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hi guys Alouette welcome back to another
german session
today's topic is this survival german
okay for those of you who are only going
on vacation to Germany or who are just
going on a short business trip or for
those of you who are only planning to
stay a temporary time in Germany this
lesson is going to be very useful for
you because we're not going to go very
deep into the German language I'm just
going to teach you the most essential
phrases that you need to know in order
to survive in Germany okay alright let's
get started the first very important
phrase that you need to know is guten
tach because I'm sure you're going to be
using this a lot if you go into a store
like a very small store like a boutique
or something you would be using that
phrase or wherever you go to greet
someone and you're bound to greet people
that who you don't know so in that case
you would always be using guten tag
all right ever covered all the different
greetings in another video so I'm not
going to cover all the greediest
greetings right now just the most
important ones okay so we have guten
morgen guten tag guten abend
okay this is a four these are three
formal greetings and then we have handle
- you know people younger people kids or
just if you are in a more relaxed
environment you would say huddle then if
you want to say goodbye you would say
I'll feed us in alright which is also
used in a formal environment or whenever
you're talking to strangers well then we
also have cheese which is an informal
way of saying goodbye alright so those
are the most important phrases guten
morgen guten tag guten abend hallo
choose Alfie does in alright ok let's go
over to the next point so um you're
going to want to say excuse me
whenever you're asking someone a
question or if you want to know the way
how to get to a place
whenever you're asking a stranger
question you want to you will want to
use the the phrase excuse me in German
we say and chew legal and surely come
alright so when you're going up to
someone you would be saying it in this
intonation and surely go on and surely
go alright ok of course after that
you're going to have to say something so
most of the time you're going to be
looking for a place like a train station
or a subway station or a museum or a gas
station whatever and I'm going to and
give you the most important locations
that you need to know ok so first of all
um many tourists are always looking for
the train station ok so in that case you
would be saying Asuka Dane van wolf
which means I'm looking for the train
station Asuka I'm looking Dane ban off
the train station ok Asuka den ban off
so the complete phrase would be ensure
Lagoon Hozuki didn't ban wolf alright
and surely gone he's occurred in bad
wolf ok I'll say that very slowly and
surely goon he saw her Dean ban wolf
okay alright next one and truly gone his
or her did Tong Stella excuse me I'm
looking for the gas station okay and
truly gone
he's Okada tank Stella okay now D is a
definite article I'm covering different
articles in another video as well if you
want to say I'm looking for a gas
station as opposed to I'm looking for
the gas station you would be saying
ensure lagoon Asuka I'm a tank Stella
itsuka and a tank Stella okay alright
next one if you're looking for hotel you
would be saying ensure Lagoon ishizuka
does hotel via Yahoo site and truly goon
Asuka does Hotel feel Yahoo side okay
I'll say that very slowly and surely
goon
Zuka does hotel fear
yeah the seitan all right okay
most of you are going to be looking for
an ATM when you're here in Germany
okay so the phrase would be unsure
Lagoon
Azuga island get Auto Martin and surely
gone
itsuka even get Auto Martin okay I'm
going to say it real slow and sure
Lagoon ish
Zuka Ayman get out to Martin okay
subway stations are also very common in
big cities such as Berlin or cologne or
Munich okay so the phrase would have to
be ensure Lagoon azúcar D open hyatt
Estella and sure lagoon is Hozuki D open
hi - Stella I'm going to say real slow
and sure lagoon a zoo huh D Oban hell -
Stella okay which means subway station
do you burn heart Estella means the
subway station okay now you might be
looking for the city center
okay in German city center is D inin
stud so the phrase would be and surely
gone azúcar D in instead he's okay d
inin stud
okay you might be looking for a travel
agency
okay so the phrase would be ensure
lagoon Hozuki I'm Eliza Brujo and surely
gone I saw her
I'm a rise above all okay I'm going to
say Russell and sure lagoon is Zuka I am
a geyser bevel
now you might be looking for a
supermarket all right
the phrase would be and surely gone
Hozuki island supermarket and surely
gone Zuka and supermarket and Russell
and surely gone ish Zucca island
supermarket all right
okay if you want to look for bakery you
would have to ask Aunt Shirley goon
asuka a Nabokov a bazooka and abaca by
alright okay
another very important phrase you will
need to know how to say is could you
please help me
alright this is very important so in
that case you would be saying and
Shirley goon kontin's amoeba to health
and Shirley goon kontin's amoeba to
heaven
okay and I'm gonna say it also and
Shirley Gong Contin Xenia bitter heaven
okay
you could also say um excuse me I have a
question right in that case you would
have to say and Shirley Gong acaba of
Hager and sure lagoon is Hobbiton of
kaga okay now if you're in store and you
want to know the price of an item you
would have to ask the salesperson for
instance and surely own beef your costed
us excuse me how much is this okay
and surely room we fit costed us and
truly gone we feel costed does okay so
if you want to ask if you can pay in
cash you would be asking this can is bad
solemn can is bad solid or if you want
