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word 
endings
and sentence 
word order
as you progress in learning the German language.
Following is a short conversation piece (
Gespräch
). Play the audio file first, then attempt to repeat what 
you hear, reading the spoken parts of the conversation. Go back and forth (listening and then speaking) 
until the German flows easily from your lips. This may take considerable practice. Refer to the 
vocabulary (
Vokabeln
) below to understand the meaning of the German sentences you are hearing and 
speaking.
Gespräch 1-1 ~ 
Die Freunde
Heinrich trifft Karl auf der Straße. Heinrich und Karl sind Freunde.
•
Heinrich
: 
Guten Tag, Karl. Wie geht es dir?
•
Karl
:
Guten Tag. Danke, es geht mir gut. Und dir?
•
Heinrich
: 
Danke, es geht mir gut. Auf Wiedersehen.
•
Karl
:
Auf Wiedersehen!
•
Audio
: 
OGG
 (97KB) 
In this conversation we learn several simple greetings exchanged between friends meeting very briefly 
on the street.
Vokabeln 1-1
This first vocabulary (
Vokabeln
) may seem a bit long considering you have been presented with only 
the brief conversation piece above, but it also contains all of the German words you have encountered 
up to this point in the Level II textbook, including words in photo captions and lesson section headers. 

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The layout of the 
Vokabeln
is explained in the 
Lesson Layout Guide
 in the German~English textbook 
introduction, but the four parts of the 
Vokabeln
are labeled in this first lesson to reenforce the concept. 
Note that column 3 may contain (in parentheses) additional notes about a word in column 1. Also, you 
can find the greeting phrases that appear in the simple conversations above (and many others) in 
Anhang 2
, a German-English phrase book.
NOUNS
der Anhang, die Anhänge appendix, appendices (singular and plural)
die Brücke bridge
der Freund, die Freunde friend, friends (singular and plural)
das Ge