German
A permanent job, a live report from a flood on the Elbe, and a race to raise the money so that the tenants can buy their own house. Learn to negotiate, persuade, report live and run a meeting.
Audio instruction: English
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Advanced Level 2 - Part 1
Lessons 1 to 10Hear the editor in chief offer Max a permanent contract, from now on and open-ended, with unbefristet.
Tell Frau Weber about the permanent job and hear what it means for the house, with fest angestellt.
Work out with Lukas what the house costs and what each flat must bring, with Prozent and the big numbers of money.
Ask a bank adviser to finance the tenants' cooperative and hear her condition, with unter der Bedingung, dass.
Hear what documents and collateral the bank would need and by when, with wir braeuchten, the Konjunktiv of a polite request.
Hear a city councillor promise the district's support and a programme for cooperatives, with einen Antrag stellen.
Run the tenants' money meeting point by point with Herr Krause and Frau Yilmaz, with ich schlage vor.
Win over the tenant from the front house who wants no part of the cooperative, with stellen Sie sich vor.
Hear the investor's representative offer to sell the house, at his price and on his terms, with wir waeren bereit.
Call the representative back with the tenants' counter-offer and its condition, with allerdings nur, wenn.
Advanced Level 2 - Part 2
Lessons 11 to 20Hear the editor in chief send Max to the Elbe the same night, and take the order in the present German uses for decided plans.
Hear Max meet the flood operations chief on the dyke at one in the morning, ask for the water level and the situation, and learn how a reporter names a source.
Hear Nina hand over from the studio and Max give his first live report from the dyke, from ich stehe hier to the handover back to Berlin.
Hear Max interview a volunteer on the sandbag line, since when she has been there and who is helping, and take her answers with jeder hilft.
Hear the operations chief give Max the evacuation notice for the radio, with the passive of an announcement, and ask by when and about those who cannot leave.
Hear Nina call Max before the morning broadcast after a night without sleep, and give the update in the perfect, from der Pegel ist gestiegen to wir bleiben dran.
Hear the volunteer tell Max how a family was taken off a roof in the night, and take the passive of the past, wurden gerettet, with how and by whom.
Hear the operations chief tell Max on the third morning that the dyke is holding, for now, and learn the careful German of good news without an all-clear.
Hear the editor in chief welcome Max back from the Elbe, praise his work, and order him to rest, with the reflexive after Sie.
Hear the lawyer tell Max that the deadline for buying the house runs out in three weeks, and what happens otherwise, with the separable verb of deadlines.
Advanced Level 2 - Part 3
Lessons 21 to 30Hear Lukas add up the house money at the kitchen table and say how much is still missing, with es fehlen noch.
Hear Oma call with news from the cousins and take a family gift for the house, with the du command nimm es.
Hear Lea propose a campaign among the listeners and ask whether a reporter may do that, with darf ich das.
Hear the editor in chief draw the line between reporting and collecting money, with Sie duerfen, aber nicht.
Hear Lea and Nina follow the campaign on the screen and say how fast the money is coming in, with in drei Tagen.
Hear the bank adviser approve the loan, ask the terms and sign, with the state of things said by ist bewilligt.
Hear the investor's representative accept the tenants' offer under one condition and date the contract, with zum ersten Januar.
Hear Frau Weber sign at the notary's with a shaking hand and learn whose the house is now, with das Haus gehoert uns.
Hear the house celebrate between the bins and raise a glass to it, to each other and to the tenants, with auf das Haus.
Hear Max tell Oma what he will do with the letters of 1883, a documentary about the house, with ich werde.