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some simple phrases:
Hallo- hello
Auf Wiedersehen- goodbye
Danke or Dankeschön- thank you
vielen Dank- thank you very much
Bitte- please/you're welcome
Bitteschön- you're welcome
Wie geht's?- what's up/how's it going?
Wie alt bist du?- how old are you?
Ich bin___ - I am...
Ich bin Student. - I am a student (male)
Ich bin Studentin. - I am a student (female)
Woher kommst du?- Where are you from?
Ich wohne in... - I live in...
Können Sie mir helfen? - Can you help me?
Entschuldigung- excuse me
Ich habe eine Frage. - I have a question
Wo ist ____? - where is
die Toiletten- bathroom/toilets
Mein Haus ist am Einbahnstrasse - how an American soldier I know who lived off-post embarrassed himself in front of three Germans. (So funny: this poor guy was trying to learn to speak German and this really pretty girl asked him where he lived; to impress her he wanted to say it in German. The sign he always saw heading to work said Einbahnstrasse, so he said that's where he lived. Einbahnstrasse means "one way street." She liked him anyway.)
Ich bin ein Berliner - I am a citizen of Berlin
Eine pfannkuchen, bitte - how to ask for a jelly donut when you live in Berlin
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The Department of Defense makes all soldiers who are newly assigned to Germany take German Headstart--a real short course so we'd know how to ask where the nearest restaurant is and stuff like that. The first exercise was on how to get to a streetcar stop. It went,
American: "Entschuldigen Sie, bitte. Wo ist der Strassenbahn?" (excuse me, please, where is the streetcar?)
German: "Gehen Sie geraudeaus. Die erste Strasse links, dann die zweite rechts." (go straight ahead, take the first left then the second right.)
Unfortunately, they made ME be the German guy in this exercise and I was in West Berlin, so this is how it went...
American: "Entschuldigen Sie, bitte. Wo ist der Strassenbahn?"
Me: "Im Ost-Berlin." (Which is where the streetcars WERE--they'd all been torn out of West Berlin in the late 1960s.)
That wasn't the answer they wanted.
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