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🇩🇪 German · Beginner Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

Tickets, Please

Max takes the underground on his own, to the TV tower, and finds out that buying the ticket isn't the hard part. Say you're going by underground, understand a ticket inspector and what you have to do with a ticket, say you're new in Berlin and that you're not from here, ask where the underground is and where to change, and say me neither.

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THE STORY

It's eleven o'clock on Friday, and Max takes the underground on his own, to the TV tower at Alexanderplatz. Buying the ticket from the machine is easy. Then, between two stations, two men in ordinary clothes stand up. Under the TV tower a woman asks him the way, and in the evening, on the bench outside Herr Demir's shop, Lukas hears the whole story. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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Die U-Bahn.dee OO-bahnthe underground
Ich fahre mit der U-Bahn.ihh FAH-ruh mit day-ah OO-bahnI'm going by underground.
Der Fahrschein.day-ah FAH-shinethe ticket
Die Fahrscheine, bitte!dee FAH-shy-nuh BIT-tuhTickets, please!
Nicht entwertet.nihht ent-VAY-ah-tetnot stamped
Ihr Fahrschein ist nicht entwertet.ee-ah FAH-shine ist nihht ent-VAY-ah-tetYour ticket isn't stamped. Politely.
Den Fahrschein entwerten.dayn FAH-shine ent-VAY-ah-tenstamp the ticket
Sie müssen den Fahrschein entwerten.zee MEW-sen dayn FAH-shine ent-VAY-ah-tenYou have to stamp the ticket. Politely.
Ich bin neu in Berlin.ihh bin noy in bair-LEENI'm new in Berlin.
Das sagen alle.dahs ZAH-gen AHL-luhThat's what everyone says.

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