Yourdailyfailure Advent Calendar
“A conditional quickie“
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Hello everyone
and welcome to door number 23 of our Advent calendar.
And while the title actually suggests something salacious and naughty, the reality is a lot more “sober”.
Because on Christmas, it’s important to be humble.
And the best way to get into that mind set is to fail a little at .. I mean, to do a little
exercise for German conditional
Hooray!!
Now, in my series on conditional, we’ve already done a couple of exercises together, but what we haven’t done yet is an exercise where you actually get to speak. Which is the best practice for stuff like conditional, to be honest.
And that’s what we’ll do today.
I’ll give you a normal sentence in German, like this:
- Ich trinke ein Bier.
And you’ll have to change that into normal conditional
- Ich würde ein Bier trinken.
And you’ll have to answer by actually saying it and the speech AI will give you feedback how well your version matched with the actual correct answer.
Many of you are probably familiar with it already, but let’s do a quick dry run again.
Just click record, say the following, and click record again to lock in your answer.
“eins zwei drei”
(The record button changes color when it is working. So if it DOESN’T change color, that means, something is wrong – probably the browser blocking access to the mic. Let me know if you need help with that.)
If your version matches well enough, you’ll get a word for word feedback and you can move on, or do more takes to improve.
The difficulty here is set to “60% overall match”, but if that’s too difficult or too easy, you can adjust in the quizz, to the level you want.
And if you want to hear me say it, just click “hint” and you’ll see a text hint and a play button for my own version.
Now, if you do not know what that is or how to build it, then check out my series about it here:
Conditional in German (part 1)
Today, we’ll only do the normal conditional in present tense. And we’ll use the forms wäre(-) for sein, hätte(-) for haben and würde(-) for all the rest.
And keep in mind… it is OKAY if you DON’T get them all right. What matters is that you understand WHY you made a mistake, so you can improve.
Just do the workout a few times over a week so the patterns and rhythms can really sink in.
All right… I think we’re all set now, so viel Spaß :)
Let me know in the comments how you did and how you liked the exercise. I think it’s a great way to practice this stuff, but if you have ideas how to improve it, let me know.
I hope you had fun, have a great day and I’ll see you tomorrow.
Das hat mir Spass gemacht. Danke. I hab nichts gehört wann ich den „hint“gedrückt.
Diese Übung erinnert mich an eine Frage und zwar, wann verwendet man idiomatisch “ginge” im Gegensatz zu “würde gehen” für die Konjunktiv II fürs Verb “gehen”?
Rule of thumb: “ginge” nur für “gehen” im Sinne von “funktionieren” (to work out).
Und da kannst du trotzdem beides verwenden. Beides klingt richtig und idiomatisch.
Das ist nicht idiomatisch :)
Wow, danke sehr für den Tipp!
Nothing happens with the hint button.
I found now that it really doesn’t seem to work on some browsers. It works on Chrome for me, but I’m looking into the issue now. Sorry for that!!
it also works in Safari
fixed it cross browser this morning :)
Meine microphone ist kapput und so kann ich keine anworten sehen :(
Fixed now. You can set the difficulty to “0”, that should give you a pass then.
Where is this difficulty config? It doesnt seem to show up. I just dont have any microphone connected to the computer
Looks like if you don’t have audio at all, then the quizz won’t even load properly.
Could you try doing this on the phone, if you have a smart phone?
NotFoundError: Requested device not found
and hint button does nothing :(
What kind of device and browser are you using? That sounds like a JAvascript issue!
in a computer, i tried firefox and chromium
The recording is not working because the error below. If you want, you can send me an email to info@German-is-easy.com and I’ll try to help:
NotFoundError: Requested device not found
At the top of the screen
Hmm, are you sure your computer has a mic?
Could you try doing a recording here:
https://online-voice-recorder.com/de/
If it doesn’t work there, then it’s not an issue with the site, but probably with the computer or its settings.
Super exercise; I seem to score a bit variably on some words – would it be possible to hear/compare the audio of a ‘correct’ version immediately followed by one’s own attempt?
I don’t hear anything when pressing ‘hint’. Tried on Firefox, MS Edge & Chrome (on Windows)
…for any of the questions…
When you press hint, you should see a cloze version of the sentence pop up AND a little play icon (like a triangle pointing right). That’s where you find my audio.
…(but I do hear my version played back when pressing the review arrow)..
ditto to above–Chrome.
