Learn German with this 13-minute German Conversation for Beginners lesson. In this video, you'll learn 50 basic German phrases to help you learn German fast. Our native English speaker will say each phrase, then our native German speaker will repeat the phrase twice in German.

These casual German phrases are good for friendships, relationships, dating, or just meeting a stranger, who is the same age as you, in a German-speaking country.

In German there are two different ways to translate the word “you”: Formal = Sie, Casual = Du. This video demonstrates a casual conversation between younger people of approximately the same age, so uses “du”. See our comment below for more details.

In German, many job titles have both a masculine and feminine form, with the masculine form being used to describe the occupation in general terms. In this video, the German phrase “Er ist Englischlehrer.” is used for “He is an English teacher”. If the English phrase was “She is an English teacher,” the German phrase would be “Sie ist Englischlehrerin.”

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