Hallo alle zusammen!
Thank you all so much for coming and making our class so well-attended and successful. Email me (Jesse) with any questions, comments, or suggestions: clearyjd@gmail.com
For HOMEFUN as they’re calling it these days, I’ve recorded myself reading through die Zahlen (the numbers), the dialogue between George and Mia, and vocabulary on parts of the face (I begin at the top left, work to the bottom, and begin again at the top right). Please download the mp3 files and repeat after me to practice each word. Read along with the handouts (also linked to in this post) so you can hear and visualize the words at once. Also study the advanced questions at the bottom of the das Gesicht handout and see what words you can recognize! Have FUN!
- Die Zahlen: Recording / Handout
- Dialogue between George and Mia: Recording / Handout
- Das Gesicht: Recording / Handout
Here’s what we covered today:
- The “ß” in German makes the sound “ss”
- We went over and acted out a dialogue between George and Mia using phrases to introduce yourself and request information from others including what someone’s name is, where they’re from, and where they live:
- Wie heißt du? (Ich heiße Jesse!)
- Woher kommst du? (Ich komme aus Kentucky!)
- Wo wohnst du? (Ich wohne in Monterey!)
- We discussed the verb heißen (to be called) in all its different present tense conjugations, along with personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.):
- ich heiße (I am called)
- du heißt (you are called) informal, singular
- er/sie/es heißt (he/she/it is called)
- wir heißen (we are called)
- ihr heißt (you are called) informal, plural
- sie heißen (they are called)
- Sie heißen (you are called) formal, singular and plural
- We discussed the three singular articles in German and the one plural article, noting that all nouns in German carry an article and that all nouns in plural form carry the same article:
- der (masculine)
- die (feminine)
- das (neuter)
- die (plural)
- We went over die Zahlen, the numbers, emphasizing eins through zehn and touching on elf through zwanzig:
- 1 eins, 2 zwei, 3 drei, 4 vier, 5 fünf, 6 sechs, 7 sieben, 8 acht, 9 neun, 10 zehn
- 11 elf, 12 zwölf, 13 dreizehn, 14 vierzehn, 15 fünfzehn, 16 sechzehn, 17 siebzehn, 18 achtzehn, 19 neunzehn, 20 zwanzig
- We also used the phrase ich habe _______ in groups to express having a certain number of an object, be it drei Kerzen or zehn Zehen. Look at your handout to practice these vocabulary words. =]
- Finally, I handed out a vocabulary sheet with das Gesicht, the face.