Okay, so I just realized that apparently the hint button only works for logged in users. That is NOT on purpose and I’m trying to find out what’s going wrong :/
Gut gemacht. Die Quiz, wie immer, ist aufgezeichnet
*ausgezeichnet ;)
Naja, die Antworten werden tatsächlich aufgezeichnet :)
Oh ja, stimmt eigentlich :D
The AI/KI is nice and polite, particularly when you speak clearly. It probably doesn’t care, but I imagine we are friends.
I think the solution up top roughly equals 20.
In the middle of the last line of the equation, you placed a heart next to an exclamation point. I believe this means that the heart has to be rational, natural and positive.
That’s a great message to relearn during the Christmas season!
The “!” is for what in German is called “Fakultät”. I think it might be “factorial” in English, but I’m too lazy to look it up :).
3! = 1 *2 * 3 = 6
But yeah… I forgot to add 3 :)
Got them all correct! Es macht viel Spaß – vielen dank.
Super, gut gemacht!!
It looks like I got full marks although it took me a couple of times for the mic to hear me in the “Das würde zu Lange dauern.” I had it right be I got “Not close enough.” I like the quizzes.
Great post, thanks.
It would be really nice to have an option to hear the correct pronunciation of each question, after getting it right.
Just click on “hint”. There’s a play button then, and you can hear me say it there.
Where is “hint” button?
Hello,
“give you feedback how well” (give you feedback on how well)
Wenn du dieses Typo nicht gemacht hättest, wäre das Artikle total Typo-free gewesen :)
As for the exercise, Iºll have to do it later on the iPad!
Bis Morgen
Could be fun if the Fazit was given at the end – ‘specially considering that the recorder doesn‘t work. Have no idea how I did, would like to try it again with. Fazit to check my skills.
What do you mean by “Fazit”? You can view all the questions at the end by clicking on “view questions”. Or do you mean, you’d like to see the solutions?
As for the recorder… you do have mic enabled for my website, right? With the little icon next to the address in the address bar of the browser…
By Fazit I mean: the correct answers. As I can’t play up your recording, nor see the hints, I thought a Fazit, the correct answers, at the end would be helpful to check if my guesses were correct.
Since I wrote the above, new developments have come to light: I can now hear your recording of the correct answer so I can check each one as I go along.
Yeah, the hint thing was a coding error but it took a while to even understand that it’s actually a bug and not a “this device” “that device” thing.
Das hat viel Spaß gemacht und ich fand es sehr hilfreich. Danke!
freut mich!!
Ich vergesse immer “wäre” zu nutzen. Mein Gehirn will immer “würde sein” sagen -_-
Das kann man auch verstehen, aber wäre klingt besser. Gewohnheitssache :)
Ich habe Nr. 3 dreimal falsch, under der Hint nicht arbeitet.
Was meinst du mit “der Hint arbeitet nicht”. Geht er nicht auf, oder hörst du das Audio nicht? Und ist das nur bei Frage 3 so, oder bei allen?
Keine Hint arbeitet auch für mich – bei allen Fragen. (I commented above, but then saw this)
What exactly happens when you click on hint?
nichts.
Nothing at all happens when I click on hint–can’t see the sentence nor a play button. I’m using Chrome.
It should work now. I fixed it! That was the WEIRDEST bug/mistake I ever made. really stupid and really hard to find :D
Das hat Spass gemacht und war hilfreich, Emanuel. Aber das Mikrofon hat wohl nicht alles gut aufgenommen. Bei der letzten Frage habe ich geantwortet: Ich käme mit, wenn ich Zeit hätte, aber ich habe max nur 74% bekommen. Hab’s dreimal gesprochen. Weisst du warum das so ist? Ansonsten war’s toll. Vielen Dank.
Ja, man sollte in dieser Übung “würde” verwenden: Ich würde mitkommen, wenn ich Zeit hätte.
When I answered that way I only got 72%!
How’d you score for the other questions?
Genau.
Die AI ist nicht “frei”, sondern ich sage ihr, was die richtige Lösung ist. In dem Fall ist es “Ich würde mitkommen…”.
Deine Version ist nicht falsch, aber für die Übung soll man “würde” verwenden, und das ist, was die AI bewertet. Deshalb ist dein Score für “käme” nicht so gut.
Verschiedene Antworten zu erlauben ist VIEL komplexer leider.