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Welcome to this episode of the Better
German We're going to talk about

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German articles and I'm starting off
with the question if people, if German

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speaking people know, really know all
the genders for the nouns  and if they

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know all of the German gender rules.

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And I'm going to demystify, I'm going to
try to demystify this area a little bit.

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There is a lot of questions and
there is also a lot of weird answers.

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At least I think they're weird
in this area and I'm going to

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try to debunk them a little bit.

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Okay, so let's get
started with this thing.

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First of all, if you have no idea what
I'm talking about, if you're very new

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to German, I actually suggest you to
start at the beginning of the podcast

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and ideally start at the episode one.

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But there is also a very early episode.

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This is episode five
about the German articles.

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But to give you a one minute
introduction, I don't know if

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I'll make it in one minute.

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But word in German that is like table,
street, beauty, house, feeling and so on.

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In English we can say f
feeling or deaf feeling.

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These are nouns.

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And in German, each one of
those nouns falls actually into

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three different categories.

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Each one falls into one
of those three categories.

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And these we call genders.

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That's just the name of it.

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And it's a very grammatic
grammatical thing.

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But that's just how German is organized.

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German is not the only
language that does that.

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There are a lot of
languages that have genders.

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Like Italian has genders,
French has genders.

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All of the Slavic languages have
genders, but English doesn't have them.

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The way how these are seen
is mainly with the articles.

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For example, a house English, a
house or the house is in German,

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“das Haus.”

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“that is considered neutral.”

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So it is neither male or female.

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Maybe the male and female is a little hard
because obviously most of these things are

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objects or not even objects, just ideas.

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And they don't have an obvious gender.

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They don't have.

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They're not a man or a woman.

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But anyway, these are called genders.

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And the ones that we have
are male, female and neutral.

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I think it is probably easier if you're
not familiar with the concept to just

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consider it three different categories.

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And one is

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“der,”

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and that's the one that we
also use for male people.

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And

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“der" is also called male
"männlich" in German.”

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“Der Mann" is the man.

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“männlich" is like a man.

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Then we have the second
category that's with the article

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“die".

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"Die" is also what we use for
women and it's called female,

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which is weiblich in German.

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And then the third category is

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“Das" and that is neutral, that
is neither male or female.”

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So just so you have a few examples.

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“We have "der Tisch", that's the table,

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“der Tisch.”

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Or we have "die Blume", the flower,

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“die Blume,”

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we have die Frau, the woman,

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we have der Mann, the man”

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“and we have das Haus, the house

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and we have das

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Haus", the house and we have "das

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Buch" the book.” that's the
super fast introduction.

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And that can be sometimes a
little confusing and people ask

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a lot of questions about it.

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And I think just because of these many
questions people are trying to come up

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with answers to make it easier for them.

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Now here is the real thing.

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First of all, I'm going
to answer the question.

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Yes, German speaking people
do know these articles.

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They do not make mistakes
a lot of times with it.

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If they know the word, if they have
never heard the word before, they

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will also not know the article.

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There is no secret rule baked into
it that will tell us in most of

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the cases or in many cases what
the article That's the first thing.

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So there is no secrets that we're
hiding, but people know them.

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And the easiest thing that I
can say about this is consider

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the fact if that the thing is

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“dead or Das just to be part of the
word.” And the easiest way of learning

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it is just simply learning it with the

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“der, die or das.”

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Because for example, there's other
languages that don't even, they

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have the categories, but they
don't even have the articles.

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And I think that that's
even more difficult.

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So that's that Now.

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So basically that's the first
thing that you have to learn.

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There  is no magic trick.

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There is no set of rules that
you just learn and then you can

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figure it out from there on out.

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How we understand them and how we know
them basically is simply because we've

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heard them over and over and over and
we've said them over and over and over.

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And that's why it becomes
natural, so to say.

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It's is simply repetition.

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It's Hearing it again and again and again.

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And then you will know it.

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I'm going to look at it from the
other side to maybe make it a little

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easier, because I think most of what
happens here is that people think it's

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overwhelming, and then they ask and they
get like, yes, but isn't there a way.

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And then people, teachers or
other students are trying to

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come up with something not always

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does that actually make it easier?

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So I want to.

