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kittydesade) wrote2010-04-21 08:21 pm
kittydesade) wrote2010-04-21 08:21 pm
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Right. Let's try this this way. I am remembering my German, so I will do my German.
Peter und Christine machen Notizen über ihre Erlebnisse im Ausland. Was steht auf den Listen?
Peter über Deutschland, Positives: die Parks in die Städte, die Züge, die vielen Blumen in den Fenstern
Peter über Deutschland, Negatives: der Autobahn, und fahren auf der Autobahn.
Christine über Amerika, Positives: in Amerika kann man auch abends und am ganzen Wochenende einkaufen gehen
Christine über Amerika, Negatives: diese Freundlichkeit erscheint ihr manchmal sehr oberflächlich
Hin and her are used to show direction. Hin shows motion away from the speaker, and her shows motion toward the speaker. These words occupy the last position in the sentence.
Ilse und Axel. Stellen Sie Fragen über Ilse und Axel. Benutzen Sie wo, wohin oder woher.
1. Sie arbeiten in einer Buchhandlung.
Wo arbeiten sie?
2. Sie gehen am Samstag in den Supermarkt.
Wohin gehen sie am Samstag?
3. Die Blumen kommen van Markt.
Woher kommen die Blumen?
4. Sie fahren am Sonntag in die Berge.
Wohin fahren sie in die Berge?
5. Sie wandern gern in den Bergen.
Wo wandern sie?
6. Nach der Wanderung gehen sie in ein Restaurant.
Wohin gehen sie nach der Wanderung?
7. Sie essen gern im Restaurant.
Wo essen sie gern?
8. Nach dem Essen fahren sie wieder nach Hause.
Wohin fahren sie nach dem Essen?
9. In den Ferien fahren sie in die Schweiz.
Wohin fahren sie in den Ferien?
10. Axel kommt aus der Schweiz
Woher kommt Axel?
Ich heiße [name] - My name/I am called [name] (sounds like: ish hai-ssh-eh...)
Wie schreibt man das? - How does one write that?/How is that spelled? (sounds like: vee sch-rai-bt mahn das? With help from an English speaker who has studied the language! :))
Wie ist deine/Ihre Adresse? - What is your address? (formal and informal) (sounds like: vee ist dai-neh/Ear-eh Ah-dhreh-say)
Was ist das? - What is that? (sounds like: vas ist das?)
Wie geht? - How are you? (sounds like: vee gayt? sort of, flatten out the 'ay' sound)
Wie geht es Ihnen? - How are you? (formal) (sounds like: vee gayt ess Eeh-nen?)
Remember the conjugation of heißen: Ich heiße, du heißt, Er/Es/Sie heißt, wir heißen, ihr heißt, sie heißen, Sie heißen.
And, some answers for the 'how are you' question:
Es geht - I'm well/It goes okay. (sounds like: ess gayt)
Nicht so gut - Not so good. (sounds like: nikt zo goot)
Ganz gut! - Totally good! (sounds like: gahnz goot)
Nouns are gendered. This makes German really, really annoying. I still recommend FreeRice dot com to learn your vocab on, but if you do flash cards, include the particle because otherwise you will be forgetting what gender is which and that will just lead to headaches and dictionaries.
The indefinite/definite (in that order) articles are:
ein/der - male
ein/das - neuter/third gender
eine/die - female
Eine/Die is also used for the plural article.
I seriously recommend using words that entertain you and maybe relate to fandom to start with vocab, if for no other reason than when they ask you to make up sentences like "X is big/small" "Y is old/new", which hopefully we'll get to tomorrow. If my brain cooperates.
Oogh. Okay, that actually worked pretty well, now I have the rest of the night to do writing/editing stuff. Or writing stuff, if I so choose.
So. Oogh again. I think I have stuff for the The Losers set up, which is to say we leave, eh, sort of early in the morning, find the used bookstore Of Doom in Knoxville (I still can't remember where the hell it is, but I'm sure google knows) and raid it, find a place to have lunch, find a movie theatre. Go back probably relatively late, I think, but probably with lots of goodies and memories of pretty pretty people making big big booms.
I have the Maryland trip sort of organized in my head; for those of you in Maryland it's at the Howard County fairgrounds not this weekend but the next weekend. I'll actually be working, so I won't be able to really hang out. Next visit! And after the festival, back to DC to spend time with the family and my grandpa. It'll be fun. And it'll be interesting. I intend to drag as many stories out of them as I can.
