Hello! In this episode of the Better German podcast, we're going to talk about German weather words. words like "cloudy, sunny, the sky," and things like that. Yeah, so let's jump right into it. Let's get started. So as always, repeat after me. What I'm going to do though, at the end when we have gone through everything, I'm going to repeat it one more time. So the first word obviously has to be "weather." In German, this is "das Wetter" "das Wetter" And then let's go to "the sun" "die Sonne" "die Sonne." You could say "die Sonne" or "die Sonne," that's up to you really. Okay. And then you could say a sentence like, "die sonne scheint." That means "the sun is shining." So we need the word "scheinen" that's "to shine," and then you could say "die sonne scheint" "die sonne scheint" Then I think the next obvious one would be, der Regen, the Rain. der Regen der Regen And "to rain" is "regnen" "regnen." Then you could say something like "it's raining," "es regnet." es regnet.. More literally translated, it's "it rains." That's because we do not have an -ing form in German. Like in German, when you have a sentence like "it rains" You could say like "It rains a lot in summer or in winter" and "it's raining," like "It's raining right now," there is no difference in form. The only difference, if you want to say a difference about that it's either coming out of context, like when you look outside and out the window and you say, okay, "it's raining," "es regnet," then that's probably enough context for a verbal communication. Other than that, you just do it with adding words. Something you could still do in English, but you wouldn't have to, like, you could say "It's raining right now," and then you could say in German, if you want to say that, "Es regnet gerade" "gerade" means in this case, "right now" Good, next word is "the cloud." " die Wolke" " die Wolke" And if you want to say it's cloudy, we can say, "es ist bewölkt" " bewölkt" I don't want to do this too long. By the way, if you are interested in a more complete list of like about 30 words. I'm never doing 30 words in one podcast because I think it's too much for one episode. But anyway, this is part of the "Get Talking" course. This is a list that we are covering in my "Get Talking" course. In the "Get Talking" or "Get Talking German" course. That is my course for beginners or for people who haven't yet managed to speak. So, if you either are a beginner or if you have learned German before but you haven't managed speaking, then this course might be for you. If you want to know, there's a placement exam available, but you'll hear about that. Okay, good. So let's continue. So if we have clouds and rain, it is very probable that we also have wind, and that is a good one in German because that's simply "der Wind," so there isn't really any difference. "der Wind." And then if you want to say it's windy, you would say in German "es ist windig" " es ist windig." Vienna, by the way, is a very, very windy city, and interesting enough, the name of the city of Vienna, the first city that was here as far as we know, was a Roman city 2000 years ago. So it was originally, basically a Roman camp and there was a big civil city about a hundred kilometers east of Vienna, what is Vienna now. Anyway, the name of the camp was Vindobona. You would think that it has something to do with wind, but as far as we know, that's not the derivation of it. By the way, also very recently, that's a development of the last few years, they have found out that this wasn't really just a military camp as they thought, but there was actually quite a big civil city attached to Vindobona, this camp, as well. If you are interested in that and if you travel to Vienna, you can go to the Vienna Museum that has just been rebuilt and reopened relatively recently, and it's free. This is not usual. In the us this is I think the case, quite a lot, but in Austria and Germany, this is not the usual concept. The usual concept with museums is that you pay, entry, but the Vienna Museum is actually one of those, that they've tried a different concept and it's free and only special, like exhibitions that are not free. But I'm going to have actually, at some point, I don't think I have it scheduled yet, but I'm going to mention a little bit more about the Vienna Museums in the Vienna episode that is coming up. That is episode 77. We are now in the episode 65 So 77 is a Vienna episode. All right! So let's carry on. That's "windy." And then what can happen if it's windy and raining a lot, of course we could have a thunderstorm, and that is in German "ein Gewitter." "das Gewitter" "das Gewitter" Now, technically you don't have to have rain for a "Gewitter." You could just have thunder and lightning. Usually we have rain, but for sure we have "thunder." "das ist (that is) der Donner" "der Donner" And then of course we have "lightning." "der Blitz," "der Blitz" Maybe you're interested in the weather in Germany and Austria. I mean generally in the weather in Germany and Austria is not hugely different. Yes, way, way, way up in the north of Germany, it is a little different because they have the sea there and the only area within the German-speaking area where you have sea is at the very, very north of Germany. And I'm sure that that makes it a little different, so it's a little cooler, but overall the weather in all of the German-speaking area, while not the same at any given day is similar. We have four seasons. We have cold winters. It can snow anywhere in the German-speaking area, more or less. And there's usually more snow in the countryside. In. The mountains. So in, Vienna, we don't get as much snow as in the other parts of Austria because Vienna is kind of like the most eastern part in the most eastern part of Austria, and it's flat, relatively flat here. So we only have low mountains, so to say. But two thirds of Austria are covered by the Alps. These are high mountains. Some of the Alps have permanent snow and ice, they have glaciers, even though they are definitely shrinking. They're becoming smaller. But, it's still, colder areas there. And we have hot summers, on the other hand. They're not as hot or as humid, for example, like Florida would be, or, the Caribbeans would be, but it's hot, and we have summers that can have almost two months where we're well above 30 degrees, and I think we even hit 40 degrees for the first time couple of years ago. We usually don't have 40 degrees, so when it's very hot, it's usually maximum 35, but it's becoming hotter and it's becoming hotter for long times. The thing that I have to say about Austrian or specifically Viennese summers, but I think it's similar in, all of the areas that are not very high in