Judith: Nein, ich komme etwa zwei Mal im Jahr hierhin.Ĭhuck: No I come more or less twice a year here. Judith: Ist das Ihr erstes Mal in Deutschland?Ĭhuck: Is this your first time in Germany? Ich wohne in New York.Ĭhuck: I’m from the USA, I live in New York. Das ist ein schönes Hotel, oder?Ĭhuck: Okay, that’s a nice hotel, isn’t it? Guten Abend! Ich möchte bitte zum Adlon Hotel.Ĭhuck: Good evening, I’d like to please go to the Adlon Hotel. T:Ğinmal im Jahr… Sehen Sie, da ist das Brandenburger Tor. T: Meine Frau und meine Kinder wohnen natürlich bei mir, aber meine Eltern und meine anderen Verwandten sind noch in Istanbul. P: Und Ihre Familie? Wohnt Ihre Familie auch in Deutschland? Ich komme aus der Türkei, aber ich wohne jetzt schon seit 15 Jahren in Deutschland.

P: Nein, ich komme etwa zwei Mal im Jahr hierhin. T: Ist das Ihr erstes Mal in Deutschland? P: Guten Abend! Ich möchte bitte zum Adlon Hotel. All right, let’s get to the dialogue now. Only then can you hope to understand these phrases also when a taxi driver has an accent or speaks dialect.Ĭhuck: Or speaks too really fast because in a hurry. So in today’s lesson, we are going to look at a typical taxi conversation, after listening to this podcast go to the website if you aren’t there already, go to the learning center and use the line by line dialogue tool to get really, really comfortable with everything that is said.

Judith: Yeah, people there are hard to understand. Judith: That’s the same in Germany from what I’ve seen, so it becomes doubly important to know the phrases that you’ll need for a taxi ride, because you may have to understand them even if the driver has a bad accent.Ĭhuck: You know this isn’t limited to immigrants, local taxi drivers may even speak I remember I had some problems with that in the south.Ĭhuck: Yeah. Judith: How many of the taxi drivers were actually locals, as in born and raised in the city they were driving in?Ĭhuck: Locals, let’s see, one, two- Let’s just say higher than average percentage of immigrants doing the driving. This is the new beginner series lesson 4.Ĭhuck: What do you mean have I ever taken-? You know I have lived in New York for a year? And I travelled around the world, I’ve taken plenty of taxis.

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