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Название: Unlocking German with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach

Автор: Paul Noble

Издательство: HarperCollins

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      These red bits are the answers to the various riddles, challenges and questions that I will pose as I lead you into the German language. If you read these answers without at least trying to work out the solutions to the various riddles and challenges first, then the book simply won’t work for you.

      So make sure to use something to cover up the bits of red text in the book while you have a go at trying to work out the answers. It doesn’t matter if you sometimes get them wrong because it is by trying to think out the answers that you will learn how to use the language.

      Trust me on this, you will see that it works from the very next page of this book.

      Take a look at the page on the right to see how to use your bookmark or piece of paper to cover up correctly.

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       Can you come over tonight?

      “Can you come over tonight?”

       Not such a complicated sentence in English really, is it? Or is it…?

      I have taught many people over the years, ranging from those who know no German at all through to those who may have studied German for several years at school, and yet whether they have studied the language before or not, many of them still struggle to construct a basic sentence like this when I first meet them.

      Admittedly, they might know how to say other far less useful things, like “I’m 37 years old and have two sisters and a goldfish” – an unusual conversation opener from my perspective – but they nevertheless can’t ask someone to come over later.

      Well, in just a few minutes’ time, you will be able to do this – even if you’ve never learnt any German before.

      Just remember though: don’t skip anything, don’t waste your time trying to memorise anything but do use your bookmark to cover up anything red you find on each page.

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      Okay now, let’s begin!

      “I can” in German is:

      Ich kann

      (pronounced “ikh kan”1)

      And the word for “begin” in German is:

       beginnen

       (pronounced “baig-in-urn”)

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      So how would you say “I can begin”?

Ich kann beginnen (ikh kan baig-in-urn) image Did you remember to cover up the red words while you worked out the answer?

      “Not” in German is:

      nicht

      (nikht)

      Now again, what is “I can”?

      ich kann

      (ikh kan)

      So how would you say “I can not”?

      ich kann nicht

      (ikh kan nikht)

      And so how would you say “I cannot begin”?

      Ich kann nicht beginnen.

      (ikh kan nikht baig-in-urn)

      The word for “bring” in German is:

      bringen

      (bring-urn)

      You will notice very quickly that the word for “bring” in German – “bringen” – is very similar to “bring” in English. In fact, by simply adding an “en” to the end of the English word “bring” we have effectively created the same word in German. And we can actually do the exact same thing with a great number of other English words.

      For example, let’s take the English word “camp”/ “to camp”. Now, to say “camp” in German, again we can simply add an “en” to the end of the English word “camp”. Let’s try that now: take the English word “camp” and add “en” onto the end of it. What does that give you?

      campen

      (camp-urn)

      And this means “camp” in German.

      Let’s try another example, doing exactly the same thing, but this time let’s use the English word “park” / “to park”. Again, we’ll simply add “en” onto the end of the word “park” and we’ll end up with the word that means “park” in German. So, do that now – add “en” onto the end of the English word “park” and tell me, what is the word that means “park” in German?

      parken

      (park-urn)

      And once again, what is “begin” in German?

      beginnen

      (baig-in-urn)

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      And what is “bring”?

      bringen

      (bring-urn)

      And what is “park”?

      parken

      (park-urn)

      Finally, what is “camp”?

      campen

      (camp-urn)

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      What was “I can” in German?

      ich kann

      (ikh kan)

      So how would you say “I can camp”?

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