Fit am Telefon
Today, we discussed about how to talk on phone. We learnt about different words and phrases that could be useful when having a telephone conversation in German. Towards the end of the lecture, we worked out a dialog between a girl looking for an apartment and an office worker at Mitwohnzentrale. If you remember, we have already covered talking to a person over the phone while searching for an apartment in this post, but the one presented here is far more detailed, and uses much more complicated grammatical constructs.
Vocabulary - Fit am Telefon
- das Hintergrundgeräusch: background noise
- das Missverständnis: misunderstanding
- eine Nachricht hinterlassen: leave a message
- etw. nebenbei machen: to do something at the same time
- die Rahmenbedingung: parameter, determining factor
- die Durchwahl: extension number
- sich verbinden lassen: to be connected
- falsch verbunden sein: to be connected wrongly
- einleiten: to initiate
- vergewissern: to affirm, sich etw (Gen.) vergewissern = to assure oneself of something
- die Rückversicherung: reassurance
- vermeiden: to avoid, to prevent (vermeidet, vermied, hat vermieden)
- folgendermaßen: in the following way, syn. folgenderweise
- folgenderweise: in the following way, syn. folgendermaßen
Useful Phrases
Here are some phrases that you will find useful when talking over the phone. They are grouped by situations in which they are most relevant.
