Selma meets with Nico to try out her new bike. She’s making great progress and is enjoying their time together. But she’s actually not supposed to be spending time with him at all…

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?

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!

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.

In this video, Cettina and Sabine cook a delicious Hessian potato soup together. First they present the ingredients, and then it's off to the kitchen, where we can watch the preparation. Enjoy!

"Kuckuck, Kuckuck, ruft's aus dem Wald" (Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Calls from the Woods) is a children's song written by the German poet August Heinrich Hoffmann, also known as Hoffmann von Fallersleben. The song is about the arrival of spring and the call of the cuckoo.

This satirical commercial for the made-up company TOYtschland takes a critical look at Germany's arms exports to nations embroiled in conflicts outside of the EU.

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.

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.”

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...

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]

Pepe wants to make peace with his aunt Yara, so he shows up at her shop with a bouquet of flowers. Unfortunately, it seems they don’t agree on anything — including whether it’s better to live in the city or in the countryside.

The Yabla player is easy to use and offers several helpful tools. In this video, you’ll learn how to skip to certain parts of the video that you’d like to rewatch, slow down the speed, and play subtitles on a loop in order to improve your comprehension.

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…

Dolphins sleep with one eye open? Crows are as intelligent as 8-year-old kids? Leopards freely roam the streets of Mumbai? In this video, Eylin tells us ten intriguing facts from the animal world.