Upper-Intermediate (C1)
Debates, negotiations and formal discussions, with official and academic German, reported speech, proverbs and dense vocabulary.
- 20 lessons
- About 7 lines each
By the end of Upper-Intermediate you will
- Understand debates, interviews, negotiations and expert explanations, even when they are fast and dense.
- Follow formal and official German next to casual speech, with its long noun phrases and reported speech (er sagt, er habe keine Zeit).
- Catch proverbs and idioms used naturally, and see how an argument is built.
All Upper-Intermediate lessons
- Day 1 The Freight Yard Plan
- Day 2 Polishing the Stones Outside
- Day 3 Counting Bees Next Door
- Day 4 A Guide to Putting Things Off
- Day 5 Front Page of the School Paper
- Day 6 An Extra in Sunday's Tatort
- Day 7 Splitting the Hedge Bill
- Day 8 Dad Wants to Work Until Seventy
- Day 9 An ETF for a Newborn
- Day 10 Interview Practice in the Back Seat
- Day 11 Only Saw the Film Version
- Day 12 Reading the Cataract Letter
- Day 13 Our Own Inflation Rate
- Day 14 The Baltic Is Getting Warmer
- Day 15 Haggling Over a Biedermeier Chest
- Day 16 Back From Toronto, First Day
- Day 17 Filling In the Donor Card
- Day 18 A Passport Before the Exchange
- Day 19 Swapping Stories After Future Day
- Day 20 Two Hundred Mugs by March
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