Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
During a carriage ride, Jacques and Inge discuss what’s changed in the city over the past decades. They seem to be getting along quite well. But then Jacques gets an alert on his phone — who’s been calling him, and what is he hiding?
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
Inge and Jacques go for a walk and have a chat. What was it like to socialize in the era before cell phones? Inge expresses a desire to go back in time. And Jacques has a surprise for her!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
Nico wants to help Selma's family with the move, but Selma doesn't want him to – and she comes up with a lot of reasons why he shouldn't.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
Using several examples, Sabine and Jan explain the weak verb "erklären" ("to explain") in the following verb tenses: present, simple past, present perfect, and conditional. The present perfect form of the verb is conjugated with the auxiliary verb "haben" ("to have") and in German often used similarly to the simple past, or preterite tense.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
Selma and her father are in the middle of loading a moving truck when Nico comes around the corner, surprising her. When he asks why she canceled their date, she explains that her parents don’t want her meeting up with “strangers.”
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
Yara is sick of the noise and dirt in the city, and flirts with the idea of moving to the country. She and her nephew Pepe look at apartments together online. But Pepe has come to ask her for a favor...
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
What happened to the famous sausage stand where Schenk and Ballauf, the Cologne commissioners from the long-running German TV police procedural "Tatort" ("Crime Scene"), met to discuss cases? Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Jacob recites two poems by Mascha Kaléko: “Interview mit mir selbst” and “Im Exil.” The German-Jewish poet had to flee to America in 1938, and her works were banned in Germany after the Nazis labeled them “harmful and undesirable.”
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
At the restaurant, Nico toasts to friendship with Inge, Tarek, and Max — but there’s someone else he can’t get out of his head…
Difficulty: Newbie
Germany High German
Tarek wants to learn more about Jacques. He also tries to figure out why Inge is so hesitant about the possibility of a new partnership.
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