Better German Podcast Episode 6 Wordlist Body Parts
2023-09-28 18 min
Description & Show Notes
Find the full show notes at bettergerman.info/6
PDF with the list and translations to download (just register once)
In this episode of the Better German podcast you will learn a list of words - body parts - in German! This is a great list for total beginners, it is also good as a review or if you want to learn the correct articles for the words. You will learn the meaning and the pronunciation of these words by repeating. I encourage you to get the PDF with the written out words and translation from my homepage.
PDF with the list and translations to download (just register once)
In this episode of the Better German podcast you will learn a list of words - body parts - in German! This is a great list for total beginners, it is also good as a review or if you want to learn the correct articles for the words. You will learn the meaning and the pronunciation of these words by repeating. I encourage you to get the PDF with the written out words and translation from my homepage.
Find the full show notes at: bettergerman.info/6
Find the PDF with a list of the words including their articles and the translation here. You can get access to all resources that are available for the podcast. I use my course platform, so it is called a "course".
Find the PDF with a list of the words including their articles and the translation here. You can get access to all resources that are available for the podcast. I use my course platform, so it is called a "course".
Here you can get early access to the upcoming A1.1 (total beginner) German course.
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Transcript
Welcome to the Better German podcast.
My name is Susi Blümel, and I will teach
you German and everything around the
language , the countries and the culture.
Hello, welcome to the
Better German podcast.
My name is Susi.
I'm your host.
I'm a German teacher.
And my mission and my vision is to help
all learners of German — you — to learn
German without any super complicated
rules and without the things that have
made German learning difficult sometimes.
Okay, so here we go, the first word
list we're going to do together.
This is a very basic word
list about body parts.
Maybe I'm going to include a few
explanations on what we're doing.
So this is a word list of nouns
words that refer to objects or
things, or even feelings, conditions.
In German, when we learn a word list,
we're always including articles.
Don't worry, we're going to repeat
them - just so you understand why they're
there: for every noun we need to learn
with it if it's "der", "die", or "das".
If you haven't heard, or if you don't
know what I'm talking about and what's
with the "der", "die" and "das" and
you don't know what an article is:
I've recorded an episode, It's called
"Introduction to articles" and you can
find it on the podcast and it's going
to be in the course as well, of course.
So, it's a good idea that you
listen to that first, so you
know what we're talking about.
Basically very simple, we're
going to do repeating things.
I'm going to say you're going to repeat
it, and I'm going to tell you what to do.
So ideally, if you cannot speak right
now, like if you're, in the tram and
you're listening to this episode and
maybe you can't say anything, okay,
fine, you can listen to it, however,
ideally you say these out loud.
As much as you can, don't
be afraid and just do it.
You can even do it
together with a partner.
If you have a friend who also
wants to learn German, grab him.
(or her), get a hold of him (or
her) do the whole thing together.
We're going to do some exercises,
which are actually, I think, more
fun if you do them together - later
on - to practice these words.
Okay, good.
So let's get started.
I'm going to say the German word
and I want you to repeat it and then
for this step, I'm going to say the
translation and you're going to repeat it.
You can download this list.
So if you want to have the written
up list for practicing go on my
homepage on bettergerman.info
slash, and then the episode number.
This is episode number six,
so you do bettergerman.info/6.
There you will find the entire show
notes, you will find a transcript to
download and you will find the link,
where you can get the body parts list.
So this will take you
to my course platform.
You will have to register once,
it's completely free, and then you
will have access to all of the,
additional materials that you can
get for free with the podcast.
Okay, cool, so let's get started,
I'll say it and I'll say the English
translation and you repeat both.
So I'll always leave a little bit
of a space in between, hopefully
enough for you to repeat it.
der Körper
Body.
der Teil
Part.
der Körperteil
Body part.
der Kopf
It's the head.
das Gesicht - the face.
die Stirn
forehead.
das Auge.
eye.
die Nase
The nose.
der Mund.
It's the mouth.
die Zunge
It's the tongue.
das Kinn
Chin.
der Arm
arm.
die Hand
Hand.
der Finger
it's the finger.
der Daumen
That's the thumb or the biggest finger.
der Bauch
It's your belly.
der Nabel.
It's the belly button.
Like the little, whole or whole-ish kind
of thing in the middle of your belly.
das Bein
the leg.
der Fuß
Foot.
die Zehe
It's the toe.
By the way I have to apologize
to all native English speakers.
I'm sometimes keeping things intentionally
simple, because not all of my students.
have English as their native language,
and I want to be as understandable
for everybody as possible.
