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Michel Thomas Method: German Vocabulary Course
Marion O'Dowd
£30.00 (inc VAT)
ISBN:
9780340939840
Series:
Michel Thomas Series
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Summary:
Learn another language the way you learnt your own! As a child, you learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn German vocabulary in the same way.
• Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas
• This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your German in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.
• You learn through listening and speaking – the way you learnt as a child.
• You then pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.
This NEW Vocabulary Course builds on the Foundation and Advanced Courses to increase the number and range of words you will be able to use. Rose Lee Hayden, Michel Thomas’s most trusted teacher, shares her first-hand insights with the author, Marion O'Dowd, an experienced German teacher, to give you over 1,000 words in a unique and memorable way. Marion is joined by two native speakers to make sure your pronunciation is perfect, while a booklet shows you the written language.
You'll stick with it because you'll love it!
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Table of Contents:
 Introduction: How this course came about, what it does and does not include, how it works, and how it is both faithful to and expands upon the Michel Thomas Language Courses
Course segment 1: Cognates
(CD 1, track 1)
Introduction
(CD 1, track 2)
Anglo-Saxon influence t > d, t > th
Cognate examples: Bett-Brot-Butter-tanzen-Durst-danken; animals; hundred thousand; parts of the body
(CD 1, track 3)
-ieren verbs: reservieren; servieren etc.
Anglo-Saxon influence p > b
das the – ein a
Word order: möchte sends the full verb to the end of the sentence
Hotel vocabulary: drinnen inside; draussen outside; Frühstück breakfast; Mittagessen lunch; Abendessen dinner
(CD 1, track 4)
Kaffee und Kuchen tea-time
vorbei^kommen to come by
(CD 1, track 4)
More -ieren verbs: transportieren; reduzieren etc.
Adjectives - standing alone: ausgezeichnet excellent; dunkel dark; hell light
Agreement of adjectives: es for neuter singular: ausgezeichnetes Bier; e for plural: gute Autos
Vocabulary: Produkte, Waren
(CD1, track 5)
Winter/summer sports vocabulary: trainieren
Word order: promoting an item to the head of the sentence for emphasis
Es macht Spaß! It’s fun!
(CD 1, track 5)
Kinds of sport: Sportarten
Masculine and feminine endings for professions: Sportler, Sportlerin
(CD 1, track 6)
More -ieren verbs: respektieren respect; sich konzentrieren concentrate
Word-joining: Sprachregeln language rules
Polite Sie command form: Respektieren Sie!
um … zu (+ infinitive) in order to …
Possessive adjectival agreement: meine (fem.) - meine Reise
Past Tense of -ieren verbs: –iert ending: organisiert
Contractions: daran-damit-darauf: reagieren darauf react to it
dass that triggers a ‘weil situation’
(CD 1, track 7)
Nouns made from verbs: das Leben life; das Essen eating/food
Whilst … -ing: Beim Studieren whilst studying
Zum Geburtstag gratulieren wishing someone happy birthday
Ihnen (polite to you) and dir (informal to you)
(CD 1, track 8)
Irregular non-cognate -ieren verbs: verlieren lose; spazieren gehen go for a walk; passieren happen
Wie schrecklich! How terrible! Wie ärgerlich! How annoying! Wie dumm! How stupid!
(CD 1, track 9)
Nouns with -tät endings (pl. -täten) correspond to –ity: Elektrizität electricity
im in the = masculine/neuter for ‘static situation’: im Zimmer
General house vocabulary
unter^nehmen to undertake
Was für? What sort of?
(CD 1, track 10)
Time-Manner-Place rule (TEMP) Wann? When; Wie? How?; Wo?; Where?; Wohin? Where to?
Was gibt’s zu tun hier? What is there to do here?
(CD 1, track 11)
Ich schlage vor, dass … I suggest that ...
lieber rather, preferably
ins into the – movement into a place: ins Theater
(CD 1, track 12)
More -tät words: Universität; Spezialität; etc.
Pronouncing z and st sounds
es gibt + zu + verb there is/there are … to do
Word order: Inversion after dort: Dort gibt es …
einmalig unique; ein Mal once
Mensch/Menschen man/humanity; Leute people
besitzen to own/possess
(CD 1, track 13)
‘Belonging situation’: die (singular and plural) changes to der of the
The common -artig ending meaning like: großartig superb
(CD 1, track 13)
More -tät words and adjectives within those words: kreativ; aktiv; etc.
(CD 2, track 1)
Erfolgreich successful; heutzutage nowadays
Word order: denn for/because does not affect word order
(CD 2, track 2)
-keit/heit words correspond to ity/ness/hood: Möglichkeit possibility; Gelegenheit opportunity
Sehenswürdigkeiten sights (sights worth seeing): Brandenburger Tor/Berliner Mauer
(CD 2, track 3)
-keit words based on adjectives: heiter > Heiterkeit etc.
-fähig = -able. -bar ending = -ful: dankbar > grateful
Words based on drücken: (sich) aus^drücken express (oneself); der Ausdruck expression; der Eindruck impression; beeindrucken impress
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