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The following cards are extracts from the practice exercises included in our main program. Please use them while you are listening to the Free Evaluation Sound Link together with the Free Evaluation instructions you printed out.

After listening to the Evaluation file a few times you will be able to complete cards Two and Three by adding:
1. the English equivalents to Card Two and ...
2. the German equivalents to Card Three.

Card One

 GB1 A FEW WORDS IN GERMAN OF BUSINESS THANKS ABROAD - TO HELP YOU THANK FOR HOSPITALITY RECEIVED

Pronunciation guide: 1. “CH” in German is pronounced as the “CH” in the Scottish word “LOCH” - but if you find that difficult you can say a “K” - which is how the Bavarians in Southern Germany pronounce it.

1 GOOD MORNING - Guten Morgen - [GOOTen MOR-gen]

2 GOOD AFTERNOON - Guten Tag - [GOOTen targ]

3 GOOD EVENING - Guten Abend -
[GOOTen AH-bent]

4 PLEASED TO MEET YOU - Es freut mich sehr - [Es FROYT mich ZAHR]

5 HOW ARE YOU? - Wie geht es Ihnen? - [VEE gate es EE-nen?]

6 MY NAME IS ... - Mein Name ist ... - [Mine NAR-mer ist ...]

7 I’M PLEASED TO BE HERE - Es freut mich sehr bei Ihnen zu sein - [Es FROYT mich zayr by EE-nen tsu zyne]

8 I DON’T UNDERSTAND - Ich verstehe nicht - [Ich fair-SHTAYer nicht]

9 SORRY! - Entschuldigung! - [Ent-SHOOL-dee-goonk!]

10 I SPEAK A LITTLE GERMAN - Ich spreche etwas deutsch - [Ich SHPRECHer ET-vas doych]

11 I’M GOING TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE - Ich will die Sprache lernen - [Ich vill dee SHPRARCHer lairnen]

12 I AGREE - Ich bin einverstanden - [Ich bin EYE’n-fair-shtanden]


 Card Two

1 Guten Morgen - [GOOTen MOR-gen]

2 Guten Tag - [GOOTen targ]

3 Guten Abend -
[GOOTen AH-bent]

4 Es freut mich sehr - [Es FROYT mich ZAHR]

5 Wie geht es Ihnen? - [VEE gate es EE-nen?]

6 Mein Name ist ... - [Mine NAR-mer ist ...]

7 Es freut mich sehr bei Ihnen zu sein - [Es FROYT mich zayr by EE-nen tsu zyne]

8 Ich verstehe nicht - [Ich fair-SHTAYer nicht]

9 Entschuldigung! - [Ent-SHOOL-dee-goonk!]

10 Ich spreche etwas deutsch - [Ich SHPRECHer ET-vas doych]

11 Ich will die Sprache lernen - [Ich vill dee SHPRARCHer lairnen]

12 Ich bin einverstanden - [Ich bin EYE’n-fair-shtanden]

 Card Three

1 GOOD MORNING -

2 GOOD AFTERNOON -

3 GOOD EVENING -

4 PLEASED TO MEET YOU -

5 HOW ARE YOU? -

6 MY NAME IS ... -

7 I’M PLEASED TO BE HERE -

8 I DON’T UNDERSTAND -

9 SORRY! -

10 I SPEAK A LITTLE GERMAN -

11 I’M GOING TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE -

12 I AGREE -


The Audio Evaluation file ends here, but our full programs carry on, giving you short and to-the-point language selections - all presented as above and chosen to make it really easy for you to say just what you want.

Also included in the program are numbers, days, months and the alphabet - sample snippets of which are given here ....

 ONE  eins  eye-ns    MONDAY Montag  MON-targ   A  ah
 TWO  zwei  ts-vye    TUESDAY  Dienstag  DEANS-targ   B  bay
 THREE  drei  dry    WEDNESDAY  Mittwoch  MIT-voch   C  tsay
 FOUR  vier  fear    THURSDAY  Donnerstag  DONNERS-targ   D  day
 FIVE  fünf  fewnf           E  ay
 SIX  sechs zex    JANUARY Januar  YAN-u-are   F  eff
 SEVEN  sieben  zeeben    FEBRUARY  Februar  FEBR-u-are   G  gay
 EIGHT  acht  acht    MARCH  März  MARE-ts   H  hah
 NINE  neun  noyn    APRIL  April  AH-preel   I  ee
 TEN  zehn  tsayn    MAY  Mai  my   J  yot


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