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Lesson 1 - Statements, Verben, Conjugations

Lesson 2: Unusual Verbs

Lesson 3: Introduction to Articles and Nouns in German

Lesson 4: Modal Verbs

Lesson 5: Verbs with Prefixes

Lesson 6: Imperativ

Lesson 7: Ja-/Nein-Fragen

Lesson 8: W-Fragen

Lesson 9: der, die, das, die (Review)

Lesson 10: er, sie, es, sie

Lesson 11: ein, eine, ein, -

Lesson 12: kein, keine, kein, keine

Lesson 13: Possessivartikel

Lesson 14: Verbs in the Simple Past Tense

Lesson 15: The Cases in German: Nominativ

Lesson 16: The Cases in German: Akkusativ

Lesson 17: The Cases in German: Dativ

Lesson 18: Personalpronomen and Possessivpronomen in the Three Cases

Lesson 19: Prepositions in the Nominativ and Akkusativ

Lesson 20: Prepositions in the Dativ

Lesson 21: Wechselpräpositionen

Lesson 22: Verbs in Present and Future Tenses

Lesson 23: Verbs in the Perfekt

Lesson 24: The Adjective Endings in the Nominativ

Lesson 25: The Adjective Endings in Akkusativ und Dativ

Episode #7

Lesson 7: Ja-/Nein-Fragen

7.1 Working Backwards from ja or nein

First we want to consider the answer we're attempting to get at: Do we want a Yes or No answer, or do we need a little more information?

If the answer is Yes or No, then we ask a yes-or-no question. In German, this is a Ja-/Nein-Frage.

Let's say we want to find out if Gisela is reading the news right now. A Yes/No answer is the most direct answer anyone could give.

What we don't want to know are things like how long she has been reading. We're not interested in finding out when she's going to drink tea, nor do we want to know who her neighbors

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