German

Take the tour plan from the producer, ten cities in ten weeks with a different dialect everywhere, and set off for a farm in Bavaria.

Arrive at a Bavarian farm, be greeted with Gruess Gott and a Semmel, and hear the farmer's words a bisserl and mia san mia explained.

Ask the farmer how long the farm has been in his family and hear its story, told in the simple past from great-grandfather to son.

Be woken at five on the farm, hear the proverb Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund, and ask what it means.

Buy breakfast in a Stuttgart bakery, hear the roll called Weck and the pretzel Bretzel, and learn the Swabian creed, schaffe, schaffe, Haeusle baue.

Read the Kehrwoche sign in a Swabian stairwell, hear that Swabians are sparsam but not geizig, and take net schlecht as praise.

Try to shape a Bretzel in the Swabian bakery, hear the proverb Uebung macht den Meister, and ask how long the baker practised.

Report from Frankfurt to the producer and give her a portrait in three sentences, eine Frau, die and ein Mann, der.

Meet Jan on the banks of the Rhine, ask what the roll is called there, and count four words for one Broetchen across Germany.

Ask Jan what Cologne was like after the war and hear his grandmother's story, the city in ruins, the cathedral standing, and the rebuilding.

Arrive in Leipzig with Nina's father, hear the Saxon nu and learn that a roll is a Semmel here, not a Schrippe.

Stand with a Saxon guide in front of the Frauenkirche in Dresden and hear that it was destroyed and rebuilt, with wurde.

Ask the Saxon guide about his grandfather and hear, in the Praeteritum, what a boy of twelve saw in Dresden in February 1945.

Hear from Nina's mother what the Ore Mountains are known for, say what a thing is made of with aus Holz and learn the miners' greeting Glueck auf.

Ask the old Berliner what a Schrippe is, hear that bread is bread whatever the region calls it, and keep a Berliner apart from a Pfannkuchen.

Buy a fish roll at the Hamburg fish market, hear that moin works at any hour and name the times of day with morgens, mittags, abends.

Ask the fisherwoman how long she has done this and hear her husband's forty years at sea, told with fuhr and nahm.

Ask the fisherwoman whether she speaks Platt, hear that Low German is a language of its own and understand wat mutt, dat mutt.

Hear the coast's proverb on the dyke, wer nicht will deichen, muss weichen, and ask what a saying means.

Take a call from the producer who finds too much dialect in the show, say where the listeners are with im Norden, im Sueden and promise to explain every word.

Explain a dialect word for the listeners, with das Wort bedeutet, so sagt man dort and im Hochdeutschen sagt man.

Eat Himmel un Aed in Jan's kitchen in Cologne, ask what is in it and hear that Koelsch says dat for das.

Open the listeners' letters with Lea, from Flensburg and from Passau, and say what a roll is called with bei uns sagt man.

Pick a proverb a day for the show with Nina: Aller Anfang ist schwer, Ohne Fleiss kein Preis and Ende gut, alles gut.

Hear from Oma on the phone which words Milwaukee's Germans kept, with wir sagten, das ist altes Deutsch and man sagt heute.

Reach Sylt, the tour's last stop, and walk out on the Wattenmeer with the fisherwoman, with bei Ebbe and bei Flut.

Look back on the tour with the producer: ten cities in ten weeks, a hundred words for a bread roll and one language.

Come home to Frau Weber, who heard every episode, and take her praise: Sie haben den Norden verstanden, nicht schlecht.

Hear from the programme director that the tour becomes a book, with all its stories, and find a title with him.

Take the invitation to a live show at the Rathaus Schoeneberg and close Fluency Level Two.