How Berliners Spend Their Evenings | Easy German 594

Janusz, are you the type of person who likes to party in the evening or go to the theatre? Or are you more of a couch potato? I'm not a couch potato at all, but otherwise both. I like to go to the Pratergarten with pleasure, but today, for example, I stay at home and enjoy my rest. Let's see what the other Berliners say. How do people spend their evening here? Go! Go! How do you normally spend your evenings? I usually spend my evenings when I come back from work, like most people. I'm actually pretty quiet. I'm also a musician at my job and play the guitar or the piano. Great. And do you sing? Yes, but that should be better. It doesn't matter, as long as you sing. And do you write your own lyrics? Yes, I do. My evening? When I'm in a good mood, I go to the gym and do some exercise, so that everything stays in place. Then I go home and have dinner with my husband. We tell each other our day. And usually I either read a book or watch a series. And sometimes we also go to the theatre or the cinema. Right now I'm going to school, then I come home, take a shower, think about what I want to eat, then I cook something, and then I watch. Sometimes I train, or I just have a relaxing evening and watch a movie. It depends. I work in shifts. Sometimes I have late shift, sometimes I have night shift, sometimes early shift, where I go to bed earlier. But when I have the evening off, I like to lie on the couch. We have a Nintendo Switch, where my partner and I often play games, or watch movies and series. Exercise, eat, go to bed early, get up early. What kind of exercise? Bodyweight and with weights. At home. I don't go to the gym at home. Our evening? I'm not the party mouse. Dinner, a good series and then go to bed. I don't really like going to parties. I'm more relaxed in bars or at home with friends. But the main thing is that we eat together and go out. And what do you do? Do you play board games? I hate board games. Me too, exactly. But I like cards. In fact, I've become friends with cards since I started studying. Or you just talk. Talking is the best. Just communicate. I come home and usually do a little exercise. Then I eat something. And then after eating, you're a little flat. And then you don't really feel like doing anything. And then I realize that I could do a lot more with my evenings. How do you spend your evenings? With my little dog on the sofa. And I have a sauna blanket at home. Do you really sweat under the sauna blanket? Yes, but it takes about 40 minutes. It takes longer than a normal sauna. But it goes deeper into the muscles. It's good for detoxing. And does the dog come along? He lies next to my face and gives me company. Netflix, YouTube, social networks. Very simple. And do you cook in the evening? Yes, very much. I always try to cook something new. That's great. Tell me. I like to cook something Asian. For example, Japanese food, Korean food. My evenings? I usually cook something to eat when I get home. And then I put on something comfortable. And then I probably sit on the sofa, watch a movie or a series. I talk on the phone with a friend. I just sit comfortably at home. How do you usually spend your evenings? It depends. I work for an organization. And we are often together in the office after work. We drink a beer and play table tennis. We play a lot. That's great. And when you get home, what do you usually do in your apartment? First I take a shower. I'm out on the street all day. I talk to people. And I'm usually totally exhausted. First I take a shower. And then I like to watch a series or read a book. My evenings? I eat breakfast. I brush my teeth. I change clothes. I play tennis. I read a book. I walk the dogs. In the evening, very late, when everyone is asleep. When I've slept for the first time and then got up again. I fall asleep with the children. And I listen to a book. A small one. But actually I always watch a book. When I want to make myself really comfortable in the evening, I sit on the sofa, cuddle in a blanket and watch YouTube. Like you are doing right now. Then I watch my favorite show, for example, Last Week Tonight. And I realize that it's not available in Germany. For some reason this show is available in Polish YouTube, but not in Germany. Exactly, Janusz. But that's not a problem for me. I just use our partner NordVPN. This way I connect with Poland and I can surf as if I were in Poland and watch my favorite show. If you also want to do that, for example, watch German shows that are not available in your country, try NordVPN. Nordvpn.com is our link and with it you also get an exclusive discount and four free months. Try it out now. How many times a week do you go out to party or to the cinema? Not as often as I'd like to, unfortunately. Lately I haven't had that much free time and I have to change that. Maybe three times a week. That's a lot. Maximum three times a week. And what happens then? Do you go to the cinema or club? No club. Cinema, café, park. Just outside. Mostly only on weekends. And what do you do then? Go out to eat or to a bar. And what about