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GERMAN in ENGLISH - Part 1
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MP3 AUDIO 1 - BRANDS - PEOPLE/THINGS
Brand names as they sound in German:
Adidas, Bayer, Braun, Porsche, Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa, Volkswagen

People and things:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dr. Seuss, Loess, Neanderthal, Gerhard Schröder, Steffi Graf, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Henry Kissinger, Jörg Haider

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GERMAN in ENGLISH - Part 2
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MP3 AUDIO 2 - GERMAN IN ENGLISH
Common German words in English as pronounced by Germans:
Kindergarten, Gesundheit, Poltergeist, Strudel, Dachshund, kaputt, Schadenfreude, verboten, Ersatz, Rottweiler, Gestalt, Weltanschauung, Angst, Fahrenheit, Frankfurter, Wiener, Zeppelin, Leitmotiv, Rucksack, Fahrvergnügen

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