Jacqueline asked me to produce this beginner's show. She wanted to know what the furniture in a room is called in German. So let's start our tour through a virtual apartment. If you enter a typical German apartment, you open the door, the door, the door and get into a corridor. It is called corridor. Here you can take your shoes off and put your coat on a hanger. The place to store your shoes and coat is called wardrobe. Wardrobe. It is the cloakroom. But now off on our tour!
We start with the living-room. It is called in German living rooms. Living room. In the living-room there's usually a place to sit, for example a couch. We also call it a couch in German. Or sofa. If you sit on a sofa and want to drink something, you put it in front of you on a small table. That table is called a coffee table. Coffee table.
In some living-rooms so there's a space for dining. But many homes have a separate dining area that is called. Dining room. Dining room. The main piece of furniture here is a table. It is called in German table. The table. You sit at a table. And you sit on chairs. Chairs are called chairs. One chair is a chair. More chairs are chairs. Chairs.
We go through to the bedroom. It is called in German bedrooms. Bedroom. The main thing in a bedroom is the bed, of course. And that one is easy to remember, it is called in German bed. Bed. Beside the bed there is a small table to put books on. It is called a bedside table. Night-table. On it there is a lamp. The bedside lamp. Night-table lamp. You put your clothes in a wardrobe, it is called in German cabinet. Cabinet.
What more is there to tell you? If you want to store your books somewhere, you put them on a shelf. A shelf is a shelf. Shelf. I think that's enough for today. Have fun learning German!
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Jacqueline asked me to produce this beginner's show. She wanted to know what the furniture in a room is called in German. So let's start our tour through a virtual ...
