10 German words that look English: true friends or false friends?
4/13/20268 min
Are you ready for a test? In this episode, Thomas presents 10 German words that look just like English words and challenges you to decide whether they share the same meaning or not. You'll pick up some new vocabulary and learn to avoid some surprisingly common misunderstandings.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
My wife won't stop talking about Jerry.
Speaker 10:02
Jerry?
Speaker 00:03
Says he saved us money on car insurance.
Speaker 10:05
Mine too. Found her a better rate and didn't waste her time.
Speaker 00:10
Who is this guy?
Speaker 20:11
Babe, Jerry checked again and found us an even better rate. Pulled 20 quotes from top insurers, showed them side by side, and helped me switch policies in the app.
Speaker 00:21
It's a car insurance app.
Speaker 10:22
Yep.
Speaker 00:23
Let's just- Never happened.
Speaker 20:25
Do yourself a favor. Visit jerry.ai/acast.
Thomas· Host0:30
[upbeat music] Einen wunderschönen guten Tag und hallo bei Coffee Break German. Ich bin's mal wieder, Thomas. Und heute habe ich ein kurzes Quiz für dich. We are talking about words today that look very similar in both English and in German. Sometimes they also have very similar meanings. Let's call these words true friends. But sometimes the meaning is completely different, also better known as a false friend. Your challenge is to decide what category each of the 10 German words falls into. Is it a true friend or is it a false friend? I will say each word twice and then give you some time to think about it before revealing the English meaning. And just in case you think you will already know most of these words, ah, don't be too sure. I specifically