Simon and Bettina talk to people in the streets of Münster. Easy German/ Easy Languages is a non-profit video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English. Find us at: www.easygerman.org/ www.facebook.com/easygermanvideos www.facebook.com/easylanguagestreetinterviews Join our global community: www.theglobalexperience.org www.facebook.com/theglobalexperience Hosts: Simon & Bettina Camera/ Edit: Janusz ------------------------------------------------ The Language Situation scenes are supposed to complement any regular language course by providing a sort of language "street experience". You can see "real" people talking their "real" language. They are all quite taken by surprise in this unusual situation (somebody asking silly questions) and they react very spontaneously. ------------------------------------------------- Hallo! Hi. Wie geht's Ihnen? : How are you doing. Wie - how Geht - it goes 's - short for "es" - it Ihnen - You Gut - good OK - OK Schönen Tag - beautiful day noch - still, yet Danke - Thank you Einfach nur "Hallo" - simple only "Hallo" Hallo - Hello. Schlecht - bad Warum - why Warum schlecht? - Why bad? Was ist los? - What's up. Guten Tag! - Good day. Hatten Sie einen Schönen Tag? - Did you have a good day? Ich habe - I have Du hast - You have Sie hat - She has Er hat - He has Es hat - It has Wir haben - We have Iht habt - You have They have - Sie haben You have - Sie haven (this is the polite form for people you don't know well) Ich hatte - I had Du hattest - You had And so on. Ja, auf jeden Fall - yes, by all means Auf - on Jeden - every (der) Fall - a possibility Ja, gleichfalls - yes, likewise Wie geht's dir - how are you doing Ganz gut - quite alright Ganz - complete, entire Schönen Tag gehabt? - Did you have a beautiful day Ich habe gehabt - I have had Du hast gehabt - You have had Sie hat gehabt - She has had (and so on) Ja, bisher schon - yes, so far yet Ja, dann wünsche ich - yes, then I wish you doch weiter - still noch einen schönen Tag - yet a beautiful day ja, beim Einkaufen - yes, at the shoping Weiter - further viel Spaß - a lot of joy Danke schön - thank you very much Und - and Tschüss! bye bye Schon viel Spaß gehabt hier in der Stadt? - Did you have had a lot of fun in the city yet? (die) Stadt - a city sehr viel - a lot of Sehr - very Saufender Pöbel - drunken mob Sie dürfen mich ruhig duzen - you may as well say you to me (normaly she should address him with the polite "Sie" form - in German you would say: Sie siezt ihn" when she use the informal "Du" form then: "Sie duzt ihn" The joke was that he has proposed this informal way of addressing him after she already did it anyway) Viel Zeit - a lot of time, a long time heute - today in der Stadt - in the city Verbracht = verbringen: to spend Ich verbringe, du verbringst (and so on) Ich habe verbracht, du hast verbracht (and so on) Nee - a colloquial form for "Nein": No nur beim Kaffeetrinken - only by drinking coffee in einem Café - in a café Ein Bisschen - a little Für eine Frau nicht viel - for a women not a lot (eine) Frau - a woman Nicht - not Nee, aber sehr, sehr lange halte ich es auch nicht aus - no, but I don't endure it ver much longer Lang - long Ich halte - i hold Ich halte aus - i endure zu voll - too full Ist das eine Tuba? - is it a tube Ja, ja, eine Tuba - yes, a tube Sieht gut aus - it looks very nice Ich sehe gut aus - I look nice Sie sieht gut aus - She looks nice (and so on) Gut, und selbst? - good and yourself? Ja, gut, danke - yes, good, thank you Hervorragend - brilliant Nein, danke - no, thank you

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