kulturellen Anlässe in Luzern und die grösste Fasnacht der Schweiz. Sie verfügt über eine lange Tradition und beginnt immer am „Schmutzigen Donnerstag“ (dirty thursday).Um fünf Uhr morgens beginnt mit de ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 022 - Fasnacht Welcome to German-Podcast.de. The Podcast to learn German.Today I want to present you a famous local custom from Lucerne:Die Fasnacht.You can find a detailed description (in German) atWikipedia,but here is the short version:Die Luzerner Fasnacht ist eine der gr�ssten j�hrlich stattfindenden kulturellen Anl�sse in Luzern und die gr�sste Fasnacht der Schweiz. Sie verf�gt �ber eine lange Tradition und beginnt immer am �Schmutzigen Donnerstag� (dirty thursday).Um f�nf Uhr morgens beginnt mit de ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 021 - Reading the News �Schweizerinnen haben im europ�ischen Vergleich kleine Br�ste. Nur der Busen der �sterreicherinnen und Italienerinnen ist noch kleiner.�So lautete diese Woche die Titelzeile [headline] einer der gr�ssten Zeitungen der Schweiz. In dem Artikel ging es um eine Studie, derzufolge die Engl�nderinnen die gr�sste Oberweite [bust size] (Slang: Holz vor der H�tte) haben. Demnach h�tten 14% der Schweizerinnen die kleinste K�rpchengr�sse (als wenn ich als Mann w�sste welche das ist).Meine pers�nliche ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 021 - Reading the News „Schweizerinnen haben im europäischen Vergleich kleine Brüste. Nur der Busen der Österreicherinnen und Italienerinnen ist noch kleiner.“So lautete diese Woche die Titelzeile [headline] einer der grössten Zeitungen der Schweiz. In dem Artikel ging es um eine Studie, derzufolge die Engländerinnen die grösste Oberweite [bust size] (Slang: Holz vor der Hütte) haben. Demnach hätten 14% der Schweizerinnen die kleinste Körpchengrösse (als wenn ich als Mann wüsste welche das ist).Mei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - 021 -Uhrzeiten German-Podcast.de - 021 - UhrzeitenWelcome to German-Podcast.de.The Podcast to learn German.Today we will learn how ask for and how to tell the time.Furthermore I will give some explanations to the new design of the podcast, so please let me know if is better or worse for you.Knusper, knusper, kneuschen.Wer knuspert an meinem H�uschen?"Von drau�en antwortete ein d�nnes Stimmchen:"Der Wind, der Wind, das himmlische Kind![from H�nsel und Gretel]In Germany we use the 24 hour system for all off ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn to Speak German - 021 - Uhrzeiten German-Podcast.de - 021 - UhrzeitenWelcome to German-Podcast.de.The Podcast to learn German.Today we will learn how ask for and how to tell the time.Furthermore I will give some explanations to the new design of the podcast, so please let me know if is better or worse for you.Knusper, knusper, kneuschen.Wer knuspert an meinem Häuschen?"Von draußen antwortete ein dünnes Stimmchen:"Der Wind, der Wind, das himmlische Kind![from Hänsel und Gretel]In Germany we use the 24 hour system for all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 020 � Mit dem Bus (PDF) Here is the PDF for lesson 020.Remeber you can subscribe to this podcast:Subscribe to German-Podcast.deUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 020– Mit dem Bus (PDF) Here is thePDFfor lesson 020.Remeber you can subscribe to this podcast:Subscribe to German-Podcast.deUse this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 020– Mit dem Bus Welcome to German-Podcast.de. The Podcast to learn German.Hans and Julia are finally back in Switzerland. They are at the station in Lucerne and now they need totake the busto take them home.Seethe corresponding Webpage and look for exercises onhttp://www.german-podcast.de. Remember that you can use iTunes or other podcast tools to subscribe.Here are some of the new words:BusfahrerFahrkarteTageskarteBusfahrplanbus driverticketday ticketbus scheduleUse this free podcast to learn to speak Ger ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 020 � Mit dem Bus Welcome to German-Podcast.de. The Podcast to learn German. Hans and Julia are finally back in Switzerland. They are at the station in Lucerne and now they need to take the bus to take them home.See the corresponding Webpage and look for exercises on http://www.german-podcast.de. Remember that you can use iTunes or other podcast tools to subscribe.Here are some of the new words: BusfahrerFahrkarteTageskarteBusfahrplan bus driverticketday ticketbus scheduleUse this free podcast to lea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 019– Du oder Sie? Today I will teach you when to use the formalSieand when to use the informalDu. Basically you use Du for kids and friends and Sie to adress grown ups you do not know. This is true for Germany as well as for Switzerland.Thelessonexplains about the infamous "Fräulein" and how to adress somebody with a title.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 019 � Du oder Sie? Today I will teach you when to use the formal Sie and when to use the informal Du. Basically you use Du for kids and friends and Sie to adress grown ups you do not know. This is true for Germany as well as for Switzerland.The lesson explains about the infamous "Fr�ulein" and how to adress somebody with a title. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 018– Tage und Monate Hier ist dasMP3mit den Wochentagen und Monaten und hier finden Sie dieausgeschriebenen Wörter.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 018 � Tage und Monate Hier ist das MP3 mit den Wochentagen und Monaten und hier finden Sie die ausgeschriebenen W�rter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 017 - Zugfahrt (MP3) Hans and Julia are on the train from Hamburg to Switzerland and the conductor is aproaching...Here is theMP3.Today we had a lot of fog, like so often in Lucerne. Nobody told me that before I moved from Basel (where there is always good weather) to Luzern. Anyway, I took the afternoon off and went up into the mountains and above the fog. That is absolutely wonderful!The picture on the left was taken last year, though. We finally came above the fog around 300m and after two whole days in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 017 - Zugfahrt (PDF) Here is the PDF.