Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 9: Sommersonne und Abschiedslächeln

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1:02Very good. Thank you Mark. I had a great evening. How are you doing? Good, thank you. So what's going on now? I was in Glasgow and I looked at the music and it was great, it was fantastic. Okay, with the family? Yes, with my wife, with Carla. Okay, super, super. I didn't see that. Show us the art. It's really, it's very good. Yeah, it's very good, good fun. Okay, we're not here to talk about Hamilton and the musical. We're here to talk about scenes from the German, the Coffee Break German Cafe, and it's our penultimate episode, isn't it? Yes, number nine. I'm intrigued. I'm curious if some of the story threats are coming to an end if it all ties up beautifully at the end. Let's cross our fingers. What happened last time to us? One of those threats was picked up again and we saw Johanna or met Johanna again. The last student who was really down in season one because one of her best friends or somebody had strong feelings for, was about to move away. But in the last episode, we found out she didn't

2:06and they are together now and they are very happy. Yeah, all good, all good. So let's find out what happens in this episode. As usual, we'll listen to the whole story, then we'll talk about it and then we'll listen one more time. Was a success? Another last time helped us with a sunny weekend. Before he started his new work already at his new job. The mood is already

3:08cold and I will miss his help and help him. But we are also happy about his success. Erna has already written her prescription last week, and even a couple of languages ​​of life remains. Therein there is also Nadines. Felix is clever as always. He was maneuvered between the tables. He takes orders and brings the guests with him.

4:09Er scheint motivter denn je trotz der Tatsache, dass er außenbereich heute berechend voll ist und es dementsprechend viel zu tun gibt. Die Leute genießen die frühsommerliche Sonne, schlürfen in kurzermligen Oberteilen ihre Getränke und unterhalten sich munter. Alle 10 Minuten kommt erner wieder herrein um mich über den neuesten Klatsch auf dem Laufenden zu halten und hier und da auch mal eine Bestellung herauszubringen.

5:12Auch ich begebe mich schließlich nach draußen, um Siegfried ein Stück Rababakuchen zu bringen. Im selben Moment sausend zwei Jugendliche auf Rollschuhen kichend am Café vorbei. Um ein Haar hätten sie mich umgefahren und dann hätten wir den Salat. Aber zum Glück ist nichts passiert und die Jugendlichen wird mich besorgt um Entschuldigung. Ich beruhige sie mit einem Lächeln und sie fahren weiter. An diese unbeschwertende Sommerstimmung kann man sich doch gewöhnen.

6:20Aha, so it's another person we've seen and heard a lot about today. It's about Felix. Felix, and it's his final shift at the Café today. Yes, again, imagine that it was an emotional episode and I feel like Erneid and Arita will miss him. Let's go back through the text line by line. Today is it's Leider soweit. Felix, last shift steht an. Dann sein Vorstellungsgespräch im Café neulich war einer Volk. Okay, so there is, what I would say is a tongue twister in here. Felix, last shift steht an. Okay, a lot of stuff. So Anstein is like to be Jew or something like this scheduled kind of idea. Yeah, it actually has two meanings. It can also mean to Q. So if you say like, oh, we're missing on Anstein means like we have to Q in a line.

7:23But yeah, in this context it means like it's about to happen something. Yes, on the cards kind of thing. So today is this Leider soweit. Is this soweit? It's like the time has come. Yeah, genau. It's a very often used phrase, especially when you say like, oh, it is soweit. It's like, oh, the time has come. Now or never. Let's go. Okay. Felix, last shift steht an. So it's Felix, he's last shift. Dann sein Vorstellungsgespräch im Café neulich war ein Erfolg. Because his job interview, yeah, sehr gut. In the Café recently, neulich. Perfect. War ein Erfolg. It was a success. Exactly. And we heard more about it in episode six, I think, or like in a previous episode that he chose to coffee for his interview. And if that had been Weil, sein Vorstellungsgespräch im Café neulich ein Erfolg war.