to use your credit card you can ask can
admit Carter salmon can admit Carter
Salim okay if you want to know if you
can use a specific card you can just
name the card okay so you can say can
admit American Express solemn knish Mid
American Express silen okay now you
might want to ask someone what time it
is okay in that case you would be asking
and Chittagong Kenzie Mia the outsides
Argan and Chu lagoon canons amia d what
side zagging now if this is too long for
you I understand there's a simpler
phrase you can use you can also say
and surely gone we fill worst us and
surely gone we fill wha is s okay I'm
going to make another video in the
future about the hundreds of ways you
can say thank you Germany there are many
in many ways I'm just going to teach you
the basic ones okay so if you want to
say thank you it's dunker danke danke
another way of saying thank you is
darkish should danke Schon which means
thank you very much or you can also say
danke Xia dong Kezia which also means
thank you very much okay so with danke
danke Schon darn Kezia okay um now if
you're helping out someone else and he's
telling you thank you very much danke
Schon danke sehr or danke you can say
gana gana or you can say petition bitte
Schon okay um you might want to know how
to say the numbers from one to ten
there's also another video on numbers
which I'm going to publish soon um but I
think for survival German knowing the
numbers from one to ten is sufficient
okay all right so I'm going to go
through that I serve I did I Thea fun
Zechs Z bond at nine seen I'm going to
go through that real slow eins zwei drei
vier funf sechs Sieben acht nine sin
okay and one more time real quick eins
zwei drei vier funf sechs
Sieben acht nine sin that's it okay and
one more thing the German currency or
the European currency is pronounced oh
ho oh oh ho okay the EU and German is
pronounced oh I oh ho okay CIN oh ho
10 euros seen over now you can't go to
Germany without knowing how to say yes
and no all right so German we say yeah
for yes and 9 for no yeah 9 yeah 9 okay
that's really if someone is giving you
directions he's probably gonna be
pointing in a lot of different
directions because he's gonna know that
you don't speak German fluently or you
might not understand so I'm he's gonna
be pointing and he might be saying left
and right a lot or straight so I'm going
to teach you those words links means
left arrests means right links arrests
links aggressions and straight would be
give that a house give that a house okay
one more time
links let's give that house links
arrests give that house so I hope you're
able to survive in Germany now that I've
taught you the most basic phrases well
of course it's not sufficient in order
to communicate on every level even for
two weeks but it's going to give you um
it's gonna make you feel more secure I
think at least okay thank you for
watching
ode this but cheese
german session
today's topic is this survival german
okay for those of you who are only going
on vacation to Germany or who are just
going on a short business trip or for
those of you who are only planning to
stay a temporary time in Germany this
lesson is going to be very useful for
you because we're not going to go very
deep into the German language I'm just
going to teach you the most essential
phrases that you need to know in order
to survive in Germany okay alright let's
get started the first very important
phrase that you need to know is guten
tach because I'm sure you're going to be
using this a lot if you go into a store
like a very small store like a boutique
or something you would be using that
phrase or wherever you go to greet
someone and you're bound to greet people
that who you don't know so in that case
you would always be using guten tag
all right ever covered all the different
greetings in another video so I'm not
going to cover all the greediest
greetings right now just the most
important ones okay so we have guten
morgen guten tag guten abend
okay this is a four these are three
formal greetings and then we have handle
- you know people younger people kids or
just if you are in a more relaxed
environment you would say huddle then if
you want to say goodbye you would say
I'll feed us in alright which is also
used in a formal environment or whenever
you're talking to strangers well then we
also have cheese which is an informal
way of saying goodbye alright so those
are the most important phrases guten
morgen guten tag guten abend hallo
choose Alfie does in alright ok let's go
over to the next point so um you're
going to want to say excuse me
whenever you're asking someone a
question or if you want to know the way
how to get to a place
whenever you're asking a stranger
question you want to you will want to
use the the phrase excuse me in German
we say and chew legal and surely come
alright so when you're going up to
someone you would be saying it in this
intonation and surely go on and surely
go alright ok of course after that
you're going to have to say something so
most of the time you're going to be
looking for a place like a train station
or a subway station or a museum or a gas
station whatever and I'm going to and
give you the most important locations
that you need to know ok so first of all
um many tourists are always looking for
the train station ok so in that case you
would be saying Asuka Dane van wolf
which means I'm looking for the train
station Asuka I'm looking Dane ban off
the train station ok Asuka den ban off
so the complete phrase would be ensure
Lagoon Hozuki didn't ban wolf alright
and surely gone he's occurred in bad
wolf ok I'll say that very slowly and
surely goon he saw her Dean ban wolf
okay alright next one and truly gone his
or her did Tong Stella excuse me I'm
looking for the gas station okay and
