Audio scenario 1:

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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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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Let's take a look at the third sentence. This sentence looks a lot harder, so let's take it apart. Since the pilot just said what the temperature is, wouldn't it also make sense that he also told us what the conditions are like outside. Hence, "das wetter" means the weather. It's like the way you would say it in English but instead of the "th" sound it's just "t". There are 2 more words left in this sentence that are self-explanatory. These words would be "sonnig" and "und" which mean "sunny" and "and" respectfully. The other two words are too hard to figure out this method so "schön" means "beautiful" and  "heute" means "today".

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Let's take a look at the final sentence. How helpful! We already figured a couple of the words. We already know "und", "ist", and "willkommen". That makes deciphering a lot easier. Now, we turn to the beginning. Don't get tripped up, "wenn" does not mean "when". Any guesses as to what it might mean instead? It means "if".

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