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I'm going to try to make it a little
easier by both taking, if you have

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that, idea away of you that this is very
hard or very difficult to understand,

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maybe taking a few of those questions
that you could actually have around

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this area and answer them as well.

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So, first of all, if you want to be
somehow fluent in German, you will

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have to learn about 3,000 words.

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This is true for most languages.

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You have to learn roughly 3,000
words to basically communicate.

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That doesn't mean you speak perfectly.

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That doesn't mean you can work
easily or something like that.

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That's just how you can somehow be fluent.

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You can get.

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Make yourself understandable
and you can understand.

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And then obviously keep
learning from that.

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So 3,000 words is not that
much, if you think of it.

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If you learn ten words every day in
a year and you leave out a few, you

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don't work on the weekends or something
on that, then within a year you will.

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You can have enough vocabulary to somehow
get somewhere So about 30 or 40 percent

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of these are nouns and have an article.

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So you'll have to learn, let's say,
roughly a thousand nouns to get started.

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And now there is one piece of good
news here that actually helps.

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A lot of nouns are actually
made up of two others.

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For example, you could have

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“das Haus, that's the house.”

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And then another word could be

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“das Wohnhaus.”

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“That's like a living house.”

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“That's basically an apartment house
or a house where people live in.”

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And it's always anything with

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“haus at the end is going to be das.”

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So

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“das Haus,”

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“das Wohnhaus,”

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“das Ferienhaus, that's a vacation home,”

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“das Ferienhaus,”

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“das Landhaus, that's a country house,”

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“das

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Toilettenhaus, the toilet house,”

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“like on a camping place,
camping site and so on.”

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So that is something if
you've learned this one

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“haus, this one word with the
article, every other word.”

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And we have a lot we do that
a lot in German that has

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“haus is the second part will be das.”

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And then there is things that are not
full words, but there are parts of words.

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For example, you have the
word for the newspaper, that's

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“Zeitung.”

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“And then if you have another
word with ‘ung’ at the end, “So

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it's Die Zeitung, the newspaper,”

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“Die Wohnung, the apartment”

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“und Die Meinung, the opinion.”

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So these are all

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“Die.”

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So there are some more like that.

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But again, these are not rules that
you have to learn, but these happen.

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So let's say the first
word of these you learn is

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“die Zeitung, the newspaper.”

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And you learn it and you use
it and you learn it as part

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of the vocabulary of the word.

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And.

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you repeat it and you
do this over and over.

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And then you know, ah,

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“it's Die Zeitung.”

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Good.

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And then you come across
this other word and it's

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“die Wohnung.”

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And you go like, ah,

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“it's Die. Oh, yeah, makes sense.”

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“It also ends on '-ung', has the
same ending as 'Die Zeitung.'”

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And then it starts dawning on you.

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“Oh, probably all of those that are '-ung'
at the end are going to be 'Die' anyway.”

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“It is going to be very easy already
for you to remember that, by the way, is

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the apartment so that it's Die Wohnung.”

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And then the next word that
you might come across could be

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“Die Meinung, the opinion.”

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And then you go already like,

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“oh, yeah, sure, it's Die. Makes sense.”

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Okay, so that's one of the
things that are going to help.

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So at the end of the day, you probably
have to learn the articles in the

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beginning for maybe 500 words.

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But again, you don't sit down
and try to memorize 500 articles.

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You learn them as part of the
words then that's the next thing.

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The next biggest mistake that
people probably make is they're

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trying to memorize them.

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Trying to memorize the articles.

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Actually, it's even not working.

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If you're trying to memorize the
words, don't try to memorize them.

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What you do is you get a word, you first
figure out how to pronounce that word.

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That's, by the way, something
that's a big mistake I've seen with

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German students or English students.

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They've never even said that word.

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When you learn with me,
that's the first step.

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When you learn with me, you will
either have an audio, like in the

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podcast, or you will have a video.

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Many of my courses are video courses
or hybrid courses, meaning you have

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a video, and then we get together
online or in person to practice.

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Or it's a complete life course.

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So the first step, always, actually, the
first step is you do write up the word.

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So I'm sorry I lied.

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But after that, the first step
is to pronounce the word, to

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figure out how to say the word.

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And this is super easy these days because
many dictionaries, or almost all the

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dictionaries that are for sure all online
dictionaries will have most usually

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they will even have a spoken thing.