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 017 - Zugfahrt (PDF) Here is thePDF.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 017 - Zugfahrt (MP3) Hans and Julia are on the train from Hamburg to Switzerland and the conductor is aproaching...Here is theMP3.Today we had a lot of fog, like so often in Lucerne. Nobody told me that before I moved from Basel (where there is always good weather) to Luzern. Anyway, I took the afternoon off and went up into the mountains and above the fog. That is absolutely wonderful!The picture on the left was taken last year, though. We finally came above the fog around 300m and after two whole days in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 016 - Alphabet Today I will pronounce theGerman alphabetfor you. This is a very short beginner session.We had perfect weather today: Fresh snow, sun and temperatures above zero. I used this to go Schneeschuwandern on mount Wildspitz in central Switzerland. On the picture you can get a little impression of that. Imagine walking for hours through fresh snow on a ridge, with a clear sky and good long distance sight. Low hills in the north (towards Basel) and the swiss alps on the south. Some seas and as we s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 015 - Zugticket Hans and Julia are finished with Hamburg and need to buy tickets for the train to Switzerland. The PDF contains a picture of a train ticket with explanations.Here is theepisode.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 015 - Zugticket (PDF) Here is the PDF.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 015 - Zugticket (PDF) Here is thePDF.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 016 - Alphabet Today I will pronounce the German alphabet for you. This is a very short beginner session.We had perfect weather today: Fresh snow, sun and temperatures above zero. I used this to go Schneeschuwandern on mount Wildspitz in central Switzerland. On the picture you can get a little impression of that. Imagine walking for hours through fresh snow on a ridge, with a clear sky and good long distance sight. Low hills in the north (towards Basel) and the swiss alps on the south. Some seas and as we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 015 - Zugticket Hans and Julia are finished with Hamburg and need to buy tickets for the train to Switzerland. The PDF contains a picture of a train ticket with explanations. Here is the episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 014 - eine Postkarte (Audio) Finally it's Friday! Weekend! Did have a long week in Bern, and that though I spend twonights in a hotel, cutting on travel time. It was very cold, though so I did not really explore Bern yet.Anyway, here is theaudiofor the episode with vocabularies about post cards and letters.The picture is taken from my appartement, so you can see why I long to go Schneeschuwandern on the weekend, now that we finally did get some new snow.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 014 - eine Postkarte (Audio) Finally it's Friday! Weekend! Did have a long week in Bern, and that though I spend twonights in a hotel, cutting on travel time. It was very cold, though so I did not really explore Bern yet.Anyway, here is theaudiofor the episode with vocabularies about post cards and letters.The picture is taken from my appartement, so you can see why I long to go Schneeschuwandern on the weekend, now that we finally did get some new snow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 014 - eine Postkarte Todays lesson teaches you the elements of a letter or postcard. The PDF contains the written words with translations and a picture of a real postcard to make things more clear.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 014 - eine Postkarte Todays lesson teaches you the elements of a letter or postcard. ThePDFcontains the written words with translations and a picture of a real postcard to make things more clear.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geldwechsel (PDF) The PDF for the episode about Geldwechsel is here.My first day on the new project was tough, but good. Mostly shaking hands and listening to others, though. I will not be able to post a new learn german episode until the weekend, though.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geldwechsel (PDF) The PDF for the episode about Geldwechsel ishere.My first day on the new project was tough, but good. Mostly shaking hands and listening to others, though. I will not be able to post a new learn german episode until the weekend, though.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geldwechsel Todays german lesson is very important, as it will teach you how to change money at a bank. Often you find a machine to do that at the major train stations, but otherwise you will have to talk to somebody.Hans and Julia are still in Hamburg, and are now visiting the town. As they live in Switzerland they need to change money at a bank.Here is thefile.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geldwechsel Todays german lesson is very important, as it will teach you how to change money at a bank. Often you find a machine to do that at the major train stations, but otherwise you will have to talk to somebody.Hans and Julia are still in Hamburg, and are now visiting the town. As they live in Switzerland they need to change money at a bank.Here is the file. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 012– Nach dem Weg fragen (MP3) Hans and Julia are still in Hamburg, and are now visiting the town. And they are lost. Again. They need to ask for directions.This lesson builds on the last one so you might want to hear that one first.The Podcast ishere.And I have started to add exercises to the homepage:http://www.german-podcast.de/Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 012 � Nach dem Weg fragen (PDF) The PDF file for 012 is here.