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Times of the day, express despair and anger & determine the gender of nouns by their meanings: times of the day/days of the week/months/seasons/points of the compass, modal verb dürfen and modal verb summary.

The next morning after the party, Paul realizes that the precious book he got from his parents is gone. They must never find out about it! The profile of his online date Laura, who didn’t show up, is also deleted. Paul is desperate. Why didn't Laura come, and why did she delete her online profile? How would his parents react if they ever found out the book is gone? Or did Paul maybe just misplace it? Where could it be?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/25-es-ist-nicht-mehr-da-times-of-the-day

German Stories starts from zero, and leads you to your goal in small steps

It's not difficult to create a learning story and jump to complicated grammatical structures early on, just so the author doesn't have a hard time writing. But it's very difficult to fit your writing into a well structured teaching plan, so that the student doesn't have too much trouble learning German.

We did it the hard way. Hard for us, easy for you: Luckily there's only a little bit of grammar per episode for you to learn. If you're curious about our motivations behind putting in so much effort, go to german-stories.com/the-best-way-to-learn-german

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Describe and evaluate situations and objects, congratulate & gender of nouns: words with endings -ei / -schaft.

At Pauls housewarming party, the book comes up: It is a precious gift from Paul's father. His friends are skeptical about the value. They praise Paul's beautiful wallpaper - but in truth, they find it ugly. Laura doesn't come. Fritz says he had lots of tips and photos that he was able to use to find and arrest the Großkauf thieves. Maybe he'll be promoted for this. Why didn't Laura come after all? Will Fritz really get a promotion?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/24-die-party-congratulate-describe-situations-objects

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Rooms of an apartment & gender of nouns: words with endings -ung / -heit / -keit.

Paul shows you his new apartment before the housewarming party. He is thrilled: His wallpaper is so beautiful! He reveals that Tim is also coming. Apparently he is no longer angry. Maybe he just hadn't read Paul's message? And Fritz says at short notice that he will be late - he's gonna catch the Großkauf thieves today. Fritz already knows in advance that he's gonna catch the thieves today? How can he be so sure?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/23-pauls-wohnung-rooms-of-an-apartment

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Colors, materials, and shapes & gender of nouns: words with endings -t and -e.

The furniture store apprentice cleans up and wonders who wants to buy such an ugly wallpaper. This is embarrassing because at that moment, Paul comes. He hears this and says he wants to buy the wallpaper. Tim really seems to be angry. Or why does he ignore Paul?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/22-gruen-lang-und-aus-metall-colors-materials-and-shapes

There is a constant, low amount of new words per episode

When writing a learning story it's easy to get carried away by an idea for a dialog. But that can result in an episode having way too many new words. That's demotivating for the learner. We counted every word and went through endless writing and re-writing sessions for every episode to make sure that didn't happen to our story. If you want know why we spent over 1 1/2 years of work before we even published our first lesson, got to german-stories.com/the-best-way-to-learn-german

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Describe objects, furniture, ask for repitition & gender of nouns: words with endings -chen and -lein.

Paul buys a little table and chair for his apartment. The message he got is not from Tim. It's from Meili who asks if she should bring music to the party. Paul writes to Tim: 'Are you angry?' Is Tim still mad? Will he not come to the party?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/21-wie-bitte-gender-of-nouns

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Furniture, directions, days of the week & gender of nouns: words with endings -er and -ling.

Paul is shopping for furniture before the party. He is looking for wallpaper for his new apartment. That's when he gets a message. Is it from Tim? Is he still angry? Will he not come to the party?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/20-paul-will-moebel-kaufen-nouns-gender-furniture-weekdays

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Informal salutations and complimentary closes in full messages like emails & sentence structure with “tecamolo”, make a comparison and express a contrast.

Paul sends an invitation for his housewarming party in the group chat. Everybody is excited. Meili should come, too, and join the group. He also invites Tim, and pokes fun at him: He should only drink milk so that he doesn't embarrass himself again. Tim answers: “You can celebrate alone”. Is he not coming after all?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/19-danke-fuer-die-einladung-german-sentence-structure-tecamolo

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Greetings and farewells in a text message & irregular verbs: geben/lesen/sehen, modal particle ‚aber‘.

Paul is chatting with Laura again. This time he is not so clumsy. He invites her to his housewarming party, and she accepts the invitation. But Paul is unsure: Should he also invite Tim? Maybe Anna wouldn't like that …

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/18-kommt-laura-zur-party-irregular-verbs-modal-particle-aber

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Phone call, give out personal information & modal particle ‚mal‘.

Paul thinks about how to invite Laura to his housewarming party. That's when a man from the insurance company calls and asks him questions. We find out more about Paul. He has absolutely no idea what to write Laura. What should he write her?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/17-paul-telefoniert-modal-particle-mal

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Explain a situation, give advice, make it up with somebody & irregular verbs: sprechen/essen/treffen, modal particles ‚denn‘ and ‚ja‘.

Tim arrives at the restaurant, and it turns out that Paul wasn't invited to his sister's wedding because he doesn't really know her anyway. Tim must have behaved embarrassingly at the wedding. But Anna is apparently no longer angry. Paul talks about his online date Laura. Anna and Meili propose a housewarming party and Paul should invite her. Can Paul convince Laura of himself?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/16-eine-party-super-idee-modal-particles-denn-ja

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