the mountains, it has become hotter and up until recently it wasn't quite as hot. For example, in, in the eighties, we had less hot days than we have now. Not all houses, only the very modern houses —the hotels usually have— have air condition. So if you go to a bed and breakfast and you come to Vienna, you have to make sure that it has air condition if that's something that you want. Hotels usually all have air conditions. everything that is a four-star hotel or above has air condition, but, private apartments don't generally have air condition. And in summer that can be very hot, not just because of the 35 degrees during the day, but because, at night, it doesn't really cool off. If it doesn't get lower than 20 degrees at night, it's not enough time for the hot, apartment to cool off. So when you come here and you come in summer and this is something that you don't like, then make sure that you book a hotel or whatever your accommodation is, that they actually have air condition. Okay, good! So let's do a few more descriptive words. So if it's hot in summer, that's "heiß" "heiß" And "cold" would be "kalt." "kalt" And "warm" is "warm" "warm" Then particularly in autumn, but sometimes also in spring, it can be very like wet, meaning we have a lot of rain and that is "nass" "wet." It's "nass," "nass." If it's not "nass," it's "dry," and that is "trocken," "trocken." All right, so let's repeat just the words without the chitchat, and I'm going to give you one more sentence with every one of the words. So repeat it after me. "The weather" "das Wetter" "das Wetter" "The weather is good today." "Das Das Wetter ist gut heute." "Das Wetter ist gut heute." "The sun" die Sonne die Sonne. "The sun is shining a lot in July." "Die Sonne scheint oft im Juli." "Die Sonne scheint oft im Juli," By the way, I am always uploading a transcript with the episodes, and usually, at least on Apple podcast, you should be able to see the transcript. If you can't, you can always go to the actual podcast page. You find that this is episode 65, so you find it at bettergerman.info/65, and then there is also a transcript there, but there is a transcript and it is probably a good idea to follow it. You can for sure look up how the words are written there and so on. Good! Let's carry on. So we already used the word in the sentence before, but anyway, "shine" "to Shine" is "scheinen." " scheinen" All right. "Rain." "der Regen," "der Regen" "It is raining today." "Es regnet heute," "Es regnet heute" "The cloud" is "die Wolke" "die Wolke" "It wasn't cloudy today." "Es war heute nicht bewölkt." "Es war heute nicht bewölkt" "The wind." "der Wind," "der Wind" " windy." "Windig" "Windig" "In Vienna, there is a lot of wind." "In Wien gibt es viel Wind." So, by the way, I've used this expression, "gibt, es gibt oder (or) gibt es" So "there is," or "there are" in English is usually translated except for in some special context maybe. Or you can translate it with "es gibt" "es gibt" literally means "it gives." Now if you ever hear somebody who's not native English saying "it gives" particularly who's German, then you know they mean 'there is", "there are." Okay, so once more, when "I say there is a lot of wind in Vienna," "Es gibt viel Wind in Wien" Another way of saying it is, you could say, "Vienna is a windy city." "Wien ist eine windige Stadt." "Wien ist eine windige Stadt" Good! Then we had "the thunderstorm" "das Gewitter" "Some people are afraid of thunderstorms." "Manche Leute fürchten sich sich vor Gewittern "Manche Leute fürchten sich vor Gewittern" So literally "sich fürchten" means to "fear oneself." I guess that's a literal translation, and that means "to be afraid." That's how we say, "to be afraid." Literally, "Some people fear themselves of thunderstorms." That's how you would say it. I have to take a note of this. This is a German specialty. We have a lot of verbs that, they're called reflexive words, We have that too in English where if you say "You can wash yourself," and you use this "oneself" because you are really saying, you are washing yourself as opposed to washing the baby or the car or whatever. But in, German, we have a lot of them. This can be confusing, but it's only confusing if you don't know what it is. So I just remembered and I'm putting it on my list, to make an episode about that. This is going to take a while because I have a lot of them scheduled. If you need it earlier, I am starting, a, VIP podcast membership. So for a very small fee you can get episodes earlier because I'm always recording them earlier. So you can get access to episodes earlier and you can vote on the next episodes or on episodes that are upcoming or put in requests for episodes and once a month, there is a special episode that is only for VIP members. So if you're interested in that, go to bettergerman.info/vip. We're starting that in April and I'm actually making this episode with, the verbs that are reflexive verbs, like sich fürchten, one of them that is going to be in there early because otherwise, I just don't have any room in my schedule anytime soon for an episode with that. Okay, good! Let's continue. So we said "Some people are afraid of thunderstorms." "Manche Leute fürchten sich vor Gewittern." "Manche Leute fürchten sich vor Gewittern." And then we had "der Donner," like "the thunder," "der Donner." der Donner And "lightning." "der Blitz" "der Blitz" So when lightning strikes, you hear thunder. "Wenn der Blitz einschlägt.." So "strike" is "einschlagen" literally "hit in," "You hear thunder." "Hört man Donner." "Wenn der Blitz einschlägt, hört man Donner." Then you have " Hot "Heiß" "Heiß," "cold" "kalt" "kalt." So you could say something like, "it's hot today." "Es ist heiß heute Or "Winter is cold in Vienna." "Der Winter ist kalt in Wien." "Last winter for sure was very cold in Vienna. "Der letzte Winter war sehr kalt in Wien." That's "The last winter was very cold in Vienna." "Warm" is "warm." You write it the same way. "warm" "The sun was warm today." "Die Sonne war warm heute." "wet." ist (is) "nass" "nass." You could say "The floor is wet." "Der Boden ist nass." "Der Boden ist nass." And "dry" is "trocken "trocken" You could say, "The air is very dry. "Die Luft ist sehr trocken." "Die Luft ist sehr trocken." All right, so as always, I invite you to definitely go back and listen to it again and repeat the words again, and then make a lot of your own sentences with those words. Actually, if you haven't heard it yet, then I suggest you to tune into the last week's episode. That was episode 64 and it was about what is real practice for words, when you're learning German and I, think it can help you a lot, I hope it does. Let me know. Okay, talk to you soon!