Day 92: First Week at the Office
On the phone on a Friday evening, Ulrich (A), at home in Wolfsburg, asks his daughter Annika (B) about her first week at a new office job in Hamburg.
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
Na, wie war deine erste Woche im Büro?
So, how was your first week at the office?
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B
Anstrengend! Nur Besprechungen, und ich traue mich kaum, was zu fragen.
Exhausting! Nothing but meetings, and I hardly dare ask anything.
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A
Ach, als ich bei VW angefangen habe, ging's mir genauso.
Oh, when I started at VW, I felt exactly the same.
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B
Du? Aber du weißt doch immer alles!
You? But you always know everything!
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A
Heute ja. Aber am Anfang ist es ganz normal, viele Fragen zu stellen.
These days, yes. But at the start it's completely normal to ask lots of questions.
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B
Und deine erste Frage war bestimmt: Wo gibt's hier Currywurst?
And I bet your first question was: where can I get a currywurst round here?
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