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When you first learn German - or first start learning German - you say everything in the present tense. You learn only a little bit of the past tense, mainly the two verbs here, and then later you learn the Perfekt, or the spoken past tense (Ich bin gefahren. Wir haben ein Buch gelesen.).
This is the order you would ideally learn everything in:
Present tense --> these two verbs --> a bunch of the Perfekt
If you learn the past tense in any other order than that, it is out of order.
No exceptions.
If you've jumped from the present to the Perfekt, or you don't have a handle on these two verbs, then press pause on the Perfekt and get a good handle on these two first.
Why?
Because they are the easiest, most widely used and easy to understand past tense verbs in German.
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Here is a short exercise for you to practice two separable verbs in German: einatmen and ausatmen.
You may have noticed these two verbs in a blog post earlier this month, and to help you learn them even better, you'll use them in this exercise.
This may be the most relaxing German separable verbs exercise you'll find on the interwebs.
Separable verbs are not hard to understand, however learning to use them takes practice and time. For the purposes of this first section, we'll use two separable verbs in the present tense – so we'll use them to talk about now.
Right now.
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Today you get to learn separable verbs (trennbare Verben) just like one of my German clients!
This is a technique I've used with dozens of German learners and it makes separable verbs a kinaesthetic exercise--and that in two different ways.
You'll need print out or write out some cards, and to have one supply to have ready when you start the video.
Los geht's!
Step 1: Print out or make these cards of trennbare Verben
Download this PDF of 4x6 cards and print them.
If you can't print them, simply open the PDF and use small cards of slips of paper and write them out like they are on the cards.
Your cards don't need to be perfect, they simply need to be made.
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Meet the Milwaukee Pretzel Company!
They make pretzels--German pretzels!
They make them here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
You can have them shipped to you!
These are the best pretzels I've eaten outside of Germany.
When you visit one of their stands here in Milwaukee you'll likely have a chance to eat their Obatzda, which is a delicious, Bavarian cheese specialty made with camembert, butter, a splash of beer, onion, and paprika. And yes, their Obatzda is also the best Obatzda I've had outside of Bavaria.
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Plus one immune booster used often in Germany.
Being sick is a drag in any language. Your throat gets scratchy, it hurts, you get all phlegmy...you feel awful, you're tired, and you miss out on work, time with your friends, your family. What a drag.
Now more than ever we've become aware of taking very good care of ourselves when we get sick. Here are a couple of German lozenges you might not have heard of that are excellent to have on hand.
You can order them from the Smallflower.com Apothecary in Chicago, which was originally founded by a German in 1875! Affiliate link
You'll also read about an immune booster that's made from a geranium that's native to South Africa. I first found out about it in Germany.
Es ist verboten to advertise medicine in Germany.
Ja, das stimmt. There are no commercials that end with creepy lists of side effects like "hair loss, loss of smell, diarrhea, or even death."
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