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Water Sports

Although the World Cup has been in focus over the last few weeks, we're going to devote this week's newsletter not to soccer, but to water sports. 

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Für den Zuschauer ist das Turmspringen sicher eine der faszinierendsten Wassersportarten.

For the spectator, platform diving is certainly one of the most fascinating water sports.

Caption 34, Olympische Spiele: Wasserspringen

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Der Vorderrhein, der längere der beiden Quellflüsse, ist nicht nur bei Wassersportlern sehr beliebt.

The Anterior Rhine, the longer of the two headstreams, is not only very popular among water sports enthusiasts.

Captions 35-36, Wilde Schweiz: Sommer - Part 2

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Many water sports involve boats of different sizes. Both das Boot and das Schiff are neuter nouns, and so are compound nouns such as das Ruderboot ("rowboat") and das Segelschiff ("sailing ship").

 

Also, wir wollen mehr schwimmen, Kanu fahren. Also, Fußball ist nicht mein Ding.

Well, we want to swim more, go canoeing. Well, soccer isn't my thing.

Caption 36, Umfragen: Nach der WM

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Es gibt auch sehr viele Boote und Kayaks, auf denen man einen schönen, sonnigen Tag verbringen kann. 

There are also many boats and kayaks on which you can spend a beautiful, sunny day. 

Captions 23-24, Yabla reist durch Europa: Genua und Portofino

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Jetzt könnt ihr segeln übers Meer

Now you guys can sail across the sea

Caption 12, Andreas Bourani: Voll gerne (aus "Vaiana")

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Of course there are many others that involve special equipment, such as surfing (das Surfen), snorkeling (das Schnorcheln), and others.

 

Meine Eltern haben sich mit dem Windsurfen verliebt in Dänemark.

My parents fell in love with windsurfing in Denmark.

Caption 80, Dunkerbeck: So lebt die Windsurflegende heute

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Zum Beispiel Tauchen, Surfen, Rudern und Schwimmen.

For example, diving, surfing, rowing, or swimming.

Caption 23, Deutsch mit Eylin: Sportarten

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Further Learning

Look up any water sports that you're familiar with and see if they're mentioned on Yabla German!

Exercise

This week's lesson is all about exercise! When you think of "exercise" in the context of Yabla German, you might immediately think of language exercises, but we are now talking about die Übung in relation to der Sport or das Training. These are two common nouns for "the exercise" or "the workout," along with their related verbs: 

 

Ja, mehr Sport machen, drei Kilo abnehmen und eine Tätowierung.

Yeah, exercise more, lose three kilos and a tattoo.

Caption 31, Silvester: Vorsätze für das neue Jahr - Karlsruhe

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Ganz gemütlich, wir trainieren hier jetzt die Oberschenkel.

Very comfortably, we are training the thighs now.

Caption 68, TEDx: Lebenslange Fitness

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When people go to the gym (ins Fitnessstudio gehen), they may use particular machines or equipment. But there are lots of exercises that can be done just with a mat, or no equipment at all:

 

Ja, also, ich muss sagen, ich trainiere wirklich sehr, sehr gerne im Fitnessstudio, also wirklich auch im Freihantelbereich.

Yeah, well, I have to say, I really, really like to work out at the gym, really in the free weights area too.

Captions 54-55, Anja Polzer: Interview

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Er reagiert genauso auf Training wie dein Bizeps auf Hanteltraining.

It responds to exercise the same way like your biceps to dumbbell training.

Captions 9-10, Deutsch mit Eylin: Kreatives Schreiben

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Liegestütze, Kniebeugen... und solche Sachen.

Pushups, squats... and things like that.

Caption 48, Deutsch mit Eylin: Sportarten

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So, die nächste Übung ist auch wieder für die Beine, wir machen einen ganz weiten Ausfallschritt nach vorne.

So, the next exercise is also for the legs again, we make a very big lunge forward.

Captions 19-20, Workout mit Erik: Übungen für Arme, Beine, Po, Rücken

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Ja, was man auch machen kann, ist zum Beispiel, Sit-ups, Bauchtraining.

Yes, what you can also do are, for example, sit-ups, abdominal training.

Caption 33, Finanzassistentin: Sarah interviewt Cettina

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Of course, some people do not like gyms and prefer to get exercise outside or through team sports:

 

Es ist dreimal effektiver auch als joggen, das heißt, du verbrennst hier dreimal mehr Kalorien als beim Joggen.

It's also three times more effective than jogging — that is, you burn three times as many calories here than when jogging.

Captions 53-54, Rhein-Main Ferien: 360 Jump in Dietzenbach

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Further Learning
On Yabla German, you can watch Erik's workout video in its entirety to get a sense of how a sequence of exercises would be directed in German, or watch Eylin's video on sports to learn the German words for all sorts of sports.