German

Hear Oma hold up the box of old letters over video and say she can't read them, with sie for the letters.

Hear a historian open the letters, read their first words and explain them, with hochverehrte Eltern.

Hear the historian read the first letter from eighteen eighty-three, the safe arrival and the six weeks at sea, with the written past dauerte.

Hear Max pitch his documentary about the German emigrants to the editor in chief, from the idea to the length, with wie lang soll der Film werden.

Hear the editor in chief take Max's concept apart in three questions and Max answer each, with die Umsetzung, die Finanzierung, der Zeitplan.

Hear the sound editor explain how the film will be built, the original sound first and Max's voice between the letters, with der Schnitt and der O-Ton.

Hear Max record Oma reading the first letter at her kitchen table, slower, once more, closer to the microphone, with the comparative in -er.

Hear the archivist in Freiburg call with further documents, a list of the emigrants of the year, with the genitive des Jahres.

Hear the village mayor call from the Black Forest with a memorial plaque and an invitation, with das Dorf erinnert sich an.

Hear the mayor show Max where the house stood and the fountain that is still there, with the relative clauses in dem and an dem.

Interview the innkeeper, a distant cousin in the Black Forest village, and hear what the story means to him, with Ihnen after bedeuten.

Hear the historian read the letter about the storm at sea and follow it in the simple past, the tense of letters and books.

Hear Oma tell what her father told her about the first year in Milwaukee, and say how long people worked, with the time said plainly.

Show Lea the first draft of the narration and take her rules, with the orders to a friend of verbs that change their vowel.

Sit with the sound editor over the first scene and take his rule, less music and let the letter breathe, with lass and a verb at the end.

Hear the historian read the hardest letter in the box, slowly and with care, and follow a relative clause with its verb at the end.

Decide with Lea that the hardest letter stays out of the film, and say who you called and who agreed, with the perfect of two-part verbs.

Hear the last letter in the box, from nineteen oh two, and its farewell to the family at home, with the order to several people.

Show the editor in chief the first cut, hear that it is four minutes too long and settle where to cut, with um for by how much.

Call Oma after she has watched the film and hear what it meant to her, with the would-have form for what her father would have liked to see.

Hear Nina and Max in the studio corridor half an hour before his documentary goes out, with the present tense for what is on tonight's schedule.

Hear Lea read Max the messages that came in overnight, among them a woman from Hamburg whose family also left, with deren for whose.

Hear the editor in chief tell Max that his documentary is nominated for a prize in Hamburg, with sein and the participle for a state, Sie sind nominiert.

Hear Max rehearse his acceptance speech in Frau Weber's kitchen, from meine Damen und Herren to lassen Sie mich schliessen.

Hear the jury chair in Hamburg announce the prize and call Max to the stage, with der Preis geht an and fuer seine Dokumentation.

Hear Max's whole acceptance speech in Hamburg, eight lines from meine Damen und Herren to Oma, with the dative after danken and geben.

Hear the programme director offer Max a programme of his own about the German language, with the adjective used as a noun, Sie sind der Richtige.

Hear Max talk the offer over with Nina on the train back to Berlin, with the would form of sein, du waerst gut, es waere meine Sendung.

Hear the village mayor from the Black Forest call Max after the ceremony, with the perfect of a separable verb, wir haben zugeschaut.

Hear Max call the programme director and say yes to a programme of his own, on one condition, with dass and the verb at the end.