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This one's about authenticity and integrity.
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8. You only have to follow two rules in my classroom.
9. You will encounter authentic elements of Germanic culture, not terrible clichés.
10. You'll learn real German.
11. You won't ever have to put up with me becoming a poser making myself into a social media influencer.
German National Athem (sung by yours truly): https://www.germanwithnicole.com/blog/what-is-the-german-national-anthem
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Yep, still more differences between me and other German teachers.
Ganz genau.
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5. Not everyone learns German the same way, people need to receive the information in different ways, thus I will utilize every tool, resource, perspective, and analogy I can possibly think of to assist you in understanding German and learning how to speak it.
6. I won't shame you for not getting your homework done.
7. I'll give you permission to learn German. (Including all the permission you ever wanted!)
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This three-part series is great for you if you are still trying to figure out just how I (Frau Warner) am different from other German teachers.
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I'm not a native German speaker, I'm a German learner who became a German teacher.
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I'm a Third Culture Adult. (If you've spent any significant amount of time in a German-speaking country or have (a) German-speaking parent(s), I get you.)
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I won't give you unrealistic expectations and I'll be patient with you.
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I'm most interested in what you CAN do, not what you can't do.
The CEFR (Central European Framework Reference for Languages) explained: https://www.germanwithnicole.com/blog/58068-what-is-a1-a2-b1-b2-c1-c2-in-german-learning
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How to say (the) Ukraine/in the Ukraine in German, plus how to say Ukranians, women and men, and more.
The text of this podcast is below.
There is also a free PDF download for you here, it contains all of the vocabulary words from the blog text/episode.
If you have another question about how to say something in the Ukraine, please scroll down and leave your question as a comment. I'll respond within 24-48 hours.
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die Ukraine – the name of the country, with an article, it happens to be 'die.'
To go into the Ukraine, any kind of action, is “in die Ukraine fahren,” for example.
A Ukranian woman is die Ukrainerin. Die Ukrainerin. Plural form: die Ukrainerinnen die Ukrainerinnen
A Ukranian man is der Ukrainer der Ukrainer Plural form: die Ukrainer.
Plural Ukranian women and men together is also die Ukrainer. To specify Ukranian women and Ukranian men, then you use “die Ukrainerinnen und die Ukrainer.”
Ukranian (meaning the language) is das Ukrainisch das Ukrainisch
That's the same to describe anything Ukrainian as an adjective, ukrainisch.
For example a Ukrainian city is eine ukrainische Stadt.
If anything is in the Ukraine, meaning its position is in the Ukraine, then you have to use the Dative case.
Thus die changes to der, and you get “in der Ukraine.” “in der Ukraine.”
Die Stadt Kiew liegt in der Ukraine. Die Stadt Kiew liegt in der Ukraine.
Refer back to the action of traveling:
Wir reisen in die Ukraine.
People fleeing the Ukraine are part of the “die Flucht aus der Ukraine” - so aus is always followed by Dativ, aus der Ukraine.
To say “The Ukraine War” in German is “Der Ukraine-Krieg” with a hyphen.
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(Note: There are no swear words in this post.)
Are you surprised that you should learn German swear words? You shouldn’t be.
What German language lover or German learner doesn't want to learn German swear words?!
German, like every language, has its own profanity.
It's plain offensive.
So why would I teach you swear words in German? Why would I enable you to potentially offend someone?!
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