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🇩🇪 German · Beginner Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

Sunday

It's Sunday in Berlin, and almost everything is shut. Max goes out for milk, disturbs the man across the courtyard, haggles for a radio at the flea market, and has coffee and cake at Frau Weber's kitchen table. Say it's Sunday and everything's shut, understand what you mustn't do on a Sunday, ask how much something is and haggle, offer a piece of cake and say yes please, with cream, say it was delicious, and say someone isn't angry.

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THE STORY

It's nine o'clock on Sunday morning, and there's no milk for Max's coffee. But in Berlin, on a Sunday, almost everything is shut. At ten, a crash of bottles in the courtyard brings an old man to his window. At eleven, Lukas takes Max to the flea market, where a broken radio has a price, and at three there's coffee and cake at Frau Weber's kitchen table, with milk from a neighbour Max didn't expect. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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Der Supermarkt.day-ah ZOO-pah-marktthe supermarket
Der Supermarkt ist zu.day-ah ZOO-pah-markt ist tsooThe supermarket's shut.
Heute ist Sonntag.HOY-tuh ist ZON-tahkIt's Sunday today.
Alles ist zu.AH-les ist tsooEverything's shut.
Man darf das nicht.mahn dahrf dahs nihhtyou're not allowed to do that
Am Sonntag darf man das nicht!ahm ZON-tahk dahrf mahn dahs nihhtYou're not allowed to do that on Sundays!
Das Radio.dahs RAH-dee-ohthe radio
Was kostet das Radio?vahs KOS-tet dahs RAH-dee-ohHow much is the radio?
Fünfzehn Euro.FEWNF-tsayn OY-rohFifteen euros.
Es ist kaputt.es ist kah-POOTit's broken

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