Beginner German: Furniture/ das Möbel

Hello, I saw most of you (those who land on my Blog) are level A1, that means beginners. That´s good. I was also a beginner 2 years ago. Let´s talk a little bit about furniture in a room.

das Möbel = furniture


Below you will find Vocabulary.  It would help you more if you try to find out alone the translation, in your own language. You can use for English the "Wörterbuch" that appears in the right lower corner of the screen. Just double-click on the word you don´t understand.

das Bett
der Tisch
der Schreibtisch
der Esstisch
der Sofatisch
der Nachttisch
die Kommode
der Schrank
der Kleiderschrank
der Küchenschrank
das Sofa / die Couch
der Sessel
der Stuhl
der Schreibtischstuhl
der Küchenstuhl
der Teppich
das Regal
das Bücherregal


Listen to this Podcast von Annik  to hear the words.
Pons Bildwörterbuch will help you a little with pronunciation.

Below you can see how 3 people describe their rooms. After reading it, try to describe your room too. You can add this in comments if you like.

I will give you a hint. It helps when you write the words on post-it and place all those on the furniture in your house. You will see the words and read them several times a day, until you know them all.

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• even practicing guitar chords!

This is how Anki´s developer describes it´s program on http://ankisrs.net/

Studies have shown that 48 hours after a study session, we have generally forgotten 75% of the material. When undertaking something that requires a lot of memorization, such as studying a new language, forgetting 75% of the material you learn can be very demotivating. So I have decided to try it out myself. And it works :)

After testing some existing decks I´ve realized it would be much effective if I use my own cards, to remember for example, the vocabulary from a given lesson. Indeed, now I can remember much more easier the new words. One of my tricks are to introduce together with the word expressions and examples. Here is a model:

What do you think? And of course, I try to make so that the explanation is also in German, to learn the language as naturally as possible for a non-native. 

One of my friends, Helen, suggested me to make a deck with the words requested at official tests, as for example a list of words for "Start Deutsch 1" for the level A1. This means a lot of work, there are more then 500 words, and I am already over that level. But I think this could help a lot for someone at the beginning. Of course, I would make the cards much more easier.

For example:

kommen < kommt, kam, ist gekommen >

Intr.Verb

_______ mal her!

Woher _________ das Brot?

Er _______ aus Italien.

Wir _______ spät nach Hause.

and on the other side would be the answers:

Komm mal her!

Woher kommt das Brot?

Er kommt aus Italien.

Wir kommen spät nach Hause.

So I said it is better to ask first, is there anybody who would be interested to have such a deck? 

Please leave your comments below or on Facebook.

Also if you have any other suggestions or observations share them.

Download Anki today or use it online, as it better suits you. Just give it a try. For me, it works great.