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Coffee Break German

Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 8: Strahlende Gesichter

3/9/202639 min

Welcome back to Erna’s Café - our charming German café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, we follow a compelling story set in a local café and help you build your language skills naturally through storytelling.

Today, friendships are tested – and hearts are lightened.

Johanna betritt das Café Händchen haltend mit Nadine, und Erna ist sofort zur Stelle, um sie herzlich zu begrüßen. Die Erzählerin beobachtet die beiden verlegen kichernden Freundinnen, während die Sonne durch die Fenster f...

Clips

Saying "when I think about it"
Reflexive or dative? Sorted.
Can you be just "whelmed"?
Make them promise: sich lassen
Sanft vs. Senf mix-up

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    Are you really buying a car online on Auto Trader right now?

  2. Speaker 10:02

    Really. I can get super specific with dealer listings and see cars based on my budget.

  3. Speaker 00:06

    You can really have it delivered.

  4. Speaker 10:08

    Or pick it up.

  5. Speaker 2· Soundbite0:09

    Mommy, look!

  6. Speaker 00:09

    I think your kid is walking up the slide.

  7. Speaker 10:11

    Really? Auto Trader. Buy your car online. Really.

  8. Mark· Host0:14

    Scenes from the Coffee Break German Cafe, Season two, Lesson eight. [instrumental music] Hallo und herzlich willkommen zu Coffee Break German. Ich bin Mark.

  9. Thomas· Host0:43

    Hallo, ich heiße Thomas.

  10. Mark· Host0:45

    Wie geht's dir, Thomas?

  11. Thomas· Host0:47

    Äh, mir geht es sehr gut. Äh, heute hatten wir den großen Coffee Break Bake Off und ich habe sehr, sehr viel gegessen. Ich bin ein bisschen zu voll.

  12. Mark· Host0:55

    [lacht] It was indeed the Coffee Break Bake Off, but I was really gutted because I didn't get back into the office until after it.

  13. Thomas· Host1:02

    Nein, was? Du hast alles verpasst, Mark.

  14. Mark· Host1:04

    Alles verpasst, ja. Nicht, nichts gegessen. But nonetheless, everyone, it, it was kind of like our own Coffee Break Cafe here in the studio, wasn't it?

  15. Thomas· Host1:13

    Yes, and we had lots of savory, lots of sweet things. We had four winners, four different categories, and it was like the quality, the standard were high. The standards were high.

  16. Mark· Host1:22

    Ausgezeichnet. The only thing we didn't have was Erna.

  17. Thomas· Host1:25

    Oh, I wonder what she would have said to all the things that we, we tried today.

  18. Unknown speaker1:29

    [laughs]

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