Day 14: The Baltic Is Getting Warmer
At a beach bar in Kiel, Sophie (A) reads out a news headline to her friends Jan (B), a marine science student, and Nele (C).
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
Habt ihr das gelesen? „Die Ostsee kocht: Sie erwärmt sich schneller als die Weltmeere.“
Have you seen this? 'The Baltic is boiling: it's warming faster than the world's oceans.'
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B
Da hat mal wieder jemand eine Schlagzeile gebastelt, ohne die Studie auch nur überflogen zu haben.
Once again someone's cobbled together a headline without even skimming the study.
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C
Kocht sie nun oder nicht? Ich will nämlich gleich noch schwimmen gehen.
So is it boiling or not? Because I want to go for a swim in a minute.
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B
Wärmer wird sie tatsächlich, weil sie so flach ist, aber um ein paar Zehntelgrad pro Jahrzehnt.
It really is getting warmer, because it's so shallow, but by a few tenths of a degree per decade.
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A
Und wie misst man das überhaupt so genau?
And how do they even measure that so precisely?
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B
Indem man Messbojen verankert und Satellitendaten auswertet, und zwar schon seit über vierzig Jahren.
By anchoring measuring buoys and analysing satellite data, and they've been doing it for over forty years.
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C
Faszinierend, wirklich. Ich messe die Temperatur aber lieber selbst, indem ich reinspringe.
Fascinating, really. But I'd rather measure the temperature myself, by jumping in.
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