And now, kicking back, relaxing, writing, and hopefully eventually reading Night Watch. The Sergei Lukyanenko one, not the Terry Pratchett one.
Peter und Christine machen Notizen über ihre Erlebnisse im Ausland. Was steht auf den Listen?
Peter über Deutschland, Positives: die Parks in die Städte, die Züge, die vielen Blumen in den Fenstern
Peter über Deutschland, Negatives: der Autobahn, und fahren auf der Autobahn.
Christine über Amerika, Positives: in Amerika kann man auch abends und am ganzen Wochenende einkaufen gehen
Christine über Amerika, Negatives: diese Freundlichkeit erscheint ihr manchmal sehr oberflächlich
Hin and her are used to show direction. Hin shows motion away from the speaker, and her shows motion toward the speaker. These words occupy the last position in the sentence.
Ilse und Axel. Stellen Sie Fragen über Ilse und Axel. Benutzen Sie wo, wohin oder woher.
1. Sie arbeiten in einer Buchhandlung.
Wo arbeiten sie?
2. Sie gehen am Samstag in den Supermarkt.
Wohin gehen sie am Samstag?
3. Die Blumen kommen van Markt.
Woher kommen die Blumen?
4. Sie fahren am Sonntag in die Berge.
Wohin fahren sie in die Berge?
5. Sie wandern gern in den Bergen.
Wo wandern sie?
6. Nach der Wanderung gehen sie in ein Restaurant.
Wohin gehen sie nach der Wanderung?
7. Sie essen gern im Restaurant.
Wo essen sie gern?
8. Nach dem Essen fahren sie wieder nach Hause.
Wohin fahren sie nach dem Essen?
9. In den Ferien fahren sie in die Schweiz.
Wohin fahren sie in den Ferien?
10. Axel kommt aus der Schweiz
Woher kommt Axel?
Ich heiße [name] - My name/I am called [name] (sounds like: ish hai-ssh-eh...)
Wie schreibt man das? - How does one write that?/How is that spelled? (sounds like: vee sch-rai-bt mahn das? With help from an English speaker who has studied the language! :))
Wie ist deine/Ihre Adresse? - What is your address? (formal and informal) (sounds like: vee ist dai-neh/Ear-eh Ah-dhreh-say)
Was ist das? - What is that? (sounds like: vas ist das?)
Wie geht? - How are you? (sounds like: vee gayt? sort of, flatten out the 'ay' sound)
Wie geht es Ihnen? - How are you? (formal) (sounds like: vee gayt ess Eeh-nen?)
Remember the conjugation of heißen: Ich heiße, du heißt, Er/Es/Sie heißt, wir heißen, ihr heißt, sie heißen, Sie heißen.
And, some answers for the 'how are you' question:
Es geht - I'm well/It goes okay. (sounds like: ess gayt)
Nicht so gut - Not so good. (sounds like: nikt zo goot)
Ganz gut! - Totally good! (sounds like: gahnz goot)
Nouns are gendered. This makes German really, really annoying. I still recommend FreeRice dot com to learn your vocab on, but if you do flash cards, include the particle because otherwise you will be forgetting what gender is which and that will just lead to headaches and dictionaries.
The indefinite/definite (in that order) articles are:
ein/der - male
ein/das - neuter/third gender
eine/die - female
Eine/Die is also used for the plural article.
I seriously recommend using words that entertain you and maybe relate to fandom to start with vocab, if for no other reason than when they ask you to make up sentences like "X is big/small" "Y is old/new", which hopefully we'll get to tomorrow. If my brain cooperates.
Oogh. Okay, that actually worked pretty well, now I have the rest of the night to do writing/editing stuff. Or writing stuff, if I so choose.
So. Oogh again. I think I have stuff for the The Losers set up, which is to say we leave, eh, sort of early in the morning, find the used bookstore Of Doom in Knoxville (I still can't remember where the hell it is, but I'm sure google knows) and raid it, find a place to have lunch, find a movie theatre. Go back probably relatively late, I think, but probably with lots of goodies and memories of pretty pretty people making big big booms.
I have the Maryland trip sort of organized in my head; for those of you in Maryland it's at the Howard County fairgrounds not this weekend but the next weekend. I'll actually be working, so I won't be able to really hang out. Next visit! And after the festival, back to DC to spend time with the family and my grandpa. It'll be fun. And it'll be interesting. I intend to drag as many stories out of them as I can.
And now, kicking back, relaxing, writing, and hopefully eventually reading Night Watch. The Sergei Lukyanenko one, not the Terry Pratchett one.