German · A118 min

Lara meets Daniel at the language exchange

Practice A1 German in a short story where Lara meets Daniel at the language exchange. Tap individual words, follow line-by-line meaning, and review vocabulary from the scene.

  1. Vocabulary
  2. Story
  3. Support
  4. Grammar
  5. Practice
  6. Review

Start with the short scene first. Tap individual words when you want the vocabulary, then use the line-by-line support to confirm the full sentence before you reread it.

Core vocabulary

Target wordTranslationType
heiße

am called

verb

komme

come from

verb

wohne

live

verb

Sprache

language

noun

lernen

to learn

verb

Name

name

noun

Stadt

city

noun

Freund

friend

noun

heute

today

time word

woher

where from

question word

Core text

LEA
OMAR
LEA?
OMAR.
LEA.

Line-by-line support

Read each line with the direct translation beside it. Use this section to slow down and confirm exactly what each speaker says.

LEA
Hallo!

hello

OMAR
Freut mich.

Nice to meet you

LEA
Woher kommst du?

Where are you from?

OMAR
Ich komme aus Kairo.

I come from Cairo.

LEA
Ich komme aus Berlin.

I come from Berlin.

Grammar in context

These are the two patterns doing the most work in this lesson. Learn them as reusable sentence frames, not as isolated rules.

ich heiße

German introductions often begin with ich heiße plus your name.

Ich heiße Lara.A standard self-introduction.

ich komme aus

This frame lets you say where you come from with very little extra grammar.

Ich komme aus Berlin.A useful origin statement.

Extension reading

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Review

Story check: What is Lara trying to do in this lesson, and what detail changes the situation?

Vocabulary check: Find heiße, komme, wohne, and Sprache in the story text again. Explain what each word is doing in its sentence.

Retell: Retell the scene in two or three sentences using heiße and komme. Then add one sentence about why the ending matters for Lara.

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