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Jobs, offices, colleagues, interviews and business. 200 lessons, each building on the days before it in its level: the earlier the day, the less you need to know first.
- 26 in Newbie
- 26 in Pre-Elementary
- 38 in Elementary
- 47 in Intermediate
- 36 in Upper-Intermediate
- 27 in Advanced
Newbie (A1)
- Day 3 Not a Student but a Teacher
- Day 39 No Office, Just a Bus
- Day 44 Vocational School on Thursday
- Day 59 The Office Is Out of Coffee
- Day 68 A Call to Zurich at Two
- Day 71 Coffee Break at Half Past Ten
- Day 96 Five Euros for a Leaving Present
- Day 101 Market Stall at Dawn
- Day 139 Saturdays at the Cheese Stand
- Day 147 First Stop, the Coffee Machine
- Day 153 The Boy Next Door, Now Pharmacist
- Day 167 First Lesson with Class 5b
- Day 181 The Office Dog on Fridays
- Day 188 Get Well Soon, Cat
- Day 205 A New Colleague from Poland
- Day 210 Go Home and Get Better
- Day 217 Late for the Safety Training
- Day 237 Parents Just Arrived from Kraków
- Day 258 Trainers on a Client Day
- Day 264 Breakfast After the Night Shift
- Day 280 Rolls by Bike to the Harbour
- Day 283 A Pupil Fell Asleep
- Day 291 Wrong Way on Day Two
- Day 306 Serving My Teacher on Saturday
- Day 309 The Breakfast Shift Starts at Six
- Day 320 Mum Visits My Market Stall
Pre-Elementary (A2)
- Day 6 Help Wanted in the Café Window
- Day 14 The Post Office Opens at Nine
- Day 37 Complaint From the Dentist Next Door
- Day 43 Blue Bin, Yellow Bag
- Day 54 Walking Dogs Before Lectures
- Day 62 Swapping Saturday for Thursday
- Day 68 Her First Story Hour
- Day 73 Good News From Zurich
- Day 94 One Summer Job for Two
- Day 143 Dog Walking for Extra Cash
- Day 148 Not the Lab but the Library
- Day 154 First Morning at the Counter
- Day 155 Locked Out Without a Badge
- Day 161 Cough Syrup Behind the Counter
- Day 169 Parcels to the Post Before Five
- Day 175 Big Tip on the First Shift
- Day 178 Pfand for the Coffee Fund
- Day 189 Cough Syrup and Blood Pressure
- Day 192 Five Kilometres for the Team
- Day 210 Planning the Courtyard Party
- Day 214 Saturdays in the Bookshop
- Day 234 Her Parcel Is in the Cupboard
- Day 236 Gym Pass from the First
- Day 245 Nervous Before the Client Call
- Day 253 Sent to the Wrong Group
- Day 258 Help Wanted at the Bakery
Elementary (B1)
- Day 8 Grandad's Carpentry Apprenticeship
- Day 12 Saver Tickets Booked in June
- Day 20 Grandad Wanted to Go to Sea
- Day 25 One Assistant Job, Two Students
- Day 33 The Nervous Trainee Waiter
- Day 36 The Customer Who Calls Daily
- Day 39 A Lucky Charm for Mum
- Day 40 Asking to Change Seats
- Day 55 Twenty Hours in a Warehouse
- Day 61 Go Home and Rest
- Day 66 I'll Be a Baker
- Day 67 Two Offers, One Answer
- Day 71 She Met Him at Work
- Day 82 The Team's Christmas Outing
- Day 92 First Week at the Office
- Day 106 From Lecture Hall to Workshop
- Day 108 The Sign in the Pizzeria Window
- Day 117 The Office Relay Team
- Day 129 Standing In for the Boss
- Day 132 A Job Across the Border
- Day 138 Back to Work at Sixty-Eight
- Day 147 Two Minutes Too Late in Hamburg
- Day 150 A Day Off Before the Exam
- Day 153 Up at Five for the Apprenticeship
- Day 155 Nobody Brought a Cake
- Day 156 A Day at Dad's Office
- Day 163 A Collection for the New Baby
- Day 165 A Baker Looking for Apprentices
- Day 176 A Dog That Barks All Day
- Day 184 No Desk of Her Own
- Day 189 Fresh Eyes on a Cover Letter
- Day 190 Advice from a Retired Nurse
- Day 191 First Day Behind the Counter
- Day 193 Almost Leaving on the First
- Day 196 Retraining at Forty-Five
- Day 201 Two Hours Late on Day One
- Day 203 Shorter Reports, Please
- Day 213 Godfather on a Friday
Intermediate (B2)
- Day 3 Twelve Hours Instead of Eight
- Day 4 A Trade Fair and a Detour
- Day 16 An Electrician on the Tram
- Day 23 Asparagus Season at Home
- Day 26 Who Burnt the Sauce?
- Day 27 What the Bank Adviser Said
- Day 28 The Office Dog Goes Viral
- Day 31 Six Months in Trondheim
- Day 39 Is Generation Z Lazy?
