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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 …

Lesson 11 - Die Zukunft The 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 lese…

German Lesson 04 - Geld und Zahlen moneydas GeldEURder EuroCHder Frankenhow much is the book?Wieviel kostet das Buch?Some number exercises Luzern, 17.12.2011 Stephan Wiesner Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspot.comPar Stephan Wiesner

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 drinktrinken…

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+Wiesner Introduction The GermanPodcast.de app provides a German teaching course. It …

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, …

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://testmanager.info/writes/Ojos%20del%20Salado.pdf Ein Lama vor dem V…

In todays lesson of German-Podcast.de, the christmas lesson, I will teach you some colorfull words. red blue green yellow black white brown orange grey gold silver ......................... rot blau grün gelb schwarz weiss braun orange grau gold silber Luzern, 25.12.2009 Stephan Wiesner Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-p…

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 Auvergne There is even a video of the town: Ein Blick auf den einsamen Leuchtturm am Mittelmeer Strand nahe Montpellier. Stephan Wiesner auf dem Le Pont du Gard et l'Aqueduc de Nîmes. …

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 Possesi…

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 a…

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, 26.01.2009 Stephan Wiesner Use this free podcast to learn to s…

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 learni…

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 von Österreich und hat rund 1.7 Millionen Einwohner. Wien ist eine sehr bekannte Stadt, die von vielen Touristen besucht wird. Wie man auf diesem Bild s…

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 Wort…

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 wir von der Zugspitze aus den Jubiläumsgrad machen, aber die Besatzung des M…

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…

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 to…

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,…

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 sho…

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, 13.01.2008 Stephan Wiesner stephan@german-podcast.de Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogspo…

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 podcas…

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, Stephan Use this free podcast to learn to speak German.http://german-podcast.blogsp…

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 .-) Reme…

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 .-) …

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 show…

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, …

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…

Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt. Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier - dann steht das Christkind vor der Tür. [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 …

Geschichten und Vokabeln rund aus dem Leben im Grossraumbüro sind heute an der Reihe... der Kürbis = pumpkin das Grossraumbüro = open-plan office, cube farm das Papier = paper der Schreibtisch = desk der Computer = computer die Tastatur = keyboard der Monitor = screen die Maus = mouse der Bleistift = pencil die Sitzung = meeting das Telefon = telep…

Autumn is about to end. The trees start to seriously drop their leaves and sad and gray November is approaching. Today we will therefore sit down with a cup of tea and some Spekulatius cakes (my favorite) and talk about seasons. Here you see Luzern as we see it at the moment... die Jahreszeit - season der Frühling - spring der Sommer - summer der H…

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 w…

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 village…

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 dif…

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 hom…

Many animals live in the beautiful nature of Switzerland. Here are some of them: Der Alpensalamander Der Steinbock Der Schwan Die Ente Die Eidechse Die Dohle Can 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 th…

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-p…

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.pdf Please 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. Th…

We have Franziska from Freiburg here and she tells you what she loves about the town. Freiburg (frz. Fribourg [fʀiˈbuʀ]) 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 Üechtland verwendet, um Verwechslung mit Freiburg …

Wandern auf dem Bärentrek I went hiking on the famous Bärentrek 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 o…

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 start…

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"…

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 cle…

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 …

Today I will answer some of your questions, like how to pronounce Brötchen and that all Swiss eat Müsli for breakfast. On the picture you can see what I normally eat for breakfast. You can find all you want to know about Brötchen at Wikipedia.de. When asked about his breakfast Toby, a good friend from me, said "brötchen, müsli, böse kellogs oder bö…

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 pod…

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), dafür darf es dann aber beliebig zäh (tough meat) se…

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 Ne…

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.b…

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, ähm, test it with me. So if you live in Switzerland, please feel free to, you know, mhm, apply .-) Lucerne, 17.03.2007 Stephan Wiesner stephan@german-podcast.de Use this free podcast to learn…