here is a new course i have made resonantly i will be adding word to it here and there! http://www.memrise.com/course/1084130/audio-german-vocabulary/
Iâm guessing youâre not a native English speaker?
I was a bit surprised to see Beleuchtung/lighting listed next to Donner/thunder - thunder is more often associated with lightNING (a rather different word, normally translated as Blitz or Blitzen). But to be honest thereâs already a bunch of courses that cover all that vocab and more.
And âresonantlyâ is a somewhat odd way to spell ârecentlyââŠauto-correct?
Um i am a native English speaker, I was born in the USA. and i am sorry i missed a word and spelled it wrong, BUT Donner does mean lightning , And Beleuchtung does mean Thunder,Ja there are a lot of courses that cover theses words but i wanted a course that was divided topically.Not lust a bunch of random word but together based on what they were. I hope to add more word and topics too.
thank you for commenting
micah
wierder Danke schön ! Und ja ich weiss ein bisschen deutsch 
Well ok Iâm confident enough about my German to say that Donner definitely does not mean lightning (it means thunder), and Beleuchtung doesnât mean either, it means lighting, as in electric lights, as in âwhat sort of lighting do you have in your living roomâ. Blitz or Blitzen is the word for lightning, which usually strikes before you hear the thunderâŠ
More than welcome to be corrected on any of these points.
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Hallo dylan.nicholson.548,
youâre right!
âDonnerâ is the sound, the thunder. And lightning is âder Blitzâ. âBeleuchtungâ is not thunder. Lightning is correctly explained.
Look here:
explanation/proof
the German dictionary duden.de
http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Blitz
http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Donner
http://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/Beleuchtung
and now
schönes Wochenende
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Sorry, but you are most definitely wrong about âDonnerâ and âBeleuchtungâ, as the other posters have pointed out.
You know the reindeers??? âDonner and Blitzenâ - i.e. âThunder and Lightningâ - from the famous Christmas song??? Surely you have heard that combo before?
And then there is the German âDonnerstagâ - âday of thunderâ - which corresponds to the English âThursdayâ - the day of Thor, the god of thunder.
I do not know where you are getting your information from, but you really need to consider whether your sources are good.
dylan already explained âBeleuchtungâ very accurately. It would be the name of a department in a store or in an online store where you would buy lights for your home.
That said, I think the idea of creating a course by topic is a really good idea! But use better sources 
for example, www.google.de
I assume âdas Blitzenâ is technically just the nominalised verb âblitzenâ (the striking of lightning), whereas âder Blitzâ refers to the actual phenomenon, or even a bolt (or bolts collectively) of lightning. âdie Blitzeâ Iâd think could only mean âlightning boltsâ?
Curiously while English has no native verb that means âfor lightning to strikeâ, itâs managed to come up with two separate meanings for âblitzâ (1: blend in a food processor, 2: to perform an intense attack or target a specific message at saturation levels aimed a wide audience) neither of which appear to have obvious German equivalentsâŠ
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English is curiously clumsy about lightning, I agree!
In German, you just say, âEs hat geblitzt!â to say that you saw some lightning flashes.
Oh, and the other use of âblitzenâ is if you get caught by a speed camera; âder Blitzâ can also refer to the flash on a camera. So if you say, âich wurde geblitztâ, that means you were photographed by a speed camera. The cameras themselves are known as âBlitzerâ. If you put in the word âBlitzerâ on google.de, you will get lots of fun stuff!
Blitzer is the speed cameraâŠ
Wait, they actually have speed cameras in Germany now? I spent 3 weeks driving around Germany some years ago at speeds that would have got my license taken away in Australia (where we literally have speed cameras every ~10km along major freeways, and even just 5km/h over the posted speed limit can get you a fine) and never saw so much as a flashâŠ
Thatâs exactly what I said, too
LOL! There are speed cameras on the stretches of road where there are speed limits, yes. It is only on the âAutobahnâ that you will find stretches where there are no speed limits, but even there, you might find that there are some for particular areas for various reasons.
You can still bomb along like a lunatic on the âAutobahnâ most of the time, though. I hate it 
Scares the pants off me!
Yes!
Ich wurde schon oft geblitzt :cryđ
Sorry to hear it!
Okay , thank you all for all the comments ! Really !
Okay it is my fault, there i said it , So you are right Beleuchtung does not mean what i always thought and said ( i must have sounded pretty funny when i said it to other people in conversation !) And Donner means thunder I wrote the words in the wrong place( i meant to say Donner means thunder and Beleuchtung means lightning , even though know i know Beleuchtung is the wrong word to use ) I know Blitz meant lightning but i was trying to use words that were not as common on all the other courses , And i always used Beleuchtung , O well know i know.
again thank you all soooooo much, i will fix it right know !
Danke schon !
micah
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