📘 Colloquial German for Beginners

🟩 UNIT 2: Small Talk and Introductions

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🗣️ Conversations & Vocabulary

Explore dialogues in Standard German, Colloquial German, and regional dialects (Bavarian, Swabian). Click phrases to hear pronunciation.

Markus: Guten Morgen! Wie geht es Ihnen?

Lisa: Guten Morgen! Mir geht es gut, danke. Und Ihnen?

Markus: Auch gut, danke. Ich heiße Markus. Wie heißen Sie?

Translation:

Markus: Good morning! How are you?

Lisa: I’m good, thanks. And you?

Markus: Also good, thanks. My name is Markus. What’s your name?

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📚 Grammar Focus: Present Tense of Regular Verbs

Learn how regular verbs like “machen” and “lernen” are conjugated in Standard German, with colloquial variations.

Conjugation Cards for "machen"

Ich

Machen (Standard): mache

Du

Machen (Standard): machst

Er/Sie/Es

Machen (Standard): macht

Wir

Machen (Standard): machen

Ihr

Machen (Standard): macht

Sie/sie

Machen (Standard): machen

Colloquial Variations

In colloquial German, verb forms may be contracted. Examples:

Colloquial (Du): machst’n (instead of "machst du")

Colloquial (Was): Was machst’n so?

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Drag-and-Drop: Match Conjugations

Match the conjugation to the pronoun for "machen" or "lernen" (Standard German).

mache

machst

macht

lerne

lernst

lernt

Ich (machen)

Du (machen)

Er/Sie/Es (machen)

Ich (lernen)

Du (lernen)

Er/Sie/Es (lernen)

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✍️ Exercises

Exercise 1: Fill in the Blank (Standard German)

Fill in the blank with the correct form of “machen” in Standard German.

1. Ich meine Hausaufgaben.

2. Du was?

Exercise 2: Matching Phrases to Dialects

Drag each phrase to its corresponding dialect.

Phrases

• Guten Morgen
• Na, wie läuft’s
• Servus
• Grüß di

Dialects

• Standard German
• Colloquial German
• Bavarian
• Swabian

Solutions

• Guten Morgen – Standard German
• Na, wie läuft’s – Colloquial German
• Servus – Bavarian
• Grüß di – Swabian

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