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Advanced Level 2

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 10

Advanced Level 2 - Part 2

Lessons 11 to 20
11
The Flood Begins

Hear the editor in chief send Max to the Elbe the same night, and take the order in the present German uses for decided plans.

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12
Arriving at the Dyke

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.

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13
The First Live Report

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.

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14
The Volunteers

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.

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15
The Evacuation

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.

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16
A Night Without Sleep

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.

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17
A Family on the Roof

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.

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18
The Dyke Holds

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.

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19
Back in Berlin

Hear the editor in chief welcome Max back from the Elbe, praise his work, and order him to rest, with the reflexive after Sie.

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20
The Deadline

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.

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Advanced Level 2 - Part 3

Lessons 21 to 30
21
The Money Is Short

Hear Lukas add up the house money at the kitchen table and say how much is still missing, with es fehlen noch.

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22
Oma's Call

Hear Oma call with news from the cousins and take a family gift for the house, with the du command nimm es.

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23
A Crowdfunding Idea

Hear Lea propose a campaign among the listeners and ask whether a reporter may do that, with darf ich das.

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24
The Editor's Rule

Hear the editor in chief draw the line between reporting and collecting money, with Sie duerfen, aber nicht.

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25
The Campaign

Hear Lea and Nina follow the campaign on the screen and say how fast the money is coming in, with in drei Tagen.

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26
The Bank Says Yes

Hear the bank adviser approve the loan, ask the terms and sign, with the state of things said by ist bewilligt.

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27
The Last Negotiation

Hear the investor's representative accept the tenants' offer under one condition and date the contract, with zum ersten Januar.

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28
The Signing

Hear Frau Weber sign at the notary's with a shaking hand and learn whose the house is now, with das Haus gehoert uns.

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29
The Party in the Courtyard

Hear the house celebrate between the bins and raise a glass to it, to each other and to the tenants, with auf das Haus.

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30
What Max Will Do With the Letters

Hear Max tell Oma what he will do with the letters of 1883, a documentary about the house, with ich werde.

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