You have just landed in Munich, Germany. As you are about to pull into the gate, you here one last announcement over the intercom.
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Listen: Airplane intercom announcement
Transcript:
Hallo und willkommen in München! Die Temperatur ist einundzwanzig Grad. Das Wetter ist schön und sonnig heute. Wenn dies Ihr Endziel ist, wir hoffen, dass Sie München genießen, und wenn sie hier wohnen, willkommen zurück!
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Listen: Airplane intercom announcement
Transcript:
Hallo und willkommen in München! Die Temperatur ist einundzwanzig Grad. Das Wetter ist schön und sonnig heute. Wenn dies Ihr Endziel ist, wir hoffen, dass Sie München genießen, und wenn sie hier wohnen, willkommen zurück!
*Transcripts for audio will only be available early on
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There were a lot of words in that announcement, and it looks very intimidating. Let's try connecting the words to English so that it's less intimidating, and then go over the grammar rules that are present in that block so you can understand what is going on.
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First and foremost, we should clarify all of the transparent words. Hallo is pretty self-explanatory for example. Hallo means Hello. Willkommen may or may not also come pretty naturally. It means welcome. In also predictably means in. One last word that fits in this category is Temperatur which means ... temperature. Now let's move onto the harder words.
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If the flight attendant is saying both hello and welcome, we can probably assume that und means and (thus hello and welcome). Now we know most of the first sentence. The last word we must figure out is München. Where else could you be welcomed to but Munich. It must mean Munich.
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Now what is happening in the second sentence. Well, at the very least we know they're talking about the temperature. We can even make that: "The temperature" because you wouldn't just say "temperature is" (this makes "die temperatur", "the temperature"). You may have just been clued in on what "ist" means. It in fact means "is". Now for the last two words. Difficult right? Click continue for the breakdown of these words.
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Unfortunately, this is giving you an early introduction to crazy world of German numbers. This rule will be explained in the next lesson, but the word "zwanzig" means twenty and "ein" means one, however when you combine these words, instead of the English way of saying Twenty-one, they say "one and twenty", hence "einundzwanzig". Lastly, you can probably guess the word "grad"; it just means degrees.
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Unfortunately, this is giving you an early introduction to crazy world of German numbers. This rule will be explained in the next lesson, but the word "zwanzig" means twenty and "ein" means one, however when you combine these words, instead of the English way of saying Twenty-one, they say "one and twenty", hence "einundzwanzig". Lastly, you can probably guess the word "grad"; it just means degrees.
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