Day 125: No Way Through the Parade
In Neuss during the Schützenfest, the town's marksmen's festival, Hubertus (A), a local man in uniform, stops Svenja (B), a young woman on her way to the station, at a barrier.
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
Halt, da kommen Sie jetzt nicht durch! Der Umzug dauert noch mindestens eine Stunde.
Stop, you won't get through there now! The parade's going on for at least another hour.
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B
Eine Stunde? Mein Zug fährt in zwanzig Minuten, und heute früh war hier alles frei!
An hour? My train leaves in twenty minutes, and this morning everything here was clear!
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A
Heute ist Schützenfest, da marschieren so viele Schützen mit, dass die Innenstadt stundenlang dicht ist.
It's the Schützenfest today, and so many marksmen march in the parade that the town centre is closed off for hours.
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B
Und das weiß jeder außer mir? Ein Schild am Bahnhof wäre nett gewesen.
And everyone knows that except me? A sign at the station would have been nice.
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A
Trösten Sie sich: Ich hatte bei meinem Umzug hierher auch nicht dran gedacht. Der Möbelwagen steckte ewig fest.
If it's any comfort, when I moved here I hadn't thought of it either. The removal van was stuck for ages.
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B
Ihr Umzug steckte im Umzug fest? Und jetzt laufen Sie selbst in Uniform mit?
Your move got stuck in the parade? And now you march in it yourself, in uniform?
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A
Seit zwanzig Jahren. Kommen Sie, zwischen den nächsten zwei Kapellen bringe ich Sie rüber.
For twenty years now. Come on, I'll take you across between the next two bands.
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