So "a toe" maybe, depending
on your language these are
the fingers of your feet.
So,
"die Zehe", it's a finger
of your foot or a toe.
das Knie
the knee.
die Schulter
the shoulder.
die Augenbraue
Eyebrow.
das Ohr
the ear.
das Haar
It's the hair.
can be used to mean all
of the hair together.
das Haar
Can also be one single hair.
der Hals
It's the neck.
der Rücken
The back - this.
part of your body behind on the backside.
der Bart
It's the beard, the facial hair of men.
A beard.
Good.
If you're still a little bit
confused, Go back and do this one
more time, particularly if you only
hear this, if you hear it on the
podcast, go to the beginning of the
list, and just listen to it again.
Other than that, for the next step.
I'm gonna say it in German
and you'll repeat it.
So, ready.
We're going to do this
twice for every word.
der Körper,
der Körper
der Teil
der Teil
der Körperteil
der Körperteil
der Kopf
der Kopf
das Gesicht
das Gesicht
die Stirn
die Stirn
das Auge
das Auge
die Nase
die Nase
der Mund
der Mund
die Zunge
die Zunge
das Kinn
das Kinn
der Arm
der Arm
By the way if you are wondering - this
letter - I get asked a lot by my students.
This letter, "r" in German.
There's an episode and a lesson coming
up very soon about the alphabet and there
is going to be an entire pronunciation
course where we go into this in detail.
However, this "r" is not
always pronounced as "r".
So you can say in this particular
word, you could say "Arm".
But honestly, at least people in Austria
and probably most of Germany even,
they will not usually say "Arm" (with a
rolled "r"), they will just say "Arm".
So it becomes almost silent.
Similar, like if you have an "- er"
at the end of a word, it is very
correctly pronounced as "ah", "der FingA"
and there was another example that we
just had, just wanted to mention that.
- " Stirn" - same thing.
"die StiRn" - you can say that, but
frankly, people in the theater, on
the stage will maybe do that, but
most people in day-to-day language,
they will not see "die StiRn",
they will just see "die Stirn".
So in case you're wondering, don't be
surprised, when I do these exercises
with you, I just try to speak kind of
what a "normal" German is, so you get
used to normal German, so you will soon
be able to go out and talk to people.
Okay.
Let's carry on.
der Arm
der Arm.
die Hand
die Hand
der Finger.
der Finger.
der Daumen
der Daumen
der Bauch
der Bauch
der Nabel
der Nabel
das Bein
das Bein
der Fuß
der Fuß
die Zehe
die Zehe
das Knie
das Knie
die Schulter
die Schulter
die Augenbraue
die Augenbraue
das Ohr
das Ohr
das Haar
das Haar
der Hals
der Hals
der Rücken
der Rücken
der Bart
der Bart
OK, good.
So before we go to the next step, what I
would like you to know and understand is
a little bit how to use these exercises.
So whenever you do that, you do it as good
as you can, you don't have to worry about
it, however, if you've done it and then
you still are not sure if you're saying
it correctly, or you still think it's
quite difficult to say them (the words),
then you just do it again and you do it
again until you're sure or you feel really
good about this part of the exercise.
Same thing with the first
part of the exercise.
If you are still confused.
"Wait, what, what, what is this one?
What does it mean?", then you go back
and you do the whole thing again.
There's no stress about it, and you can
just do it as many times as you need.
Don't worry about it, please.
Relax, it takes as long as it takes,
it will be faster if you do it
that way, that I can guarantee you.
Good, the next step is, I'm gonna
say the German word, and you're
going to say the English word.
So if you're just listening to this,
I really highly recommend, I hope you
got yourself the word list because
this is going to be much easier.
So I'm gonna say it, and then you're
gonna say the English translation.
der Körper
der Teil
der Körperteil
der Kopf
das Gesicht
die Stirn
das Auge
die Nase
der Mund
die Zunge
das Kinn
der Arm
die Hand
der Finger.
der Daumen
der Bauch
der Nabel
das Bein
der Fuß
die Zehe
das Knie
die Schulter
die Augenbraue
das Ohr
das Haar
der Hals
der Rücken
der Bart
All right.
So the next step for this word list
will be to practice it and there
is going to be a sentence pattern.
The next episode on the podcast
is a sentence pattern to
practice these exact words.
See you there.
Before I go, I'll tell you, you can
repeat this, repeat it over and over
until you have no worries and you feel
very good about that you know what
these mean and also how to say them.
You will need more practice to
actually use them and this is what
we are going to learn the next time.
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