Weekly English Words with Alisha - German Words in English

Hello, and welcome back to Weekly Words. My name is Alisha, and this week we are

going to talk about German words in English. I'm gonna try so hard not to do an accent

when I read these.

“Lager.” “Lager” is a word that I know very well. “Lager” refers to a kind

of beer, um, so when you go to a beer festival like Oktoberfest,

for example, you might say, “This year I'm planning to drink a lot of lager!” Or a

lot of “lager” beer. It’s a type of beer.

The next word is “wanderlust.” This is a nice word. “Wanderlust” just means that

you have “a desire to travel somewhere.” You wanna

go somewhere. You might say, “I've been seeing all the photos that my friends have

been posting on the internet lately. It's giving me wanderlust,” meaning I really

wanna go travel. I really want to be out there doing those

things.

The next word is “zeppelin.” This is on a big airship. Oh, isn’t there like an Indiana

Jones thing? Toss this guy out of a “zeppelin?” It's just... It’s, oh, what do we call it

now? A blimp… right? A blimp. We say “blimp” a lot now, but “zeppelin” I think was

the first word that was used to describe these things because I think they, they were made

out of metal, so for example, you might know the band Led Zeppelin. That can be related

to the first “zeppelin.” I don't actually know. Is it? Um, so in a sentence, you might

use this and to say something like, “Oh, someday I'd really like to take a ride in

a zeppelin. That sounds like fun.”

Next word is “dachshund.” “Dachshund.” You probably know what a “dachshund” is.

We commonly call them “wiener dogs” in America because they're long. Sometimes they

have long hair too, but they look like, you know,

a hotdog. So “dachshunds,” I think, are popular breeds all around the world. You might

say, “My friend got a new dachshund. I can't wait to play with it.”

Ah, “gesundheit” is the next word. “Gesundheit is used often when people sneeze, so, uh,

Americans like to say, “Bless you,” after somebody sneezes, but you might also hear

“gesundheit” after someone sneezes. It's usually just used as one word. We don't really

say it in a sentence very much, but when your friend sneezes or somebody you know sneezes,

you can say “gesundheit.”

That’s the end of German words that we use in English. I hope that you learned something.

I did, as I always do when I film these, interestingly enough. Thanks very much again for watching,

and we'll see you again next week for a new Weekly Words. Bye-bye!