Classroom conversations: German alphabet
I can ask how to say or spell a word, and I can use the German alphabet to spell.
Classroom conversations: German alphabet
I can ask how to say or spell a word, and I can use the German alphabet to spell.
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Lesson details
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Key learning points
- 'Wie sagt man das?' means 'How do you say that?'.
- 'Wie schreibt man das?' means 'How do you write that?'.
- Knowing the German alphabet allows you to spell words out loud and write them down.
Keywords
Wie? - how?
Wissen - irregular verb meaning 'to know' something
Weiß - 1st person singular of 'wissen', meaning '(I) know'
Common misconception
'J' is pronounced the same in both English and German.
In German, 'j' is pronounced like 'yot' and sounds like the English 'y'. The German letter 'y' is called 'oopsilon'. It sounds like the German 'j' at the start of borrowed words, e.g., 'Yoga', but like a short ü 'oo' in others, e.g. 'das System'.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
pink
blue
yellow
red
bist
bin
ist
Exit quiz
6 Questions
How do you say?
How do you write?
to know, knowing
I don't know.
Is that clear?
That is not clear.
table
a table
no, not a table
number
a number
no, not a number
says, tells
to say, to tell
is
to be, being
are