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

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       I wouldn’t like to do it now because I’m very busy.

      I wouldn’t like to do it now because I’m very busy.

      The first chapter has shown you that you can learn how to create full sentences in German with relative ease, even though the word order can be different than in English. It also began to show you how you can change English words into German words, for instance by adding “en” onto the ends of words such as “bring” and “begin”.

      This is a great way to acquire new vocabulary which, in effect, costs you nothing.

      I’m now going to show you an additional way to change English words into German ones in our first letter swap…

      Time to swap some letters!

      Letter Swap Number 1

      Around half of the words in modern English have come into our language via Germanic languages. Using a few simple tricks, you can begin to use these words in German, which will provide you with a large, instant, usable vocabulary. And after all, why bother learning German vocabulary when you can simply invent it!

      The first trick we are going to use to start inventing words is to swap the letter “d” in English words for a “t” in German.

      So, for instance, if we swap the “d” in the English word “hard” for a “t” we will get the German word for “hard” – which is “hart”. If we try this again with the English word “under” we will get the equivalent word in German – “unter”. And if we want to say that we “drank” something in German, we can simply say that we “trank” it!

      So, swap “d” for “t” to find the German equivalent. Simple!

      Now, let’s see how we can use these new words to begin expanding our range of expression in German!

      In Chapter 1, we created words, like “park”, “camp”, “begin”, and so on, simply by taking English words and adding “en” onto the end of them – and there are, in fact, many more English words that we can also do this with.

      For some of them, you simply add an “en” onto the end, as we’ve already been doing. For others, however, we will also need to make some additional changes – for instance, we might need to use the letter swap above and start changing Ds into Ts!

      I’ll show you what I mean.

      We’ll do this the first time with “drink”.

      Now, we can see that there’s a letter “d” at the beginning of “drink”. So, let’s swap that for a “t”.

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