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There are a whole host of reasons for learning German, however when I asked my readers, they responded with new and different reasons.
Here are 5 different reasons people learn German (out of the many reasons featured in this episode), in no particular order:
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Ich liebe deutsche Musik. (I love German music.)
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Die Deutschen sind praktisch und das finde ich gut. (Germans are practical and I think that's good.)
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Sprache ist für mich eine große Herausforderung. (German is a big challenge for me.)
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I work with German customers and suppliers.
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I love having a hobby.
Listen here for all the reasons people told me they're learning German:
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Nine Years of GermanWithNicole.com!
Although I've taught German since 2010, I've only taught privately and online since 2013. (Wellllll, it may have actually been 2012, but this was a chance development in my life that turned into a business, so if you won't tell anybody, I won't.)
Today you'll hear
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two short numbers exercises in German,
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a thank you in German followed by the same text in English,
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and then five fantastic German words I've come across in the past few years.
So you can learn the correct spelling, here are the words in a different order:
das Erdmännchen
repetieren
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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. Please feel welcome to listen to the audio with the PDF and repeat it as often as you need or want.
When this was originally published, one of my clients said, "I'm so glad to learn these vocabulary words, because it made me feel like there was something I could do."
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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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There are so many funny words in German and sometimes their meanings are straight-forward, sometimes they are words we might wish we had as English speakers!
Here are 7 funny German words, including two funny German words for animals (real or imagined?!), with slow pronunciation and the meanings of the words.
This episode is great for learners at the A1, A2, and B1 levels, and you might like to sprinkle these in to your regular vocabulay practice.
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