Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Welcome to Lesson #19 of Stress Free German. We start today with a neuter image which has four new elements. So imagine a loaf of bread on a cutting board. The board is on a shelf, and behind it are some books and a large, shiny carving knife. So the shelf is our neuter anchor. And again, our four new concrete nouns are… bread, knife, board, book Brot, Messer, Brett, Buch The first and last are fairly easy. Brot is bread and Buch is book. Let’s try a ph ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Welcome to Lesson #17 of Stress Free German. Today’s image has three new elements. So, we are inside a bakery. Shelves lined with loaves of bread and rolls. There’s a big cake on the counter. And an elderly woman wearing glasses at the cash register. Both the woman and the glasses remind us that the following are feminine nouns: The bakery, the cake, and the cash register. Bäckerei, Torte, Kasse Bäckerei, is obviously the bakery. The thing to note is th ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Hold on, guys…I’m not quite ready. I’m cleaning this bathroom window. And now I need to wash my hands. As you can hear, right now I’m in the Badezimmer, standing over the Waschbecken. Alright, now I just need a Handtuch to dry my hands. Hmm…this Bild on the wall is a little crooked. (scrape) There we go. Okay, now I’m ready… (INTRO) Welcome to Lesson #16 of Stress Free German. Let me describe again today’s image. These are all neuter, which is why I men ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Welcome to Lesson #15 of Stress Free German. Let’s start with a quick review of the locational forms we worked with in the previous lesson. So, first say… We have a balcony. Wir haben einen Balkon. We’re on the balcony. Wir sind auf dem Balkon. This is a big shelf. Das ist ein großes Regal. The present is on the shelf. Das Geschenk ist auf dem Regal. Ask your boss: Do you have the newspaper? Haben Sie die Zeitung? You glasses, sir, are on the newspaper ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Welcome to Lesson #14 of Stress Free German. Let’s go right to our new image. Feminine, this time. Imagine a crowd of people standing around outside a pub. It’s nighttime, and a big lamp illuminates the pub. We can just see the street in the foreground. That’s a reminder that these are feminine nouns. And finally, on the left side, a hand is holding out a bottle of lemonade, as if to show us, This is what I’m drinking at the pub tonight. Here, then, are ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Welcome to Lesson #13 of Stress Free German. Our goal today is to get comfortable with the many verbs we’ve learned thus far in the course. That means a minimal amount of new vocabulary, and a whole lot of prompting. Let’s jump right to it. Tell your friend: I’m giving you a big present. Ich gebe dir ein großes Geschenk. But hold on. You’ve got to visualize these phrases first. With each prompt, try to see the scenario in your head…as if watching it pla ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Welcome to Lesson #12 of Stress Free German. Let’s jump to today’s new image. This one contains only masculine elements. So imagine someone’s balcony which overlooks a sandy beach. And on their balcony is a table. And on that table is a shiny, silver key. So the table is our masculine anchor. And here again are those three new nouns: key, balcony, beach. Schlüssel…Balkon…Strand Try as I might, I just can’t spot a connection between the English word key ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Welcome to Lesson #11 of Stress Free German. We’re going to start with a quick Der-Die-Das quiz. The prompts are going to be locations that we’ve learned, so as I say each location, try to see the picture in your mind, and all the elements in it. This means keeping a finger on the pause button, okay? So say.. the park Der Park the train station Der Bahnhof the museum Das Museum the cafe Das Cafe the house Das Haus the restaurant Das Restaurant the churc ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Welcome to Lesson #10 of Stress Free German. Let’s start with a new image. It has four elements, all neuter. So try to envision a shiny new automobile parked in front of a restaurant. Because the restaurant has outdoor seating, you can also think of it as a cafe. On the right side of the image, there’s a bicycle. That’s it. Those are our four neuter nouns: car, bicycle, restaurant, cafe. Listen… Auto, Fahrrad, Restaurant, Café One more time, repeat afte ..read more

Full Episode Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) Listening Comp. Audio (download link is to the right of the volume icon) SFG LESSON #9 Welcome to Lesson #9 of Stress Free German. In those first eight lessons, we accomplished a couple of very important things. With our system of visualisation we learned approximately fifty concrete nouns plus their gender. That’s huge. We also took note of the patterns of how, when we do something to the noun, the surrounding words are affected. That’s also huge. And we’re going to leverage all that as we turn our attention to greetings ..read more