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Hello everyone and welcome to the LingQ podcast with Me Elle. Hi|all of you|||||||||

Today I'll be joined by the amazing Katja who runs the website and |||||||Katja||||| |||||||Katja||||| |||||||Katja|||||

YouTube channel Deutsch für Euch. |||für|für euch ||||para vocês

Please excuse my German pronunciation there.

It's a fantastic resource for anyone learning German or interested

in starting to learn German. |||study|

Before we get into it, let me remind you that all episodes of

this podcast are available as LingQ lessons, so you can listen and go

through the transcript, translating words and phrases that don't know.

The course is called English LingQ Podcast 2.0, and the lesson link will always be

in the description, so go checked out. in der Beschreibung, also ausgecheckt.

LingQ allows you to learn from content you love: podcasts, Netflix

shows, movies, YouTube videos, blog posts, news articles, music lyrics.

Whatever you're into, you can create a lesson with it on lingQ and have

fun on your language learning journey.

So Katja runs this wonderful resource for German learners, and

you may also recognize her as the host of the German LingQ podcast. you may also recognize her as the host of the German LingQ podcast.

Yay. Juhu

Katja, thank you so much for joining me today.

How are you?

Of course, I'm good.

Thank you for having me.

I'm, uh, I, I, I am sweaty, but I think that's just, we're gonna have ||||||потный|||||||| ||||||perspiring|||||||| ||||||suado||||||||

to suffer through that together now. |пережить|||| sufrirlo juntos ahora.

Yeah, yeah.

We were talking, we're both in heatwaves, so in Germany. ||||||жаркие волны||| ||||||Hitzewellen||| ||||||hot weather||| ||||||olas de calor||| ||||||ondas de calor|||

How's it looking, like today what's the high, for example?

Let me check, because I am in the south, so of course, ooh, of course I get it Let me check, because I am in the south, so of course, ooh, of course I get it

worse than other people, even, even still. pior|||||| worse than other people, even, even still.

Uh, yeah.

Well, it's saying that it's 27 Celsius right now, but the humidity...

that's pretty hot.

...is constantly at 60%.

It's, it's, it's tropical. |||tropisch |||warm and humid

That's the worst.

I didn't ask for this.

Yeah.

. I didn't sign up for this. . Yo no me apunté a esto.

Exactly.

The humidity is what gets you, you know? La humedad es lo que te atrapa, ¿sabes?

You're just like dripping in sweat as you...

yes.

I don't mind the heat or cold.

It's all good, but the humidity.

No.

Yeah, I have to agree.

But besides that, I'm good.

And I'm glad to be here.

Good.

Excellent.

Good, good.

we're gonna hit, my watch tells me we're gonna hit 34 degrees today in Vancouver,

Canada, which is not normal for us.

Uh, it's the hottest day of this heat wave.

So, I'm just in my cave here.

All the lights off, fans, but... ||as luzes|||

which we've turned off for recording, so Yes. que hemos apagado para grabar, así que sí.

We're gonna look Dewey. |||в Дьюи |||Dewey (1) |||like Dewey |||como Dewey |||Dewey

So it's all good.

So Katja, your channel, uh, Deutsch für Euch uh, was founded uh, almost

10 years ago now, and it's a wonderful resource for, I guess mostly, uh, English

native speakers who would like to learn German and learn about German culture.

So tell us what made you start the channel.

Right.

Um, Yeah, no, you got that exactly right.

I would, I would correct it is to say anyone who speaks English well,

of course can, can use the videos.

But I did, uh, start it and I do make a lot of videos still with, um, native

speakers in particular in mind because I use a lot of, and this is partly because

of me just, you know, English as the language I speak best besides German.

And I think a lot in English, and I think a lot about how they're

comparable or different and, uh, the challenges that especially vergleichbar|||||||| similar||||||||

English speakers are gonna face. Los angloparlantes se van a enfrentar.

Now that I'm also fluent in Russian, the same things happen to me with Russian.

But at the time, you know, my knowledge about other languages

really wasn't good enough to do that.

So that was one thing.

And then what I always say is the reasons, like the collection of reasons for why

I started the channel was basically, uh, I really, really love languages. Comecei o canal basicamente, uh, eu realmente amo idiomas.

I've always had a knack for languages. ||||natural talent|| ||||habilidad especial|| ||||talento especial||

Um, so that was one I, I knew that that topic interested me.

I like explaining things to people.

I like teaching.

