German

Open the first programme of your own with the producer counting you in, with the radio talk Sie sind auf Sendung and bleiben Sie dran.

Take the first caller of the programme, who wants to know where you come from, with the fillers also and naja and the softener mal.

Let Lea talk you into the cinema after the show, with the particles doch, mal, halt and eben that give German its tone.

Take a nineteen-year-old caller who rates the show with the slang of his age, krass, geil, Bock haben and chillen, and learn to understand it.

Stop an old Berliner on a square with your microphone and hear the city's own German, icke, dit, wat and keene Ahnung, explained so you understand it.

Hear from the producer that you said der Radio on air, and learn to own a slip and laugh about it, with das haben Sie falsch gesagt and lachen Sie.

Hear Nina's honest verdict on the show, that you were good but too fast, and take her advice, nimm dir Zeit, die Pause ist auch Radio.

Hear Lukas tell the shortest German joke, learn how a joke is built with der Witz and die Pointe, and try one of your own.

Ask Lea why nobody laughed at your joke and hear about dry humour, with doch, wir lachen schon, aber spaeter.

Spend a rainy day off with Nina and learn to hear and make irony, with das ist ja toll, das war ironisch and klasse.

Hear Frau Weber praise the show the German way, with nicht schlecht, geht so and kann man nicht meckern, and learn that less is more.

Take a listener's correction on air, thank her with danke fuer den Hinweis and promise to speak more slowly.

Hear the producer cancel a meeting in Denglisch, das Meeting ist gecancelt, and learn to use the English words German has borrowed.

Shout Alaaf with Jan in Cologne, ask what a Buettenredner is and hear that the Rhineland laughs above all at itself.

Order a Koelsch with Jan, hear the dialect's most famous sentence, et kuett wie et kuett, and ask what it means in standard German.

Meet the Berliner Schnauze at a tram stop, cheeky but warm, hear kiek ma and det is Berlin, and say that you like it.

Swear the mild German way when the computer dies before the show, Mist, verdammt, so ein Quatsch, and learn which word stays off the air.

Take a nickname from Nina with a smile, order ein Kaeffchen and make any German word small and fond with the ending -chen.

Read a German text message from Lukas, kp, vllt and a thumb, and answer with alles klar, bis spaeter.

Invite Frau Weber onto the show and hear every German no, nee, lieber nicht, eher nicht, auf keinen Fall, and take it without offence.

Take a caller who is worked up about the programme and calm him down with regen Sie sich nicht auf and bleiben wir sachlich.

Take a call from Vienna and hear the words Austria uses for a bag, a tomato and an apricot, with bei uns heisst das.

Take a call from Zurich, hear that the Swiss speak one German and write another, and fail at Chuchichaeschtli like every German.

Take the producer's note after the show, fewer foreign words and more Max, and sum it up in your own words.

Hear Nina's verdict on the programme and learn that nicht uebel, not bad, is high praise in German.

Buy your rolls at Frau Lehmann's and make the small talk Germans make, with na, wie immer and the weather.

Hear an old Berliner tell Max the blunt truth about his accent, man hoert es noch, and then call it charming.

Hear from the producer that one sentence from last night is all over the internet, and learn the difference between satt and voll.

Greet the hundredth caller of the programme and hear that she is learning German because of Max, with wegen Ihnen.

Hear from the programme director that Wie bitte?