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And you can just click on it and listen
to it, and you just say it, and then

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you listen to it again and you say
it, and you spend some time with doing

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that, because if you don't know how
to say the word, it's pretty useless.

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Because the first reason why you're
learning a language is you want

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to communicate to other people.

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And the main way of
communicating is speaking.

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Unless you really learn German
just to read German literature,

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I don't know, maybe that exists.

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I think it's a little rare.

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want to learn to speak.

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So the first thing is you speak.

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And when you learn how to say
it, every time you say it, you

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repeat the article with it.

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So you don't just say

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“Zeitung,”

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but you always say

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“Die Zeitung.”

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Maybe it's

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“Die Zeitung.”

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You listen to it again, and then
you're like, no, not quite right.

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Okay, I'll try it again.

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Okay, listen to it again.

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Oh, okay.

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And then you say it a couple
of more times until it's easy.

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But every time you say

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“Die”

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with it, and then you practice the word.

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And you could.

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For example, one of the easiest
ways of practicing any word

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is to make sentences with it.

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So you could say very simple
things, something like,

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“Die Zeitung ist

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groß.”

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“The newspaper is big.”

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“Ich

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habe keine Zeitung.”

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“I have no newspaper.” you are very,
very new and these are your first

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words, you can even mix the sentences.

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By the way, if you're very, very new
and these are your first words, if you

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sign up to the Better German podcast
community, there is an intro course

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that will get you through your first
words and get you started in learning

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German, you can sign up for that if
you go to bettergerman.info community.

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Anyway, so that's the second
thing, the memorizing.

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I've talked about it.

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So basically, what happens to go
back to the actual question is,

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do native speakers all know that?

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So, yes, they know that.

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They don't go, like, window, fence
or what was that gender again?

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They just know

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“it's Das Fenster.”

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And sometimes when we actually, for some
reason that we cannot come up with it,

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we will actually use it in a sentence.

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I'll go and say,

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“öffne das Fenster.”

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“He opens the window”

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“and Das Fenster.”

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And then I'll go like,

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“oh, yeah, okay, it does.”

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“Because I've heard it so many times
that I know it by saying it like that.”

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And every learner can do that too.

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You just have to keep repeating it and
you have to read things and you have

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to watch TV or watch TV shows with
subtitles if you're a beginner for sure.

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I suggest to use subtitles
in any case and read books.

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By the way, I'm super excited because
if you're following the podcast,

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you maybe know I'm working a lot
on my course and recording videos

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currently for the Get Talking course.

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So I'm ahead of my students
I've just added stories.

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So Get Talking course or other courses
with me, you have texts to read that have.

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They're very cool.

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They have all.

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Each one of them has audio files with
it and they're very good for the level.

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Like, you get the right
texts, you can choose.

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You have a choice.

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But you get texts that are good for your.

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For your level of learning.

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Good.

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So the goal is not back to our articles.

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The goal is not to memorize
them, but you're learning them

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together with the articles.

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And.

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Yeah.

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So the thing that you have to understand
is you don't have to learn 50 rules

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and you also don't have to
learn memorize a thousand nouns.

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You're using them one after
one, and then you will be okay.

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So to summarize this part,

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“no, there is no secret trick.”

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“yes, we know them.” “there
are some useful patterns.”

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“We German speakers know them because
we've just used them many, many times.”

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“And the trick is to learn nouns together
with their articles from the beginning.”

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And don't panic, you will make mistakes.

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That's totally okay.

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All right, so that's the end
of this episode, and actually

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there is a second part of it.

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And in the second part, I've, I'm
gonna have, now I'm gonna answer a

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lot of q and as, so I'm gonna answer.

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Typical questions, people,
students ask about, articles.

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And I'm gonna do some Myth busting here if
you have any questions whatsoever around

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articles, maybe yours is one of them.

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And if not, if there
is any question about.

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The area of any of the podcast
episodes that you feel wasn't answered.

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You can write to me, you can write to me
at podcast@bettergerman.info, and maybe

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your question will actually become one
of the next articles that are right on

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my blog or one of the next episodes.

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And I will in any case try
to answer your question.

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Okay?

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So I hope you were enjoying
this tune in the next time.

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If you are ready to learn German,
you can definitely check out

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my homepage and my courses.

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I'll link it in the show
notes and see you soon.

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Bye-bye.