Day 48: Nobody Had Cleared the Steps
From a hospital in Osnabrück, Antje Schulte (A), a tenant, phones her landlord, Torsten Wagner (B), about a fall this morning.
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.
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A
Herr Wagner, Schulte hier. Ich rufe aus dem Krankenhaus an.
Mr Wagner, it's Ms Schulte. I'm calling from the hospital.
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B
Um Gottes willen! Was ist passiert?
Good heavens! What happened?
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A
Als ich heute früh rausging, bin ich auf der glatten Treppe hingefallen.
When I went out this morning, I fell on the icy front steps.
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B
War der Hausmeister denn nicht gekommen?
Hadn't the caretaker come round, then?
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A
Nein. Bitte kümmern Sie sich darum, sonst liegt morgen der Nächste hier.
No. Please see to it, or the next person will be lying here tomorrow.
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