Introduction

It’s time for another episode of Coffee Break German. In this week’s show, you’ll learn how to introduce members of your family to your new-found German-speaking friends. Coffee Break Geramn In weekly episodes you’ll join native speaker Thomas who’ll be teaching learner Mark in gradual, structured lessons. This episode features a special input from our “Grammar Guru” Kirsten who will explain how gender works in the German language.

Coming up in this lesson…

In this lesson you’ll be learning how to introduce members of your family. You’ll learn:

• the words for different members of your family;
• how to introduce members of your family in German;
• how the gender of nouns works in German;
• the word for “the”, depending on the gender of nouns;
• how to say “my” for masculine and feminine nouns;
• how to say “he/she is called…”

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