Shadowing Practice: 50 German Verbs Every Beginner Must Know - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Janusz, we play today a game.

Juhu!

It's a game.

I have here 50 important words for the beginning.

You have ideas.

You have to build 50 sentences.

Very good.

And you must rate, You should stop every verb,

just a video, you write yourself a sentence and you must think about it,

which sentence you write Janusz.

You have 50 attempts.

Let's see how many sentences you get from Janusz's sentence.

I find the idea good.

Thank you, Janusz.

The important thing is that the sentences must be simple.

We make this video for beginners.

No complicated words, no complicated words,

so that you have the chance to understand the words and to erraten.

I would like to say it, what first came to me in the sense.

And you must think about what Janusz Schamerski first comes in the sense.

Let's go!

It's okay, but it's dangerous.

Okay.

Our first verb is SEIN.

I am, you are, you are,

you are, you are, you are.

Here you must stop the video now.

Stop the video now and write your sentence on a paper or on the computer.

Janusz, what is your sentence in your head?

We are happy.

Oh, we are happy.

Second verb. Have.

I have.

You have.

He has.

We have.

You have. Have. Have.

Stop.

Janusz.

I am ready.

That is not a grammatical correct sentence.

Please don't learn this sentence.

And this sentence has no one written.

Where is the sentence?

He comes from an Italian trainer of the German football team.

The trainer is Giovanni Trepatoni from FC Bayern München in the 90s.

And he spoke broken German and he was really scared at a conference.

And then he stood up and cried, I'm done!

That was a funny moment.

Now, Janusz, the new sentence.

I have luck.

Oh, I have luck.

MACHEN.

Ich mache.

Du machst.

Er, sie, es macht.

Wir machen.

Ihr macht.

Sie machen.

Du machst das richtig.

Danke, Janusz.

Ihr habt das Konzept jetzt verstanden.

Es ist ein interaktives Video zum Mitraten und ihr werdet viel mehr lernen,

wenn ihr eure eigenen Sätze schreibt.

Also, schreibt fleißig weiter.

Das nächste Verb gehen Ich gehe, du gehst, er, sie, es geht,

wir gehen, ihr geht, sie gehen.

Das geht nicht.

Sehr gut.

kommen Ich komme, du kommst, er, sie, es kommt, wir kommen, ihr kommt, sie kommen.

Ich komme aus Polen.

Den Satz könnte man geraten haben.

Wohnen.

Ich wohne.

Du wohnst.

Er, sie, es wohnt.

Wir wohnen.

Ihr wohnt.

Sie wohnen.

Wir wohnen in Berlin.

Super einfacher Satz.

Ich bin gespannt, wer den geraten hat.

arbeiten.

Ich arbeite, du arbeitest, er,

sie, es arbeitet, wir arbeiten, ihr arbeitet, sie arbeiten.

Ich arbeite jeden Tag.

Gerne.

Das stimmt nicht.

Grammatikalisch aber schon.

Lernen.

I learn.

You learn.

He, she, she, she learns.

We learn.

You learn.

They learn.

I learn French.

Oh, la la.

Très bien!

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No words here.

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Sprechen.

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Ich spreche.

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Du sprichst.

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Er, sie, es spricht.

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Wir sprechen.

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Ihr sprecht.

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Und sie sprechen.

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Stop!

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Here again the video to hold on. And now Janusz.

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I speak like a good word.

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No, again.

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Cari speaks a lot.

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Yes?

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He speaks a lot.

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Wait.

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Cari speaks a nice German.

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No, you have to help me.

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Janusz speaks Polish.

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sagen ich sage du sagst er sie es sagt wir sagen ihr sagt sie sagen

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kari sagt die wahrheit immer kari ich brauche eine pause zum kaffee trinken Während Janusz eine Pause macht,

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erzähle ich euch, wie ihr noch mehr Deutsch lernen könnt mit Easy German.

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Das, was ihr jetzt gerade macht, mit uns üben, Sätze schreiben,

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das machen wir jede Woche mehrmals in der Easy German Mitgliedschaft.

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Wir haben eine Lernplattform gebaut, da findet ihr all unsere Videos und könnt sogar strukturiert nach Level lernen.

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To all videos there are some of these exercises and some of these exercises are even in our community.

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So you can answer questions in our Discord group.