It's also what I've chosen as my field of study and I, uh, I, yeah, that might

seem like a superficial reason in that row of things, but I also really always |||surface-level||||||||||| |||||||linha||||||| |||superficial|||||||||||

wanted to be a YouTuber, not even just a content creator, but mostly YouTuber

because I started exploring YouTube even with a signed up account in like 20... ||||||||inscrição feita|||| porque empecé a explorar YouTube incluso con una cuenta registrada en como 20...

no in 2006.

Yeah, so like really, really early.

And I always wanted to do something and I never had a topic and I

never had the stamina to stick with anything for like longer than a month. |||Ausdauer|||||||||| |||endurance|||||||||| nunca tuve la resistencia para seguir con algo por más de un mes.

And, uh, then with Deutsch für Euch it worked because I really enjoy it.

Excellent.

Wow.

And let me just backtrack to what you said, that you're all, so you're ||||вернусь назад||||||||| ||||zurückkommen||||||||| ||||revisit||||||||| ||||regresar|||||||||

fluent in English, obviously, , and you're also fluent in Russian now?

Amazing.

Yes.

Not to the degree...

and how long...

yeah, not to the degree, as in, in, in German or English. ||||grau|||||||

I even have days where like my English is better than my German

now, which is really weird.

Um, but it feels that way anyway, let's say that.

And I'm definitely not there with Russian, but yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm(1)|

when did you start learning English?

Uh, pretty standardly. ||стандартно ||standardmäßig ||in a standard way ||de manera estándar ||de forma padrão

Uh, so in school I started, um, well now kids in Germany are learning

English from, I think grade one.

There it's gonna be very like, playful and stuff, but still it's been ||||||игриво||||||

integrated into elementary schools. ||Grundschulen|

When I was in elementary, that wasn't a thing yet.

Um, I remember we were taught like one or one to three words a

year and half of those were wrong. año y medio se equivocaron.

So I remember being taught that "You're welcome" is "please", because

in German we say, "Bitta, please." ||||пожалуйста| ||||bitte| ||||please| ||||por favor|

"Danka. Данка(1) Danka(1) Thank you Danka

Thank you."

"Bitta.

You're welcome."

And so the teacher just translated that literally, "please.

Thank you, please."

Um, so that was the level.

I did have like an introductory English course in like third grade by, uh, |||||Einführung||||||||

voluntary, you know, she wasn't a teacher, but she was a native speaker. optional||||||||||||

Um, and then I started learning in fifth grade, but the main like chunk

of English that I learned started around the time that I was, you know,

started to explore the internet because yeah, this must have been like 20...

I keep saying 20 because we're in the twenties now, 2005 ish.

5, 6, 7 around that, that time.

And I just spent a lot of time online and exploring.

And to be fair, there was definitely more German content even back then

than there was in, I don't know, Arabic or many other languages.

But still it was very limited, right?

So you, you could explore the German internet relatively quickly and so if...

yeah and then stuff like YouTube started happening and there you had people

posting vlogs and that was mostly people doing it in English, especially |влоги|||||||||| |Vlogs|||||||||| |vlogs||||||||||

of course the, the visible ones.

So everywhere I went online, and that's where I started spending a

lot of my time, there was English, so I didn't really have a choice.

That was one thing.

And then the other thing was I really started getting

into anime in my early teen.

And there same thing, if you wanted to find subtitles, which were usually done by

fans who like took the shows from TV and then put subtitles and put them online,

um, that would be a subtitles in English.

So I would sit there and watch my anime and like every three

sentences there would be a word that I didn't know and I'd look it up. frases havia uma palavra que eu não conhecia e eu procurava.

So that's how I learned a lot of vocabulary.

So most of my English is definitely uh, internet-grown combined with,

you know, movies and stuff, Of course, but it's mostly the internet.

Right.

And a decent chunk of it is actually standup comedy. ||||||||Stand-up|

Oh, I love it.

Okay.

Who do you, who do you like, what comedians are you enjoy? ||||||||комики|||

Well, the UK hass a huge scene, right? |||имеет|||| |||hat|||| |||has|||| |||tiene|||| |||tem||||

And then there's also a lot of American comedians, so um, I'm a

bit embarrassed to say that I think the first standup comic I ever like

really watched a lot of was Dane Cook. ||||||Дейн Кук| ||||||Dane Cook| ||||||Dane Cook| ||||||Dane Cook|

I dunno who that is.

That's, that's totally fine.