8:26Exactly. Just like to make sure I know how both Weil and Dan work. Yeah, no, that's Weil, weil Gustav Variante, weil Gustav Variante. Noch ein letztes Mal hilft er uns an einem Sonnigen Wochenende aus, bevor er am Montag auch schon bei seiner neuen Arbeit anfängt. Okay. So, aus helfen hier, I think separable. Perfect, gut gesehen. Okay. So, noch ein letztes Mal, like one last time, hilft er uns aus. He's helping out an einem Sonnigen Wochenende, on a sunny weekend. Perfect. Sehr gut. Bevor er am Montag auch schon bei seiner neuen Arbeit anfängt. So, bevor he starts his new job on Monday. Exactly. Is he showing in there? I was just about to mention that I feel like, shown is one of these words that Germans love to throw into a sentence. But you don't often edit when you translate it into English.

9:29And there's no really all ready to add an all ready in the sentence, would sound a little bit strange. Yeah. But it feels perfectly normal in German. And you just kind of emphasize on that, all it's already happening on Monday. And that's why you put the shown in. Mm-hmm. But you don't always have to translate it into English. And the out there, is that part of the show? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Stimmung ist schon seit gestern bitter süß. Erna und ich werden ihn und seine Hilfe vermissen. Aber wir freuen uns natürlich auch über seinen Erfolg. Okay. So, bitter süß. Must be bitter sweet. Perfect. So, die Stimmung ist, like, the feeling that atmosphere? Yeah, the atmosphere, the mood, the mood. Yeah. So, the mood is schon seit gestern, already since yesterday. It has been bitter sweet. Erna und ich werden ihn und seine Hilfe vermissen. Erna und I will miss both him and his help. Perfect. Aber wir freuen uns natürlich auch über seinen Erfolg.

10:32But we are also, of course, happy about his success. Wunderschön übersetzt. Erna hat letzte Woche schon seine Aushilfsstelle ausgeschrieben und sogar ein paar vielversprechende Lebensläufe erhalten. Darunter übrigens auch Nadins. Ah, nice. Okay. So, Erna hat letzte Woche, so last week, Erna had already, like, advertised. Genau. Yeah. The Aushilfsstelle is the, like, the assistant position, the job. Exactly. So, we've seen Stelle before, which is just like a weakened position, but in German, you can specify what type of position it is by putting the job before it. So, we have, aushilfsstelle, you could also, for example, have, like, pilotenstelle, like the job position of a pilot. Oh, a pilot, yeah. So, here the job position of the assistant or the help, in a sense,

11:36ausgeschrieben. So, ausschrieben, ausschreiben. Sehr gut, ja. Oh, yeah. Okay. And again, andedin, right. Oh, bridge. It's important, not too much, don't forget. Yeah. jakbysieأ! A medal, ok, fine. Erna had already, what's your only job, is, um, you're adding out an add Join Machine. You're writing something. Oh, yeah. You button it out to the public and advertising it. Indeed. So, Erna had already advertised, like, part-time position, last week. An impar with a lot of capital is a few when it's with a capitalist appear over like a couple or a couple. Yeah. Yeah. So a few Feel fish black in the labens life. So is it very promising? Labens life is CVs. Yes. So lebens love CV and here the feel for speaking is just together as an adjective in front of the lebens life. So she's already received a few promising CVs darunter übrigens auch nadins among them or including nadins by the way.

12:44Perfect. Genau. übrigens by the way and we've seen darunter in the last chapter as well. Just meaning including in the morning. Felix is fleißig wie immer. Er manoeuvriert gekont zwischen den Tischen nennt bestellungen auf und grüßt die Gäste mit einem lächeln. Okay. So fleißig. We've seen it before. Is there a kind of hard working diligent. Okay. So he's as hard working as ever. Manoeuvriert gekont zwischen den Tischen. So he maneuvers gekont legs skillfully. Yeah. Gekont so it's really the past part participle of Können hier, but used as an adverb and you don't see that so often. But yeah, there is skillfully. Zwischen den Tischen, great poetic. Between the tables nennt bestellungen auf, he takes orders. Sehr gut. Und grüßt die Gäste mit einem lächeln. And he greets the guests with a smile.