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You answer questions to our videos and we can see these questions and sometimes even correct them.

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That is a great way to learn interaktive, so like here in the video.

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Janusz, what should you do?

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You have to have fun.

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And you have to be a member of the website.

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Here is the link to our platform.

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You can email me.

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You can try it for a month and see if it makes you fun.

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Now...

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...it's faster.

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We will not read the conjugation anymore.

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You can always click the video on pause and read the conjugation.

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Janusz, the next verb is FRAGEN.

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I ask myself, is it the world at all?

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That asks Janusz sich regelmäßig.

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But correct, I must say,

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the reflexive form is two different verbs.

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You can say, I ask for the way or I ask for myself, if that's true.

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Yes.

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It is both to ask, but in English you see the difference.

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I ask someone, I ask myself.

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Okay, understood.

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Antworten.

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Answer me.

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Oh, Janusz, the Imperativ is not in our list.

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Imperativ means I give you a challenge.

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antworte mir sprich mit mir sag doch was das ist der

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imperativ dazu haben wir auch schon ein ganzes video gemacht das

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verlinken wir hier oben hören kannst du mich hören la la la nein sehen Can you see me?

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Yes, Janusz.

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I am not to see you.

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I see you.

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I read very much.

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I write very much.

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I write very much with the help of chat GPT. And Claude.

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I'm curious if someone of you has this statement.

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Bestimmt!

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Who knows Janusz from our podcast,

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he knows that Janusz always JGBT for everything.

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Essen!

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Glückwunsch!

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Trinken.

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Sie kauft zu viel.

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Ich nicht.

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Du nicht.

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Bezahlen.

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Er bezahlt die Rechnung.

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Brauchen.

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Sie brauchen Geld.

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Wer nicht?

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Suchen.

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Sie sucht nach einem Freund.

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Oha!

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Finden.

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Er findet eine Freundin.

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Oha!

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Ist es ein Match?

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Nein, leider nicht.

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Geben.

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You would like to give.

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Allgemein?

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You would like to give.

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Okay.

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We take what we can.

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Why not?

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schlafen.

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Sie schlafen nicht genug.

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Oh, das ist schlecht.

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Aufstehen.

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Er steht sehr früh auf.

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Guck mal, das ist unser erstes trennbares Verb.

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In der deutschen Sprache gibt es trennbare Verben, The infinitive word is a word.

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And in the conjugation are two words.

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I stand on.

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You stand on.

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He stand on.

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And so on.

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We've already done a video.

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Look at here.

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anfangen sie fängt sofort an anfangen auch ein trennbares verb ich fange jetzt an aufhören

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I can't stop.

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And he can't stop.

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And we can't stop.

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And we can't stop.

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Now you have the verb CANNEL conjugated and not to stop.

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She can't stop.

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That's a good answer, Janusz.

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Yes, so.

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fahren er fährt nach münster das ist ein

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interessantes verb fahren ich fahre aber du fährst er fährt plötzlich

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kommt da ein umlaut ein umlaut rein da diese verben gibt es auch Dein Satz?

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Wir fahren nach Lodz.

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Du hast gerade einen anderen Satz gesagt.

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Ich fahre nach Münster.

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Wenn ihr einen dieser Sätze habt, seid ihr korrekt.

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Janusz, ich bin so gespannt.

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Was denkst du, wie viele Sätze werden unsere Zuschauer erraten?

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Das werden wir später in den Statistiken sehen.

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No, in the comments.

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You must write down the video below how many sentences you have heard.

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But be honest, let's go with laufen.

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Here you see the conjugation and here you hear Janusz's sentence.

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Mir läuft das Wasser im Mund zusammen.

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Oh, das ist ein schwieriger Satz.

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Das ist ein Ausdruck.

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Das Wasser im Mund läuft, wenn man etwas Leckeres sieht.

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Ja.

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Bei welchem Essen läuft dir das Wasser im Mund zusammen?

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Bei Bigos.

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Lecker.

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Pierogi.

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Aha, also nur bei polnischem Essen.

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Ja.

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Bleiben.

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Ich bleibe hier.

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Bringen.

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Kannst du mir bitte ein Liter Milch bringen?

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Okay, aber du willst ein Verb, einen Satz mit bringen machen, nicht mit können.

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Bring me milk please.

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Okay, yes.

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You could say to me.

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Yes, can you say...

