B1 · 21 words
Otti and the German idioms
Frau Hilde tells Otti that he has tomatoes on his eyes, and Otti looks in the mirror. Learn to talk about learning a language - accents, dialects, expressions - and to ask what someone means.
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Frau Hilde
Das ist ganz normal, wenn man eine Fremdsprache lernt. Als ich jung war, verstand ich den Dialekt meiner Schwiegermutter aus Bayern kaum.
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Translation
That's quite normal when you're learning a foreign language. When I was young, I could hardly understand my mother-in-law's Bavarian dialect.
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Otti
Ich bräuchte einen Sprachpartner, dessen Muttersprache Deutsch ist.
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Translation
I'd need a language partner whose mother tongue is German.
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Words and Phrases
- die Redewendung idiom
- der Ausdruck expression
- der Akzent accent
- der Dialekt dialect
- die Muttersprache mother tongue
- die Fremdsprache foreign language
- der Wortschatz vocabulary
- der Sprachpartner language partner
- die Sprachpartnerin language partner
- verwechseln to mix up
- missverstehen to misunderstand
- nachfragen to ask
- sich unterhalten to talk
- wörtlich literal
- fließend fluent
- deutlich clear
- peinlich embarrassing
- sich Mühe geben to make an effort
- Tomaten auf den Augen haben to not see what's right in front of you
- die Sprache language
- die Bedeutung meaning
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