13:44Wunderbar. Er scheint motivierter denn je. Trotz der Tatsache, dass der Außenbereich heute brechend voll ist und es dem entsprechend viel zu tun gibt. So er scheint motivierter denn je. So scheinend ist, like, to seem. So he seems more motivated. Perfect. Comparative. Ja. Perfect. Comparative. Ja. Ja, ist er, like, than ever. Yes. And you most, or like, you don't see den as often as a comparative. I'm more used to make comparisons. It's normally als. But you can use it as a slightly old fashioned, but you also often see it if you don't want to repeat als. Okay. And the expression den je is like a fixed expression. And I think actually it means like den je mails zuvor. So then ever before, okay, by the shortened to den je.

14:44So he seems more motivated than ever. Trotz der Tatsache, um, despite the fact. So, is it good? That's the Außenbereich. The Außenbereich is the area. So Außenbereich must be the outdoor area, like the terrace. Yeah, we saw last time we saw draußen, which is related to just outside. Außenbereich. Yeah, the area outside. The outside area. Today, the brechend fall is brechend, is it like wrecking refill? Yeah, or bursting. Burstling. Brechend to burst or to break. Okay. So it's bursting, it's very, very busy. And as de ment, sprechend viel zu tun gibt, de ment, sprechend. As well speaking, isn't there somehow, but I don't really know, de ment sprechend. And therefore, so it's, it's used to show like a cause or effect.

15:48It's like similar to folkligh, if you know folkligh. Okay. In German, so because it is bursting li full, therefore there's a lot to do. Oh, as a result, as a result, as an effect of it being bursting full, therefore there's a lot to do. Right. Okay. This is interesting because I, I looked to that word and I, I actually saw it as de ment and sprechend. Oh, I see what you mean. It's de ment sprechend. Yeah. So what is ent sprechend again? So, um, for example, in the sentence, das entspricht der Wahrheit. Mm-hmm. It means it's like that is the truth that correlates to the truth that cause, once I don't know what the, what the best English word here. Yeah. It kind of relates it cause, you may be corresponded. Okay. So it's corresponding with that. It is really full here. Right. And the, the width was interesting there because the name feels like a date of. Yeah. Right. Okay. It's, it's really interesting to see that you can sometimes splatter one up differently and it gives you a clue to what it might mean.

16:51It is, it takes to the other eyes because I've always, when I see it. And if you know that you said it, I probably can never unsee it. I will always say like de ment sprechend. De ment sprechend. But yeah, if you do a different eyes, see things differently. Um, bereich is something that I wanted to pick up one because we've just, I think when we release this episode, there will be a new video on our YouTube channel in our language adventure series. Okay. And it was a video that I filmed on the train between Berlin and another destination all the way across Germany. Can I guess you can, but it's maybe a spoiler. Um, but in that train, it was, you know, setting up to, to film a video for the day and seeing how much language I couldn't pick up on the course of a, a train journey. But I hadn't realized that booked a seat in the Hubert Reich. Yeah. And of course, it's kind of difficult to film when you're in the quiet zone or the quiet area.

17:51So, um, bereich was one of my words for, for that, that video. I started this, uh, this, the story I actually thought you might have come across the Rauchabereich, which is like the smoking area, which is always separated. And like, you know, like clearly visible, that's the only area you can smoke. But again, it's like means area. Yeah. So Rauchabereich, Ruhebereich. Yeah. Lots of bereich. Lots of bereich here. Of those opportunities to improve your vocabulary and build your vocabulary. Anyway, do check that out on our YouTube channel if you've not done so already. Um, okay. Let's continue. So, the people enjoy the early summer sun. Yes, it's very colloquial. Um,

