Furniture. Absolute Beginner #4

FurnitureShow Podcast Information Jacqueline asked me to produce
this beginner's show. She wanted to know what the furniture in a
room is called in German. So let's start our tour through a virtual
apartment. If you enter a typical German apartment, you open the
door, die Türe, die Türe, and get into a corridor. It is called
Flur. Here you can take your shoes off and put your coat on a
hanger. The place to store your shoes and coat is called Garderobe.
Garderobe. It is the cloakroom. But now off on our tour! We start
with the living-room. It is called Wohnzimmer in German.
Wohnzimmer. In the living-room there's usually a place to sit, for
example a couch. We also call it a couch in German. Or sofa. If you
sit on a sofa and want to drink something, you put it in front of
you on a small table. That table is called Couchtisch. Couch-Tisch.
In some living-rooms there's also a space for dining. But many
homes have a separate area that is called Esszimmer. Dining room.
Ess-Zimmer. The main piece of furniture here is a table. It is
called Tisch in German. Tisch. You sit at a table. And you sit on
chairs. Chairs are called Stühle. One chair is a Stuhl. More chairs
are Stühle. Stühle. We go through to the bedroom. It is called
Schlafzimmer in German. Schlafzimmer. The main thing in a bedroom
is the bed, of course. And that one is easy to remember, it is
called Bett in German. Bett. Beside the bed there is a small table
to put books on. It is called a Nachttisch. Nacht-Tisch. On it
there is a lamp. The Nachttischlampe. Nacht-Tisch-Lampe. You put
your clothes in a wardrobe, it is called Schrank in German.
Schrank. What more is there to tell you? If you want to store your
books somewhere, you put them on a shelf. A shelf is a Regal.
Regal. I think that's enough for today. Have fun learning German!