Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Learn to Speak German - Lesson 041 - Learn German with a story

I prepared a little story to help you build your vocabulary. You can download it here:
http://www.testmanager.info/Preview_Learn_German_with_a_Story.pdf
Please let me know what you think about that and if you think that kind of story helpful to you. You might want to take a look back at episode 2, which was similar.

Today is the first of August. That is the national holiday of Switzerland.
Am 1. August wird in der ganzen Schweiz der Entstehnung der Eidgenossenschaft gedacht. Die Eidgenossenschaft geht, wie es der Name schon vermuten lässt, auf einen Schwur zurück. Jedenfalls will es die Legende so. Im Jahre 1291 nach Christus trafen sich 3 Vertreter der 3 Waldstätten Uri, Schwyz und Unterwalden auf der Rütliwiese um ein Verteidigungsbündnis gegen die Österreicher und andere Feinde zu treffen. Um das Bündnis zu besiegeln, schworen sie den "Rütlischwur", den heute jedes Kind in der Schweiz kennt.
[http://www.tell.ch/schweiz/1august.htm]

The picture above is taken above the town Kandersteg, with a view on lake Oeschinensee.

http://german-podcast.blogspot.com/
Lucerne, 01.08.2007
by Stephan Wiesner
stephan@german-podcast.de

4 comments:

Carol said...

Thank you for what you do!! My mom is thrilled that i am learning German. Keep up the good work.

Stephan said...

Pleased to make your mom happy .-)
Freut mich, Deiner Mutter eine Freude zu machen .-)

adam said...

I am moving to Kreuzberg, Berlin in a few months to attend Freie University, and your podcast is one of the many tools I am using to learn German. The only suggestion I can make is to teach more slang words that young people might use. Otherwise, keep up the great work! Ausgezeichnet arbeiten!

Vielen dank,
-Adam (von Kalifornia, U.S.A.)

Dave said...

Thanks for this stroy! I hope you will continue it. It was GREAT!