18:53and it means to either drink very noisily. If you, for example, say to your kids like, oh, schlürft nicht so. Uh-huh. Like, schlürft. Yeah. But it can also mean to like, enjoy something slowly. Then it's like more the context of like sipping something. Right. And there are, Kurtz, Amligen, Obertylen, waiting. Um, so there are waiting short sleeve tops. Perfect. Lots of compound words, yeah. Um, so they schlürfen in Kurtz, Amligen, Obertylen, ihre getrenke. So they're drink, they're sipping their drinks, waiting short sleeve tops. Und unterhalten sich munter. And they're chatting, um, cheerfully. Cheerfully, happily. Yep. Okay. So with that summer or early summer image, we'll pause for a moment and we'll be back in just a few minutes to go on with the rest of the text. Any episode of the scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe podcast,

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22:01Okay, let's continue. All 10 minutes comes Erna again. To keep me over the latest clutch on the run. And here and there, I'll also bring out an order. Okay, clutch is a big present. Yeah, clutch and trash. Exactly. So all 10 minutes every 10 minutes comes Erna again. Erna comes back inside and I'm like, I've been wanting to keep me up to date. Up to date? Yeah. It's very good. And it's a lot of fun because it's a lot of fun. That's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun, because it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. And here and there, I'll also bring out a order. Okay, clutch is a big present. It's very good. With the latest gossip about the newest clutch, and here and there to bring out a order.

23:02And now and then are occasionally to bring out an order. Yeah. It's very good. And on the Laufenden Halten is also often used in the imperative, if you're like, oh, keep me up to date with what's happening in the office or, yeah, hold me on the Laufenden. Yeah. And actually in Austria, they don't use auf, they just see jemanden am Laufenden halten. So depends where you are in Austria and Germany, and you see, auf dem Laufenden or just am Laufenden. Am Laufenden. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So eventually I also go outside.

24:05Exactly. is just a very fancy way of seeing to go somewhere, like you're moving yourself, like kind of. Yeah. So I also go outside eventually, um Siegfried, ein Stück Rababa Kuch, Rabarberg Kuchen, zu bringen, zu bringen, Siegfried, a slice of rebarb cake. Sehr gut. Im selben Moment, 1.2 Jugendliche auf Rollschuhn, kichend am Kaffee vorbei. Okay. Im selben Moment, at that exact moment, at that same moment, Zauzen. Zauzen. Zauzen. Oh, the Swiss, the Swiss Bay. Okay. So two, you can kichend, two teenagers of Rollschuhn, on their own roller skates. Yes. So the Swiss Bay, kichend, giggling, um, they, they was by the kaffee. Perfect. Yeah. And the vorbei, again, it's just a schiefig sie auf der Sausen. So two Swiss Bay, vorbei, sausen. Oh, right. So is that separable verb then? Yes, genau. Okay. Um ein Haar, hätten Sie mich umgefahren,

25:11und dann hätten wir den Salat. Oh, two, two idioms here. Right. Okay. So by a hear, yes, hätten Sie mich umgefahren, um, they would have knocked me over. Yeah. So they all must knock me over. They almost knocked me over or ran me over, yeah. And then hätten wir den Salat. And then we would have had salad. And then, which makes sense, if you are knocked over, then you have salad afterwards. Please explain. Um, den Salat means like, you are in a messy situation. Okay. And then we would have had the mess like we would have had. And for example, if something doesn't really work out, if your car breaks down and you're on the way somewhere, it can say like, ah, it's habit in Salat. Now we're in this messy situation. No, it's a sticky situation or so. Sticky situation. Yeah. Okay. Nice idiom then. And something else I want to mention, you're just because it's very rare that you find a word like that, umfahren can be separable and not or inseparable,

26:18both at the same time and depending what it is, it has different meanings. Explain more please. Oh, question. What do you think it is here? Is it a separable one or inseparable? Well, the gay is going in between um and fahren. So I think it must be separable. Sergut. And then it means to run over or to knock over. However, if you wouldn't have the gay, and it's just umfahren, then it means to drive around something. So it's really to drive, um, it was her, um. So for example, whether traffic jam like we have, umfahren, so you've driven around rather than go through it. Exactly. Wow. And there aren't many words where you can have the same word, both separable and inseparable. And umfahren is one of those. Excellent. I think before we leave the sentence, we really need to deal with the elephant in the room that is the head. Ah, yeah, because it's a conditional. It didn't really happen. So we're using the conjunctive 2 here. By her hair, breath by her hair. They would have knocked me over and then we

