Today's Easy German Words - Arriving Somewhere Whilst Travelling

Problems
1 How do you fill the time whilst waiting at a station?

2 You are too jet lagged to do anything.

Answers
Learn a language on Duolingo. At least you will have made some progress with your day and your life.

What is the word progress in German?
Fortschritt
How do you remember it? Go forth or forwards. FORT - progress go forth
Fortschritt - the letter r appears twice in both words pRogRess foRtschRitt
progress ends with double ss progreSS and fortschritt ands with double tt fortschriTT
Germans take the s sound from the end of progress and put it in the middle
progreSS fortSCHritt
now we can recognise the German word
fortschritt is progress
all we have to do is say it three times until we can create it from the English
fortschritt - progress
fortschritt - progress
fortschritt - progress
progress - fortschritt
progress - fortschritt
progress - fortschritt

As I was saying, we are making progress, fortschritt.

That was a diversion, an interesting diversion, from easy words of the day which I picked out from a set on Duolingo.

(Italian is even easier. The Italian for Diversion is d i v e r s i o n e. The Italian for progress is progresso.)

Today's Easy German words:
German - English
die Firma - the firm or company
Garantie - guarantee
Industrie - industry
jeder - everybody (notice the D in the middle j e D e r everyboDy and the er evERybody jedER
Logistik - logistics
Leiferung - delivery (the middle the word is L (e) i f - L I V and the German g looks like a English y
m e h r - more (sounds similar; letters M and R are in more words. Look again. E is in both words. M E h R - M o R E; it sounds like a mare or horse but no letter a, letters H and E as in the english word H o R s E.)
Produktion - production
Service - service
Versicherung - insurance (what looks after you when you are sick - very good sickness insurance)

English - German
delivery - Leiferung (just remove the de from delivery and start with L; add liv life deliver life L.FER..g
firm or company - die Firma
industry - Industrie
more - m e h r
guarantee - Garantie (remember that German nouns have a capital letter)
production - Produktion
service - Service
insurance - Versicherung (such s u C H a good idea - a very good idea VER Sich ER ung )

Author
Angela Lansbury, teacher of English and other languages.