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Also auf Wiederhören!' -> 'Auf Wiederhören!' - to match the example of 'Auf Wiedersehen!' Replacement: 'Wir müssen jetzt Schluss machen.Replacement: '8.00 Uhr' -> '8:00 Uhr' to allow the text-to-speach to speak as expected.Replacement: 'Zahlen, bitte!' -> 'Wir möchten zahlen, bitte!' to ensure the word 'pay' is used in the sentence.Replacement: 'kulturell' -> 'kulturell interessiert' to better fit the example sentence.Replacement: 'bei' -> 'bei uns' to better fit the example sentence.Replacement: 'einmal' replaced with 'noch einmal' to better fit the example sentence.Replacement: 'Ich wohne Messeplatz 5.' replaced with 'Ich wohne neben dem Platz.' - since addresses are not translated, this would not demonstrate the noun 'Platz'.Replacement: 'Hören Sie die Ansagen.' replaced with 'Hören Sie auf die Ansagen.' following feedback from a native German speaker.Replacement: 'Haben Sie Telefon?' replaced with 'Haben Sie ein Telefon?' following feedback from a native German speaker.Replacement: 'Herr Ober, kann ich bitte Salz haben?' replaced with 'Entschuldigung, kann ich bitte das Salz haben?' after feedback from a native German speaker ('Herr Ober is an outdated way of addressing a waiter at a restaurant.').

There are a small number of modifications of this nature, or instance, where I have added an additional sentence to distinguish between two common usages of a word. However, since addresses are not translated, this would not have been a useful sentence to translate, so I changed it to 'Ich wohne neben dem Platz.' 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.

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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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