![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the sentences from the Goethe Institute were not brilliant example of the use of a word in context - for instance, "Platz" had an example of "I wohne am Messeplatz 5.". This avoids a word having only one translation, which may not appear in the translated sample sentence (without it being a tortured rephrasing). Where a word has multiple translations and sample sentences, these were split into individual notes. ![]() In such cases the word is not translated, but an ellipsis ('.') is given in place of the word's translation. Note that sometimes there are set phrases in which transating the word directly does not make sense. Some cards have an additional comment to clarify the context, for instance, indicating if a colleague is male or female. The back of each card is a translation of the german word and example sentence. Verbs are provided in the infinitive and nouns with their definite articles. The front of each card is a german word with an example sentence. The audio was created automatically by google cloud using the AwesomeTTS (Google Cloud Text-to-Speech) plugin with the "German (de-DE-German-Wavenet-A)" setting, which saved me a tremendous amount of work, and saved everyone else from having to listen to my voice :)įinally, I used the Add note id plugin to add ids to the notes in case I need to make future corrections. The Advanced Browser plugin was invaluable for finding these entries when adding the audio. These do not have any audio, as the TTS does not handle the plural notation gracefully. This extra vocabulary is primarily colours, months, days, numbers, units, and other elementary concepts that will likely be useful. I included the additional snippets of vocabulary that appear before the list proper, but without example sentences since none were provided. ![]() This was not a scripted process, and involved quite a lot of spreadsheet and text editor adjustments to get things into a reasonable state. I created this deck by opening the wordlist document and exporting the list of words and associated example sentences. Both of us are native English speakers, so there are unlikely to be errors, but we are only human. I translated the words and sentences personally, and a professional German->English translator proofread the results. This deck is maintained in a public GitHub repository here. The original document is available here as a PDF. This is the Goethe Institute's A1 wordlist (including example sentences), translated into English, using double-sided cards and machine-generated audio. ![]()
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