Day 48: Two More Weeks, Professor
At the University of Jena, students Dominik (A) and Maren (B) ask their professor, Professor Ahrens (C), for more time to finish their group paper.
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
Frau Ahrens, ließe sich die von Ihnen gesetzte Frist für unsere Hausarbeit um zwei Wochen verlängern?
Professor Ahrens, could the deadline you set for our paper be extended by two weeks?
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B
Die Pressestelle hat den Link zu unserer Umfrage nämlich drei Wochen liegen lassen, ohne uns Bescheid zu sagen.
The press office sat on the link to our survey for three weeks without letting us know.
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C
Die Frist steht seit Semesterbeginn fest, Ausnahmen mache ich keine. Statt jetzt um Aufschub zu bitten, hätten Sie mir die Verzögerung früher melden müssen.
The deadline has been fixed since the start of term, and I don't make exceptions. Rather than asking for more time now, you should have told me about the delay sooner.
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A
Immerhin haben am Ende über tausend Studierende mitgemacht, und die erst gestern ausgewerteten Daten sind wirklich überraschend.
Still, over a thousand students took part in the end, and the data, which we only analysed yesterday, is really surprising.
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C
Über tausend? Also gut, zwei Wochen, aber dafür stellen Sie die Ergebnisse im Juni auf unserer Studierendenkonferenz vor.
Over a thousand? All right, two weeks, but in return you present your results at our student conference in June.
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B
Vor Publikum? Dominik wird ja schon bei Referaten im Seminar knallrot.
In front of an audience? Dominik goes bright red just giving a presentation in a seminar.
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A
Danke, Maren. Abgemacht, Frau Ahrens: Lieber auf der Bühne rot werden als durchfallen.
Thanks, Maren. It's a deal, Professor Ahrens: better to go red on stage than to fail.
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