Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
Schotty and the gallery owner get into a discussion about the credibility and value of artworks and artists. We experience two opposing positions, but in the end they somehow seem to find common ground.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
In his discussion with the gallery owner, Schotty accepts that one's own opinion can be greatly influenced by that of other people. But he's still very skeptical about how the price of certain works of art are determined.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
Schotty pays for his currywurst with a very special five-euro bill, which turns out to be part of an outrageously expensive piece of art from the gallery...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
All's well that ends well? The missing fiver turns up again, Schotty receives a surprising gift, and, in the end, the only honest person comes off worst...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
On his new assignment, Schotty meets a young man who has been in a vegetative state for six years, and his caregiver, who explains why Schotty's services are required today.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
Schotty heeds the caregiver's advice and tells Matthis stories from his everyday life. Talking about one soccer game of the 2014 World Cup, he gets so excited that he falls...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
Schotty, who is claustrophobic at the best of times, wakes up to find himself inside Matthis's head. As he starts to panic, Matthis tries to help calm him down...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
Schotty talks to Matthis, who is glad to finally have the opportunity to ask all the questions that have been bothering him since he first found himself trapped inside his own head.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
How does Matthis feel about living in a coma? Can he see any upsides to it? An interesting conversation develops between the two men, but Schotty suddenly has to break it off because he has a rather mundane need.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
Matthis begins to despair when he notices that the feeling in his eyelid has suddenly gone. Schotty tries to distract him with a story.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German
With the help of Schotty's narration, the two men turn Matthis's mind into a less frightening and more joyful place. But Schotty slowly realizes that he's not going to be there much longer.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany
In this video, Anna and Teresa play a game called "Teekesselchen" ("Teapot"), in which you have to guess a word that has more than one meaning. Such words are called homonyms.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Austria, Germany Austrian High German
Was Sisi of Austria truly the romantic fairytale princess that everyone believed her to be? Join us as we delve behind the scenes with Katrin Unterreiner, co-founder of the Sisi Museum in Vienna's Hofburg Palace.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany
Could eating less help us look younger, and more importantly, could it help us live longer? A few studies seem to show that this could be the case, but there are no conclusive results yet.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany
Although it might help with fighting age-related diseases in the future, research into calorie restriction and aging is not so far along – or free of contradictions – that we should factor it into our dietary choices.
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