27:20would have had the mess. That's the situation. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. But Okay. So, but some glück. Luckily, there's nothing that happened. Luckily, and the jugendlichen bitten me besorged. Um. Entschuldigung. So the teenagers apologized to me, um, besorged, like worriedly. Worried. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Polite teenagers, at least. And again, we had that in the last chapter, which I find interesting. It's one of those words that has a completely different meaning if you use it as an adverb adjective in the past participle or actually as the verb because besorg normally means to obtain to provide something. So if I say like, oh, besorg man, schtick besorg man, up fill, it's like, get me an apple. Yeah. But if you use it as a past participle as an adjective, it means worried or anxious. Okay. So I came them down with a smile and they move on. They continue on. Perfect.

28:44Right. I have definitely seen sich gewöhnen an etwas, I think, before. Yes, very possible. Is it like to get used to something? Perfect. An sich, sich an etwas gewöhnen to get used to something. Okay. An diese unbeschwerte Sommerstimmung. So to this summer atmosphere, um, kann man sich doch gewöhnen. You can, you can really get used to this summer atmosphere. Was unbeschwerte? So schwer is difficult. Yes, and heavy. Heavy or something, yeah. And then if you be schweren etwas, then you make it heavy. You make it heavier. And then if it's not made heavy, but the opposite. It's made like later. So it's like, carefree. Yeah, yeah. So if we were beschweren and then beschwert is the past participle and then you make the opposite

29:46by putting un in front of it so unbeschwert is like, not heavy, carefree. Right. That's nice. Like we worked our way to that. Good. Okay. Right. Um, quite a lot in this chapter. Sometimes really nice idioms. So I really like the Salat. Salat. Oh, my heart. Let's listen one more time and listen it for these interesting aspects that we've talked about. Before, he started his new work on his Monday. The vote is already on the sidelines. He and I will miss him and miss his help, but we are also happy about his success.

30:50Erne wrote his proposal last week and even spoke a few languages, but he still remains alive. Therein is also Nardines. Felix is always the same. He was maneuvered between the tables, in order to set up and increase the guests with a smile. He seems motivated despite the fact that the outside area today is full and there is a lot to do with him. The people enjoy the early summer sun, slurping in short-term areas of their drinks and keeping themselves warm. Every 10 minutes Erne comes back in to stop me over the new flat on the run. And here and there, also to bring an order out.

31:52I also offer myself to bring a piece of barbaco to Siegfried. At the same time, there are two boys on the roll school kitchen at the coffee shop. To have a tea, I had to drive around and then we had the salad. But for the happiness nothing happens and the boys stop me to apologize. I greet you with a smile and you continue driving. In this unfulfilled summer mood you can enjoy yourself. Okay, now of course, like all episodes of Scenes from the Coffee Break German Cafe, we have a set of lesson notes, a set of exercises, vocabulary and of course our spotlight videos for

32:58this lesson and the all form part of the Scenes from the Coffee Break German course. And you can find that at the Coffee Break Academy, so head to coffeebreakacademy.com and you'll see the Scenes course there. There's also a bundle version of the course for Scenes, Scenes 1 and Scenes, Scenes 2. Okay, now and if you're in the mood to learn more about these idioms like the insolat haben or bit more complex verbs like sich an etwas gewöhnen, then make sure to subscribe to a weekly free newsletter that comes out every Friday because that's exactly the occasion for us to deal with these kind of complex niche topics and you'll find more about them there. If you want to just head over to coffeebreaklanguages.com, slash German. Ausgezeichnet. Also Thomas, vielen Dank. Ah, sehr gerne, Max. Habt wie immer Spaß gemacht. So, we had Johanna, we had Felix,

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