Master transportation vocabulary with flashcards, audio pronunciation, and tiered difficulty levels designed to take you from beginner to advanced.
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Memory Trick: Think of Flug (flight) plus Zeug (stuff/thing). An airplane is literally a flight-thing!
A flying thing up in the sky.
Memory Trick: Combine Bahn (rail/track) and Hof (courtyard/yard). A train station is a yard full of train tracks.
The track-yard where trains rest.
Memory Trick: Sounds like coffer (a strongbox or trunk used for valuables). You pack your travel items into your Koffer.
Store your treasure in a coffer!
Memory Trick: Sounds like stay or stow. When you hit a Stau on the highway, you have to stay right where you are.
Stuck in a Stau, you stay put!
Memory Trick: Combine Zebra and Streifen (stripes). Black and white zebra stripes painted on the street form a crosswalk.
Walk across the zebra's stripes.
Memory Trick: Break it down: Wind + Schutz (shield/protection) + Scheibe (glass pane). A pane that shields you from wind!
Wind protection glass pane.
How transportation vocabulary varies across Spain and Latin America.
Germany: das Fahrrad
Austria: das Fahrrad / das Radl
Switzerland: das Velo
Germany: die Straßenbahn
Austria: die Straßenbahn / die Bim
Switzerland: das Tram
Germany: der Lkw / der Lastwagen
Austria: der Lkw / der Lastwagen
Switzerland: der Camion / der Lastwagen
Germany: das Motorrad
Austria: das Motorrad
Switzerland: der Töff
Germany: der Zebrastreifen
Austria: der Schutzweg / der Zebrastreifen
Switzerland: der Fussgängerstreifen
Germany: die Fahrkarte / das Ticket
Austria: die Fahrkarte / der Fahrschein
Switzerland: das Billet
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