100 free German phrases from shows

What's inside

• Greetings and reactions33 lines like Hallo, Na?, Tschüss, Mach's gut, Echt?, Krass!, Quatsch! and Alles klar, with a key to the tags and the regional ones marked: Moin in the north, Servus and Grüß Gott in the south and Austria, Grüezi in Switzerland.
• Love and fightsIch liebe dich and Ich hab dich lieb and how they differ, why Du fehlst mir works backwards, Lass mich nicht allein, then the argument lines: Was soll das?, Spinnst du?, and Halt die Klappe! and Hau ab!, marked rude.
• Everyday and slang18 things people say at home and with friends, like Keine Ahnung, Mal sehen, Feierabend and Doch!, the yes that says no to a no, then a youth slang box: Digga, Alter, cringe, lost, Ehrenmann and sus.
• What people call each otherdu and Sie and the switch between them, Herr and Frau with a surname, Schatz and Liebling, then Kumpel, Alter and Leute, with who uses which.
• PracticeTen lines to cover and recall, plus a note on how spoken German shortens words, like ich hab and nich, so the subtitle may look tidier than the audio.

How to use it

1. Learn the basic German words first. The cases guide helps you see why each line looks the way it does.
2. Read a page out loud, a few lines at a time, and notice the tags.
3. Cover the right side of the practice page and say each line from the English.
4. Watch a German series or film with Kitsumi and listen for the same lines.

More free German printables

• Basic German wordsStart here. How every letter sounds, then 215 first words with der, die and das in colour.
• German der, die, das and cases guideMake der, die and das work in sentences: why der turns into den, dem and des.
• German verbs guideMake verbs say who and when: the endings, verb second, modals, separable verbs and the Perfekt.

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