Dan Cook? person's name|

Dane, Dane, Dane Cook.

Dane, but I think his name is Daniel, but he just called himself Dane.

Um, he was a really big thing for a while in the mid two thousands. Um, él era una cosa muy grande por un tiempo a mediados de los dos mil.

It's not that he was like hugely offensive or whatever, but it's like I can see why ||||||enormemente||||||||||

I thought it was funny at 14 and I can see why I no longer find it funny now. A mí me hacía gracia a los 14 años y ya veo por qué ahora ya no me hace gracia.

You know, that kind of thing.

Right.

Um, someone I discovered back then as well, and still really love is actually

Christopher Titus, American comedian. |Titus|| |Titus||

Not everyone's style probably, but yeah.

One of my favorites.

As for Brits Eddie Izzard. ||||Иззард ||||Eddie Izzard ||||Izzard

Um...

yes, I love Eddie Izzard. |||Eddie Izzard|

With like Michael McIntyre. |||МакИнтайр |||McIntyre |||McIntyre

I don't know if he is done anything recently, but I always

circle back to Russell Howard. |||Russell Howard| ||||Howard

Um,

I don't know him.

You don't?

No, I know.

I'm, I shouldn't be writing a list.

I'm gonna get these names.

Some of the names I don't know.

Cause I thought, I thought this one, like, that's the name she's gonna know for sure.

Cause I don't know how much standup comedy you enjoy.

Um...

I, I mean, I dabble, but, uh yeah, russell Howard, you know, maybe... ||||experimentiere|||||||| ||||practico un poco|||||||| ||||brinco com||||||||

because he has like a weekly review show, so I thought he must probably be like a

name you come across every now and then. nombre con el que te cruzas de vez en cuando.

Ooh.

You know, I've been out in the UK for such a long time.

That's fair.

Maybe I just missed it.

You know?

Oh, and Sarah Milken. |||Сара Милкен |||Milken |||a person's name |||Milken

I also enjoy every, She's, she's British.

She's Geordie, as far as I'm aware. |жительница Джорди||||| |aus Newcastle||||| |de Newcastle|||||

Oh, okay.

I love that accent.

Okay.

And there's, yeah, and then there was that big Daniel Sloss moment a ||||||||||Слосс|| ||||||||||Sloss-Moment|| ||||||||||Daniel Sloss|| ||||||||||Sloss||

few years ago that I really got into.

And like, there's a lot, there's just, there's a lot.

There's a few people that I discover and then I don't remember them.

And then there's some people I follow for a while.

But, um yeah.

I just really enjoy comedy as like, this is gonna sound so like comedy podcast, but

it's as, as an art or rather as a craft.

I like well constructed jokes a lot, so.

Yeah.

Ad it is a craft, right? ||||ofício|

Like, to be funny is, is no easy thing and like you say, yeah, to craft a, a

joke, something that is truly funny and clever or, you know, there's inuendo. ||||||||||||намек ||||||||||||Anspielung ||||||||||||innuendo ||||||||||||doble sentido

Yeah.

It's.

It's, it's very...

and it's so language involved maybe to like circle back to that topic. 这涉及到语言，也许我们应该回到这个话题。

And I think it's no accident that I'm into it so much because if I, 我认为我如此热衷于它并非偶然，因为如果我

for example, I'm never gonna get into a comic who doesn't, to some

degree at least play with language.

And you will also find me laughing at moments that are mostly just like,

not even wordplay, but like using, for example, an overly technical or an overly ||игра слов||||||||||| ||Wortspiel||||||||||| ||juegos de palabras|||||||||||

high register word in a weird context or stuff like that, because I just enjoy |hoher Register||||||||||||| 在奇怪的语境中使用高音域词或类似的东西，因为我只是喜欢

when people have fun with language.

And that's a huge part of good comedy because that is your medium, right?

So you should know how to use it well, and not just yell. ||||||||||||schreien

Just yell or just be offensive. |grite||||

Exactly.

So to circle back to the language thing, um, and your channel, which helps people

learn German, what would you say, uh, so some of the, uh, the common issues that

people who are learning German run into? ¿con qué se encuentran las personas que aprenden alemán?

Ha.

So yeah, just so many, or well, to get, like, to get like teachery for a second. |||||||||||||учительский||| |||||||||||||lehrerhaft||| |||||||||||||like a teacher||| |||||||||||||como maestro|||

Of course, the, the issues are gonna differ depending on like your

background, what's your native language?

How many languages do you speak?