Help with German

[just_chiara]

I have my German oral exam next week. It's mainly about six themes and the teacher gave us audio files with transcriptions to help us prepare the exam. However, the transcription for one of the themes is missing. I have tried to listen to the file at least 30 times, but I can only understand maybe half of it. Partly because my German is bad, and

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Maintainer's note

[muckefuck]

(Just so you know, I deleted a presumably unintentional double-post.)

Re: Maintainer's note

[just_chiara]

Thank you. LJ took forever to give me the 'entry posted' page, so maybe something went wrong there.

[muckefuck]

That happens sometimes. No worries.

[yamx]

God, that soundfile must be a million years old... or at least twenty.

Here's a more modern video about learning German on the topic of buying stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Gnw3raoQw

Couldn't you ask the teacher for the missing transcription? It's probably an oversight.

[just_chiara]

Yeah, it was clearly originally on tape.

Thank you for the link, I'm going to check it out right now!

We don't have any lessons now. I sent her an email ten days ago and she still hasn't answered. :/

[yamx]

Yeah, it was clearly originally on tape.

That, too, but I meant because of the way these people talk. I seriously question the value of using material so out-of-date in language teaching. Even if you managed to sound *perfectly* like these people, you still wouldn't sound natural. And it's not just because of the "let's talk as if this is being recorded for use in classes!" intonation.

[majolika]

[majolika]

[just_chiara]

Yeah, these texts are always so unnatural. :/ But I'm glad to know that at least the expressions don't sound so strange.

[just_chiara]

thank you very much for this! It was really helpful.