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 012– Nach dem Weg fragen (PDF) The PDF file for 012 ishere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 012 � Nach dem Weg fragen (MP3) Hans and Julia are still in Hamburg, and are now visiting the town. And they are lost. Again. They need to ask for directions.This lesson builds on the last one so you might want to hear that one first.The Podcast is here.And I have started to add exercises to the homepage: http://www.german-podcast.de/ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 011– Wegbeschreibung (MP3) We are back to Hans and Julia. They are still in Hamburg, and are now visiting the town. As they both have not been there before, they need to consult a map and Julia needs to explain Hans how to get to the market place (as she is better at reading maps than he is). This is an important lesso, so bes sure that I will let you work on directions some more in the following sections.The podcast ishere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 011 � Wegbeschreibung (PDF) The PDF for lessen 011 is here.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 011– Wegbeschreibung (PDF) The PDF for lessen 011 ishere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 011 � Wegbeschreibung (MP3) We are back to Hans and Julia. They are still in Hamburg, and are now visiting the town. As they both have not been there before, they need to consult a map and Julia needs to explain Hans how to get to the market place (as she is better at reading maps than he is). This is an important lesso, so bes sure that I will let you work on directions some more in the following sections.The podcast is here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 010 - Zusammenfassung (MP3) The number 10 should be reason enough to take a short look back to where we come from, where we are at the moment and to take a look forward to where we will go. I read some comments from users.No new words today, just some exercises to repeat old words. The Podcast is here.Do not forget that you can subscribe to the podcast with iTunes or any other podcast tool here:http://feeds.feedburner.com/German-podcastUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 010 - Zusammenfassung (MP3) The number 10 should be reason enough to take a short look back to where we come from,where we are at the moment and to take a look forward to where we will go. I read some comments from users.No new words today, just some exercises to repeat old words.The Podcast ishere.Do not forget that you can subscribe to the podcast with iTunes or any other podcast tool here:http://feeds.feedburner.com/German-podcastUse this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 010 - Zusammenfassung (PDF) Here is the PDF file for episode 010.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 010 - Zusammenfassung (PDF) Hereis the PDF file for episode 010.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 009 � In der K�che Today we are going to look at some typical things that can be found in a kitchen.Edith and Regula from Switzerland are assisting me with this. Regula is pregnant by the way. I will let you know what becomes of the child in spring.The video can be found here.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 009– In der Küche Today we are going to look at some typical things that can be found in a kitchen.Edith and Regula from Switzerland are assisting me with this. Regula is pregnant by the way. I will let you know what becomes of the child in spring.The video can be foundhere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 008 - Zahlen Today we will learn and practice the numbers from 0 to 100.This is the last Podcast for some days, but I plan something special for the weekend, so you might want to check back on sunday evening/monday morning.There is no PDF today, as it would contain only numbers:Null, Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier, F�nf, Sechs, Sieben, Acht, Neun, Zehn.Zwanzig, Dreissig, Vierzig, F�nfzig, Sechzig, Siebzig, Achtzig, Neunzig, Einhundert.The Podcast is here.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 008 - Zahlen Today we will learn and practice the numbers from 0 to 100.This is the last Podcast for some days, but I plan something special for the weekend, so you might want to check back on sunday evening/monday morning.There is no PDF today, as it would contain only numbers:Null, Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier, Fünf, Sechs, Sieben, Acht, Neun, Zehn.Zwanzig, Dreissig, Vierzig, Fünfzig, Sechzig, Siebzig, Achtzig, Neunzig, Einhundert.The Podcast ishere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 007 � Wie war die Konferenz? (MP3) And here ist the MP3 file.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 007– Wie war die Konferenz? (MP3) And here ist theMP3 file.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 007 � Wie war die Konferenz? German-Podcast.de, the Podcast to learn German. Our lesson of today continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in one of our last sessions. He is still at the airport with Julia, a friend he met there in a bar. She askes him how his trip to England has been. He tells her about the conference he spoke at.The PDF can be found here.