clubbing? I've never been to a club here in Berlin, but sometimes in Switzerland. I'd like to say two or three times, but I think it's more like once. And in the week or on the weekend? Both. And more cinema or more clubbing? Cinema. Definitely cinema. Or go out to eat. How often do you go out per week? Maybe to the cinema, maybe to the club? Almost every day. Then there's still a bit of energy left. And what do you do most of the time? When I go out? I go to bars a lot with my friends. Often after work I go to a bar or I meet up with friends. I really like kicker bars in Friedrichshain. And what about clubbing? I rarely meet people who say, I just go to the club and dance there. I do sometimes. It doesn't happen that often lately, but there was a time when I went to a lot of parties. And a lot alone. Because I think it's always funny when you get to know new people. Simply because you get into situations where you are forced to get to know new people. Two to three times if it goes well. And sometimes a week is left. It's all a bit of a lie. But we try two or three times a week. And what do you do? How do you spend this evening? We like to go bouldering, or eat with friends. We also have a music studio, where we are sometimes with friends. What does music studio mean? Do you make music? I record it myself and my friend also produces. Ah, that's great. Yes, maybe twice a week or so. At least? Yes, but I like to be at home. I'm a, how do you say? Couch potato. Yes, in German. I'm looking for the German word. The Germans say that too. Me too. How did you spend your weekend seven years ago when you were still a schoolchild? I smoked secretly there. I went for a walk in the evening. I lived in Serbia and there was a park. I sneaked out in the evening and walked through the park. I met a lot of friends. I still lived in a small town. We cycled a lot. We sat somewhere on the market square and drank a beer. We just chatted. I played video games. I played a lot. I watched a lot of YouTube. Now I read more. Back then I didn't read at all. It was just consuming, consuming, consuming. Eating, eating, eating, consuming. What can I watch? What can I play? My parents never had a cell phone ban. That means eating dinner with my parents in the evening. Then skyping with a friend. And as long as possible watching a series or YouTube videos What were the evenings like back then? Now carefully. Yes, very carefully. When you had more ideas. Exactly, more energy. To be honest, not much different. I'm more of a homebody. If I may say so. My husband sometimes regrets that. I've never been a big club goer. That's why I didn't do that. Maybe I met a little more with friends back then. I used to live in Cologne. The roads are shorter there. In Berlin it's sometimes a little difficult because you have to take long routes. Stummenhocker is a very nice word. For us it's the other way around. I'm the Stummenhocker and my wife wants to travel. That's her thing. Try to remember and describe the most beautiful evening you've spent lately. Maybe it was a meeting with your friends. Two weeks ago I had my four-year-old with my boyfriend. Then we went to eat in Berlin. I liked it very much. It was a fancy dinner. One of the most beautiful evenings was in the afternoon. My best friend told me that she was pregnant. I'm just coming from that. We went to dinner together. I was one of the first who knew that. I'd say it was the karaoke with my best friend. He moved to Australia and we went to karaoke at least once a week with my group of friends. He sang well, didn't he? Not at all, but it made it better. We all sing horribly, but it was a lot of fun no matter how it sounds. Maybe Christmas evening is the best time to gather all the family in our house. I have three children. All three come to me and all the children come to my husband. We have this German-Ukrainian evening with Christmas traditions for both countries. Try to remember one of the most beautiful evenings you've spent. Tell us about it. At the campfire with friends. It's a transition for young people to a young man. There are party rounds and when you sit there you don't know them but they all come to the place and tell their stories. They introduce themselves and it's always nice. All the evenings at the campfire For me there wasn't one moment but I go to Finland every year. My mother is from Finland and we have a summer house there. A lot of mosquitos? Yes, a lot of mosquitos. But you don't think about them. It's more like these long days. In the summer in the north you have these long days and it's ten, eleven o'clock and the sun still goes down. And you just see the sun shining on the lake. You just breathe. That's life. I don't need more. Now we want to know how you like to spend your evenings. Write us a comment and keep learning German with Easy German by clicking on the next video. For example? Janusz, you have already made over a thousand videos. And how many have you seen? If this is your first video then click on the next one. It will be shown here. Bye! Did we really make over a thousand videos? Yes, of course. Bye!