Chapter 1, Day 1: Listen and shadow

Berlin, Baby! – Learn German from Zero · Oct 30, 2026 · 14m

Sam Taylor lands in Berlin, and his first German conversation is at passport control. In Day 1 you hear the whole Chapter 1 story and shadow it out loud: every new word comes slowly, then at normal speed, then it's your turn in the gap.

You'll practise:

Hallo vs. Guten Tag: the casual and the polite hello

Ihren Pass, bitte (your passport, please) and Ja, das steht hier

Ich heiße Sam: saying your name

Woher kommen Sie? Ich komme aus Sambia: saying where you're from (and why the German S in Sambia sounds like a Z)

Willkommen in Deutschland and Danke schön (plus the ö sound)

Meeting Lena at…