Last week I rode my MTB across the Alps: Transalp. With 10 other "Biker" on a trip organized by http://www.dav-summit-club.de/. We started at the Bodensee in the north of Switzerland and rode across the San Bernardino pass to Locarno. 6 days of "biken" with a typical "Höhenprofil" looking like this: Each night we slept in a different hotel in a different town (Appenzell, Chur, San Bernardino, etc.). The picture shows us standing above the Rhein, looking down at Lichtenstein and Vaduz. For me this was the first time that I did such an activity with Germans, so I will tell you a little about cultural differences that became obvious... The bad news is that I dropped my new Canon 400D into a canyon, destroying it and my most expensive lens .-( Good that I still have my Sony R1, a great camera with which I took many of my best fotos. Still, the Canon will have to be replaced when I find my new job and get my first salary... Lucerne, 26.08.2007 Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com

Learn to Speak German - Lesson 045 - Transalp

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Hi everybody, as you might know there is an Android app containing the new lessons, a vocabulary trainer, different interactive quizs, etc. Over the last weeks I got quite a few mails asking me for an iPhone version. As you can see however I am one of the last (one might think) PC users out there and iPhone apps can only be developed on a Mac. And you all know what those silver beautys cost. So, here is the deal: If enough of you want an iPhone version, buy me a mac. Seriously, there is a donate button on the blog. Donate what ever you want and if we collect enough money for a nice Mac (remember Paypal takes its toll) I will take two weeks of holiday, learn how to program on an iPhone and develop an iPhone application. It will contain all the lessons available at that moment for free (no promise for future lessons) and of course my vocabulary trainer and the verb trainer from the Android app. Deal? If we do not get enough money, say by mid Februar I will donate half the money connected to a charity trust (and publish the receipt here of course). Fair enough? Lucerne, 20.01.2011 Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com

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Lesson 11 - Die ZukunftThe year is ending so this is a great time to learn about the future tense - about "die Zukunft". In German to say that you will do something you just need to use the correct form of the verb "werden" and ad the verb you want to use in its basic form. So, to say that you will read a book you just say "ich werde ein Buch lesen". ich werde du wirst sie wird wir werden ihr werdet sie werden Try to saywe will read a bookwe will take the busyou (sing) will go shoppingthey will be latehe will learn German  wir werden ein Buch lesenwir werden den Bus nehmendu wirst einkaufen gehensie werden spät seiner wird Deutsch lernen Luzern, 27.12.2011 Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com

Lesson 11 - Die Zukunft

German Lesson 04 - Geld und Zahlen  moneydas GeldEURder EuroCHder Frankenhow much is the book?Wieviel kostet das Buch?Some number exercises Luzern, 17.12.2011 Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com

004 - German-Podcast.de: Geld und Zahlen

In todays German lesson we will learn how to order einen Kaffee oder einen Tee. By the way, the audio file from lesson 002 was missing. I updated the link. If you don't find it in your Podcast program, come over to the blog at: http://german-podcast.blogspot.com/ Sorry for the inconvenience :-( milkdie Milchcoffeeder Kaffeeteader Teeto drinktrinkenpleasebittein two hoursin zwei Stunden Luzern, 11.12.2011 Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com

003 - German-Podcast.de: Kaffee bestellen

I just released a beta version of the learn German Android App. Take a look at it, give me feedback and I will try to get it final in the christmas holidays at the latest. You can find a list of my Android Apps here: https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Stephan+Wiesner Introduction The GermanPodcast.de app provides a German teaching course. It is based on the popular GermanPodcast I maintained for some years (and have discontinued for the moment). The lessons contain an audio file, some vocabulary and a review session. They build on each other, so you might want to start in the beginning. The new vocabulary can be imported into VociTeach, the vocabulary learn program included in the app. The app is currently in BETA status, check for updates in November/Dezember 2011 The Lessons You can obtain a list of all available lessons from the lessons menu. Just press "more lessons" and the app connects to my server and looks for new lessons. These are not downloaded automatically! Just open any lesson you want to learn and the app starts to download the lessons to your SD card. If you go through the review of the lesson, you can add the contained vocabulary to your personal stack. The data for the lessons is stored on your SD card. You can use the mp3 files with any mp3 player - and delete them if you need the space. If you just delete the mp3 file, the vocabulary is still displayed in the lesson screen. If you want to download the complete lesson again you need to delete the folder of the lesson (e.g. "lesson03") and reopen that lesson. The Quiz The quiz asks you for random vocis from your personal stack. You get 1 point for every correct answer and -2 for every wrong one. Your personal highscore is recorded for each session, so make an effort... VociTeach VociTeach is the vocabulary learning program included in the app. It is based on the Leitner System. In this method words are sorted into levels according to how well you know each one. This is how it works: you try to recall the answer to the question asked. If you succeed, you send the card to the next level. But if you fail, you send it back to the first level. Each succeeding level has a longer period of time before you are required to revisit the word. You can solve the question (but this results in the word moving back to level 1!) or get a hint (first letters of the answer). If you press "Next" you will be asked if you knew the correct answer. Be honest, the sytem only works if you are honest with yourself... The beauty of the Leitner system is that you can achieva maximum recall with minimum effort! After all the hard part of learning vocis is not the learning, its the remembering over a long period of time... Errors, Feedback, FeaturesIf you find errors in the app itself or the vocabulary, please drop me an email and I will try to fix it. Please don't write it into recessions in the Android market. I can not answer those, I might not even read them and they are sure to be outdated after I fix it. So, be fair, let me know personally, ok? The same goes for feedback or feature wishes. I will include a FAQ section in this help file in the future - but you need to contact me to fill that first :-) Planned Features Add/Edit vocisCustomize the intervals of levelsRandom function in VociTeachStore name for highscoreLayout of list of all vocis could be . . . optimizedAnd, of course, add mor lessons .-) Luzern, 18.11.2011 Stephan WiesnerUse this free podcast to learn to speak German. http://german-podcast.blogspot.com

Learn to Speak German - Lesson 045 - Transalp

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