truly gone
he's Okada tank Stella okay now D is a
definite article I'm covering different
articles in another video as well if you
want to say I'm looking for a gas
station as opposed to I'm looking for
the gas station you would be saying
ensure lagoon Asuka I'm a tank Stella
itsuka and a tank Stella okay alright
next one if you're looking for hotel you
would be saying ensure Lagoon ishizuka
does hotel via Yahoo site and truly goon
Asuka does Hotel feel Yahoo side okay
I'll say that very slowly and surely
goon
Zuka does hotel fear
yeah the seitan all right okay
most of you are going to be looking for
an ATM when you're here in Germany
okay so the phrase would be unsure
Lagoon
Azuga island get Auto Martin and surely
gone
itsuka even get Auto Martin okay I'm
going to say it real slow and sure
Lagoon ish
Zuka Ayman get out to Martin okay
subway stations are also very common in
big cities such as Berlin or cologne or
Munich okay so the phrase would have to
be ensure Lagoon azúcar D open hyatt
Estella and sure lagoon is Hozuki D open
hi - Stella I'm going to say real slow
and sure lagoon a zoo huh D Oban hell -
Stella okay which means subway station
do you burn heart Estella means the
subway station okay now you might be
looking for the city center
okay in German city center is D inin
stud so the phrase would be and surely
gone azúcar D in instead he's okay d
inin stud
okay you might be looking for a travel
agency
okay so the phrase would be ensure
lagoon Hozuki I'm Eliza Brujo and surely
gone I saw her
I'm a rise above all okay I'm going to
say Russell and sure lagoon is Zuka I am
a geyser bevel
now you might be looking for a
supermarket all right
the phrase would be and surely gone
Hozuki island supermarket and surely
gone Zuka and supermarket and Russell
and surely gone ish Zucca island
supermarket all right
okay if you want to look for bakery you
would have to ask Aunt Shirley goon
asuka a Nabokov a bazooka and abaca by
alright okay
another very important phrase you will
need to know how to say is could you
please help me
alright this is very important so in
that case you would be saying and
Shirley goon kontin's amoeba to health
and Shirley goon kontin's amoeba to
heaven
okay and I'm gonna say it also and
Shirley Gong Contin Xenia bitter heaven
okay
you could also say um excuse me I have a
question right in that case you would
have to say and Shirley Gong acaba of
Hager and sure lagoon is Hobbiton of
kaga okay now if you're in store and you
want to know the price of an item you
would have to ask the salesperson for
instance and surely own beef your costed
us excuse me how much is this okay
and surely room we fit costed us and
truly gone we feel costed does okay so
if you want to ask if you can pay in
cash you would be asking this can is bad
solemn can is bad solid or if you want
to use your credit card you can ask can
admit Carter salmon can admit Carter
Salim okay if you want to know if you
can use a specific card you can just
name the card okay so you can say can
admit American Express solemn knish Mid
American Express silen okay now you
might want to ask someone what time it
is okay in that case you would be asking
and Chittagong Kenzie Mia the outsides
Argan and Chu lagoon canons amia d what
side zagging now if this is too long for
you I understand there's a simpler
phrase you can use you can also say
and surely gone we fill worst us and
surely gone we fill wha is s okay I'm
going to make another video in the
future about the hundreds of ways you
can say thank you Germany there are many
in many ways I'm just going to teach you
the basic ones okay so if you want to
say thank you it's dunker danke danke
another way of saying thank you is
darkish should danke Schon which means
thank you very much or you can also say
danke Xia dong Kezia which also means
thank you very much okay so with danke
danke Schon darn Kezia okay um now if
you're helping out someone else and he's
telling you thank you very much danke
Schon danke sehr or danke you can say
gana gana or you can say petition bitte
Schon okay um you might want to know how
to say the numbers from one to ten
there's also another video on numbers
which I'm going to publish soon um but I
think for survival German knowing the
numbers from one to ten is sufficient
okay all right so I'm going to go
through that I serve I did I Thea fun
Zechs Z bond at nine seen I'm going to
go through that real slow eins zwei drei
vier funf sechs Sieben acht nine sin
okay and one more time real quick eins
zwei drei vier funf sechs
Sieben acht nine sin that's it okay and
one more thing the German currency or
the European currency is pronounced oh
ho oh oh ho okay the EU and German is
pronounced oh I oh ho okay CIN oh ho
10 euros seen over now you can't go to
Germany without knowing how to say yes
and no all right so German we say yeah
for yes and 9 for no yeah 9 yeah 9 okay
that's really if someone is giving you
directions he's probably gonna be
pointing in a lot of different
directions because he's gonna know that
you don't speak German fluently or you
might not understand so I'm he's gonna
be pointing and he might be saying left
and right a lot or straight so I'm going
to teach you those words links means
left arrests means right links arrests
links aggressions and straight would be
give that a house give that a house okay
one more time
links let's give that house links
arrests give that house so I hope you're
able to survive in Germany now that I've
taught you the most basic phrases well
of course it's not sufficient in order
to communicate on every level even for
two weeks but it's going to give you um
it's gonna make you feel more secure I
think at least okay thank you for
watching
ode this but cheese
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