Day 45: Bring Your Own Sausage
Driving home through Frankfurt after their first barbecue with German colleagues, Simone (A) and her husband Patrick (B), a Canadian couple, talk about the evening.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a German word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native German, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.
Keys: E hide English · ← → previous / next day · point at a word to see its meaning
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A
Hast du dich auch gewundert? Alle hatten Fleisch und Salat dabei!
Were you surprised too? Everyone had brought meat and a salad!
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B
Und wir nur mit Wein. Wie peinlich!
And us with just wine. How embarrassing!
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A
Ach, die haben sich doch über den Wein gefreut.
Oh, come on, they were pleased with the wine.
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B
Trotzdem! Warum hatte uns das keiner gesagt?
Still! Why had nobody told us?
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A
Äh, das stand in der Einladung. Die hatte ich nur nicht ganz gelesen.
Er, it was in the invitation. I just hadn't read it all the way through.
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