- Day 43 Bikes Paid by the Company
- Day 44 Rehearsing the Pay Talk
- Day 45 University Without the Abitur
- Day 49 Grandad Asks About the App
- Day 58 Working Between the Years
- Day 62 Energy Scouts at Work
- Day 65 From Munich to Görlitz
- Day 67 Two Weeks of Sweeping
- Day 68 Two Offers and a Climbing Wall
- Day 75 Two Months of Parental Leave
- Day 78 A Week of Samples Ruined
- Day 81 Coffee Beans Cost Double
- Day 82 A Desk in the Coworking Space
- Day 90 Who Takes Over the Workshop?
- Day 95 Swapping Saturdays at the Ice-Cream Stand
- Day 97 A Rumour in the Warehouse
- Day 99 Commuting From the Reinhardswald
- Day 112 Who Gets Dad's Sourdough?
- Day 113 Leaving Law for Carpentry
- Day 118 The Founder Nobody Has Met
- Day 122 A Bike Challenge for the Team
- Day 124 The Driver's Quarrel With Dispatch
- Day 129 Handing Over the Library Job
- Day 132 Part-Time to Care for Dad
- Day 133 From the Bank to the Ward
- Day 135 Forty Years of Folders
- Day 136 Rejected Before Lunch
- Day 137 The Lemonade Company
- Day 138 The Headline He Didn't Read Past
- Day 145 Student Art in the Open-Plan Office
- Day 151 Overtime at the Recycling Bins
- Day 153 Beans Roasted in a Garage
- Day 159 Grandma Worked in Switzerland Too
- Day 167 Leaving Early for the Company Cup
- Day 168 A Doctorate or a Salary?
- Day 176 Spreewald Gherkins Go Online
- Day 181 An Offer From Jena
- Day 185 Night Train to a New Job
Upper-Intermediate (C1)
- Day 8 Dad Wants to Work Until Seventy
- Day 10 Interview Practice in the Back Seat
- Day 16 Back From Toronto, First Day
- Day 19 Swapping Internship Reports
- Day 20 Two Hundred Mugs by March
- Day 28 A Letter to Mum's Boss
- Day 30 One Shelf for a Month
- Day 33 Parking Spaces or a Bike Lane
- Day 34 More Data Than We Promised
- Day 41 Trialling a Four-Day Week
- Day 43 Fix the Gears While We Talk
- Day 52 A Trial Shift Scooping Ice Cream
- Day 58 The Chair's Unwritten Rules
- Day 59 Board Game Before the Toy Fair
- Day 61 Cutting My Flood Story in Half
- Day 73 A Nurse From Hanoi
- Day 76 Jobticket Instead of Parking
- Day 79 The Hardest Question They Asked
- Day 87 An Apprenticeship Among Bicycles
- Day 90 Yesterday's Bread for the Tafel
- Day 91 Rehearsing Over Breakfast
- Day 101 The Missing Hotel Receipt
- Day 103 Emails After Ten at Night
- Day 104 Woolly Hats in June?
- Day 106 An Inn Without a Successor
- Day 108 Before the Swimming Pool Meeting
- Day 109 Interviewed by His Daughter
- Day 113 The Nutcracker Workshop's Future
- Day 114 Ten Hours on Paper
- Day 116 The Intern Asks the Mayor
- Day 125 The Four-Day Week on Stage
- Day 130 Ties Cut on Weiberfastnacht
- Day 136 Eight Years in Texas, Then Ingolstadt
- Day 137 A Raise or a Jobticket
- Day 140 The Firefighter's Medical
- Day 146 Three Generations of Office Hours
Advanced (C2)
- Day 14 Beeswax Wraps in the Lions' Den
- Day 17 Too Direct for Basel
- Day 21 Reviewing the Paper That Attacks Him
- Day 28 An Elevator Pitch, Literally
- Day 34 Forgot the Boss's Title in Linz
- Day 41 Selling Classics to Investors
- Day 62 Grandad's Advice for a New Diplomat
- Day 63 My Brother Writes the Candidate's Lines
- Day 77 Pitching to My Mother-in-Law
- Day 78 Hold the Care-Home Story
- Day 79 Free Will at Sunrise
- Day 89 Reusable Boxes for Sunday Rolls
- Day 102 One Word Before Midnight
- Day 104 Save Yourself the Cringe
- Day 105 The Wrong Rent Figure
- Day 106 Fainting on Placement
- Day 107 A Spin-Off in Ulm
- Day 109 Four Days on Trial
- Day 112 The Feel-Good Initiative
- Day 115 Waffles, Profit and Dividends
- Day 116 What Room Twelve Was Saying
- Day 117 Reviewer Two Strikes Again
- Day 121 The Boss Who Says Digga
- Day 126 Rehearsal for the Labour Court
- Day 130 Fifty Euros for Dog Walking
- Day 132 Who Gets the Boat Hire?
- Day 133 A Loan for a Camera
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