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No, not...

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Bring me milk.

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The milk.

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Bring me milk.

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Exactly.

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It sounds a little unholy.

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Can you bring me milk?

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It sounds a bit more.

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Erklären.

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Erklär mir das.

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Verstehen.

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I understand that not.

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Helfen. Can you help me?

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Help me!

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Hilfe!

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Hilf mir!

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Treffen.

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Treffen wir heute unsere Freunde?

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Das machen wir.

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Besuchen.

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Hier seht ihr die Konjugation.

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Und jetzt hört ihr Januschs Satz.

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I visit my friend in Münster.

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Reisen.

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I travel not so much.

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Schade, I travel very much.

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And we always have a conflict.

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A condense, we are then finally understood.

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Also, we have a...

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...Konsens.

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...a conflict and at the end a consensus.

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That means I give back.

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...nachgeben, also an interesting verb.

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Spielen.

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I play guitar, sing and dance.

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Spielen is enough.

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Gitarre spielen.

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I can't.

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Nothing.

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Nothing.

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You can't.

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Oh, okay.

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I can't.

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Deine Mama can't.

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Hey!

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That's a little bit.

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Hello Mama.

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Müssen.

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Hey, wir müssen, wir müssen das überlegen.

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Das.

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Das?

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Das.

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Öffnen.

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Er öffnet die Tür.

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Okay.

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Schließen.

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Sie schließt die Tür.

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Okay.

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Warten.

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Wir warten, bis sie fertig sind mit dem Tür schließen.

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Feiern.

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Ah, ich freue mich.

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Am Freitag feiern wir wieder.

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Am Freitag feiern wir Januschs Geburtstag.

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And Bonus, nachfeiern, is a common verb that you use when you celebrate later.

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Because Janusz had already a birthday.

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So, we celebrate Janusz's birthday after.

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Toll, I'm excited.

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I will all right.

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That would be good.

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lachen.

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Ich lache gerne über dich.

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Danke.

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Ich dachte du magst wenn ich lache.

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Ich mag dein lachen.

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Lachen ist ein Verb und ein Nomen.

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Das lachen und lachen.

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Ja.

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Lieben Janusz.

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Ich I love you.

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Thank you.

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Heißen.

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I'm Janusz Hamerski.

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Super, Janusz!

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That were 50 verbs from the everyday everyday in Germany.

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I hope you have written hard with me.

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I hope you have now 50 sentences written now.

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And now we want to know how many matches there were,

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how often you managed to get Janusz's Sat to tell us a comment here under the video.

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We read all the comments and we hope that you have this exercise with us.

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Janusz, it has really fun.

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I think that we should That's what we should do.

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We should do it again.

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But we speak at the same time.

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Yes!

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Cheers, dear friends!

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See you next time!

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Cheers!

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Okay, we're going to do a break and you say, Cari, I have to do a break.

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And so you learn German from now.

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We pay him for that.

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Top deal.

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All are happy.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “50 German Verbs Every Beginner Must Know”. This video has 351 sentences and 1789 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:29. The speaker talks slowly, about 83 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 53% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
verb noun	/vɝb/	A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
pause noun	/pɔːz/	A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
complicated adjective	/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/	Difficult or convoluted.
everyday adjective	/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/	Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
cheers	/t͡ʃɪəz/	A common toast used when drinking in company.
trainer noun	/ˈtɹeɪnɚ/	A person who trains another; a coach.
guitar noun	/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/	A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
curious adjective	/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/	Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
podcast noun	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…
consensus noun	/kənˈsɛnsəs/	A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
ditch noun	/dɪt͡ʃ/	A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
sage noun	/seɪd͡ʒ/	The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
beginner noun	/bəˈɡɪnɚ/	Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
conjugation noun	/ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/	The coming together of things; a union.
umlaut noun	/ˈʊm.laʊt/	An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
give back verb	To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.).
stand up verb	To rise from a lying or sitting position.
write down verb	To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	We've already done · have heard · have written
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should stop · should you do · should That
Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary	have to build · must rate · must think
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	will not read · will all

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 16 contractions and reduced forms, such as can't, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: conjugation /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/, verstehen /və(ɹ)ˈʃteɪ.ən/
Long words — get the stress right: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, conjugation /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/, grammatical /ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/, infinitive /ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪv/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like verb, pause, complicated.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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