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 007– Wie war die Konferenz? German-Podcast.de, the Podcast to learn German.Our lesson of today continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in one of our last sessions. He is still at the airport with Julia, a friend he met there in a bar. She askes him how his trip to England has been. He tells her about the conference he spoke at.The PDF can be foundhere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 006 � Treffen mit Julia (meeting Julia) Our lesson of today continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in one of our last sessions. He is still at the airport, bought a coffee and is now sitting in the bar, reading a newspaper, waiting for a friend to arrive. Finally Lisa arrives. They say hello and he orders a tea for her.The German learning Podcast can be downloaded here.The pictures shows me standing in front of the infamous Eiger Nordwand next to Grindelwald (Switzerland). Up here at last we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 006– Treffen mit Julia (meeting Julia) Our lesson of today continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in one of our last sessions. He is still at the airport, bought a coffee and is now sitting in the bar, reading a newspaper, waiting for a friend to arrive.Finally Lisa arrives. They say hello and he orders a tea for her.The German learning Podcast can be downloadedhere.The pictures shows me standing in front of the infamous Eiger Nordwand next to Grindelwald (Switzerland). Up here at last we f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 006 � Treffen mit Julia (PDF) This is the PDF containing the transcript of todays lesson.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 006– Treffen mit Julia (PDF) This is thePDFcontaining the transcript of todays lesson.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 004 � Kaffee trinken - MP3 Here is the MP3 Podcast.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 004– Kaffee trinken - MP3 Here is the MP3Podcast.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 004 � Kaffee trinken Our lesson of the German learn Podcast continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in one of our last sessions. He is still at the airport, bought a newspaper in the last session and now wants to drink a coffee and read the newspaper.The PDF here.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 004– Kaffee trinken Our lesson of the German learn Podcast continues with Hans a Germanprogrammer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in one of our last sessions. He is still at the airport, bought a newspaper in the last session and now wants to drink a coffee and read the newspaper.The PDFhere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 005 � Ein Telefonanruf (telephon call) Our lesson of today continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in one of our last sessions. He is still at the airport, bought a coffee in the last session and now sits in the bar, reads a newspaper and waits for a friend to arrive. She calls him on his mobile to say that she is late.We have a guest today, by the way. Her codename is Julia and she will help me out from time to time. The Podcast is here and the PDF here. You can subscribe with iTunes or any ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 005– Ein Telefonanruf (telephon call) Our lesson of today continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in one of our last sessions. He is still at the airport, bought a coffee in the last session and now sits in the bar, reads a newspaper and waits for a friend to arrive. She calls him on his mobile to say that she is late.We have a guest today, by the way. Her codename is Julia and she will help me out from time to time.The Podcast ishereand the PDFhere. You can subscribe with iTunes or any oth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 002 � Beim Zoll (customs) Our lesson of today introduces Hans a German programmer who arrives at the airport in Hamburg. He returns from a business trip to England and has to show his passport at customs. The MP3 file is here and the PDF here.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 002– Beim Zoll (customs) Our lesson of today introduces Hans a German programmer who arrives at the airport in Hamburg. He returns from a business trip to England and has to show his passport at customs.The MP3 file ishereand the PDFhere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 003 � Am Kiosk (at the kiosk) Welcome to German-Podcast.de.This Podcast will teach you German. Our lesson of today continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in our last session. He is still at the airport and now wants to buy a newspaper.See the podcast here, the PDF here and subscribe to the podcast here.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German-Podcast.de - 003– Am Kiosk (at the kiosk) Welcome to German-Podcast.de.This Podcast will teach you German.Our lesson of today continues with Hans a German programmer who arrived at the airport in Hamburg in our last session. He is still at the airport and now wants to buy a newspaper.See the podcasthere, the PDFhereand subscribe to the podcasthere.Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to German-Podcast Welcome to German-Podcast.de. This podcast will teach you German. Lesson one starts with no requirements on your part. This is an easy lesson that is intended to get you (and me) started. Future lessons will elaborate on this.The first lesson is about how to say hello and good morning and ask for your name. You can find the MP3 file here and the PDF transcript here.You can subscribe to the podcast with iTunes on this page: http://feeds.feedburner.com/German-podcastUse this free podcast to l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to German-Podcast Welcome to German-Podcast.de. This podcast will teach you German. Lesson one startswith no requirements on your part. This is an easy lesson that is intended to get you (and me) started. Future lessons will elaborate on this.The first lesson is about how to say hello and good morning and ask for your name. You can find the MP3 filehereand the PDF transcripthere.You can subscribe to the podcast with iTunes on this page: http://feeds.feedburner.com/German-podcastUse this free podcast to learn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website