Speaker 1: Fluid dorg.
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Speaker 3: In this episode, will follow Klaus as he transforms a
Speaker 3: monotonous commute into a heartwarming adventure by daring to step
Speaker 3: off his routine path.
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Speaker 1: De vinta in Berlin is kite is kite klaus sits
Speaker 1: off impendlatsugen rechtstadtzentrum, jeden morgen desebevik dizebezichte diezeben gedantan it
Speaker 1: seats on a schil anger on denhides defense that the
Speaker 1: istzuk sin beschlagen drausen c de faschneider washda anim for
Speaker 1: bai klaus ist metafertzi seign job in bureau is siha
Speaker 1: abba langwilich er schraped sign and taban yeden hug for
Speaker 1: nain bisfinth manchmazenzi klausner upwaxlong nahatwas echtem the laugebraha and
Speaker 1: zu krechtsen i'd the nastastadtsion angerzagtward engedannke blitz to sign
Speaker 1: and kopfa was were when er ainva auschtegen verde an
Speaker 1: anastatsion diannist kent einfa eimal at vasraskirn dead zu kat
Speaker 1: klaus steed out before their gedankeva klomenist thas heads klopped
Speaker 1: in bistom heights airshtygdaus kalteluf driftzen sicht, the barnferdvitera on
Speaker 1: Klaus blaped off the bansdike stein Alice worked frammed abba
Speaker 1: or halfragned di stazionist kleiner at avattat Speiglisa and pabenker
Speaker 1: and e'n kiosk of their under inside their glaser zide
Speaker 1: yemanten the imba kant foecomte eine fraumed rotem schalda's ist
Speaker 1: Monica aina alte schulfreenden the hatzig khaumfa ended Klaus roofed
Speaker 1: the ashdowned at the inn a kant, the comte ner
Speaker 1: the lejeed as stein vames echtes lechen, the Omamanzich wasa
Speaker 1: mastuhir fragged Monica klauslacht echporta einfer mal at vasnuez sizas
Speaker 1: of anabank on plowden. Monica had sailed for Iram job
Speaker 1: Inderstadt van Iram kleinen hunt Klaus hurd su on furtzig
Speaker 1: Lebendi deeed side faget on si lachenfield, i'm end the
Speaker 1: Taushenzi telephone, no man OUs monica, sagt less on snacht
Speaker 1: vida jaafagain lessen it's klausch beta vida m suksids of
Speaker 1: the Wegnerhauser filled as if ended their altag mark eintny
Speaker 1: sign danked as a aby a khanjida side neueveg again
Speaker 1: mademosnaden motaben austuschteigen der schnefeld vitter abby de kay de
Speaker 1: de strd in nichtme zosia klaus had wermer m Hardzinger funten,
Speaker 1: i'm kleiner schritt and s unba canta hartzenvetka ifnet elecht
Speaker 1: is ostmfensta shout jah zvahen guta tag der anfang fon
Speaker 1: et vasnayem.
Speaker 3: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
Speaker 1: Der Vinta in Berlin is kite.
Speaker 3: The winter in Berlin is cold, ice, kite ice cold.
Speaker 1: Klaus sits of the impend la sug in rechtom stat sentrom.
Speaker 3: Klaus sits on the commuter train heading toward the city center.
Speaker 1: Jeden morgendsel bevig dizden ghezichte diezden gedantan.
Speaker 3: Every morning, the same route, the same faces, the same thoughts.
Speaker 1: It's siitzen and schail enger om din heiz.
Speaker 3: He pulls his scarf tighter around his neck.
Speaker 1: Defense that is zuk sind peschlagen.
Speaker 3: The train windows are fogged up drausan c.
Speaker 1: T faschneid to fostat anim.
Speaker 3: Fobai outside the snow covered suburbs pass by him.
Speaker 1: Klaus is mete frtzich.
Speaker 3: Klaus is in his mid forties.
Speaker 1: Zeenjob mburou is sicha abba Langwilich.
Speaker 3: His office job is secure but boring.
Speaker 1: Eschreibzan and tabin.
Speaker 3: He writes numbers into spreadsheets.
Speaker 1: Jeden tag for nine bisfunf.
Speaker 3: Every day from nine to five.
Speaker 1: Manch marzen sich klausnach apvekslon nah etwas echtem.
Speaker 3: Sometimes Klaus longs for something different, something real.
Speaker 1: The lauch precher msu krechtzen ads dinees destat sun angazaktat.
Speaker 3: The loud speakers on the train crackle as the next
Speaker 3: station is announced.
Speaker 1: An gaedanka, blitz toussen and kopf.
Speaker 3: A thought flashes through his mind.
Speaker 1: Vas vere vener einfa auschtegenverde. What if he simply got
Speaker 1: off an an ashtatzion darnich.
Speaker 3: Kent at a station he doesn't know ein pha.
Speaker 1: Ein mal et vas reskirn.
Speaker 3: Just take a risk for once detsu kate. The train stops.
Speaker 1: Klauschtet alf before de gadanka fer Klomenist.
Speaker 3: Klaus stands up before the thought fades.
Speaker 1: DEAs hats klopped visto heights.
Speaker 3: His heart is pounding in his chest, er stiched OUs.
Speaker 1: He gets off kaelteluftriftzengezicht.
Speaker 3: Cold air hits his face.
Speaker 1: The ban fiertwetter on klauslipped off the imban steik Steen.
Speaker 3: The train moves on and Klaus remains standing on the platform.
Speaker 1: Alice wktrempt ava or Alfreigt.
Speaker 3: Everything seems strange but also exciting.
Speaker 1: Distazion Ist Kleiner at avatt.
Speaker 3: The station is smaller than expected.
Speaker 1: Spy glaiser i'm pabenker ont ein kiosk.
Speaker 3: Two tracks, a few benches and a kiosk.
Speaker 1: Of derander and sete de gleiser ze yemanten de imbacante focomte.
Speaker 3: On the other side of the tracks, he sees someone
Speaker 3: who looks familiar.
Speaker 1: Einer fraumedrotem Schel, a woman with a red scarf. Des
Speaker 1: is Monica. That is Monica Aina al de schulfreud In,
Speaker 1: an old school friend zi hatzi kampha ended.
Speaker 3: She has hardly changed.
Speaker 1: Klaus Klaus rufzi ershed down at see in a kint.
Speaker 3: She calls out in surprise when she recognizes.
Speaker 1: Him, the komt neer zie Lechet.
Speaker 3: She comes closer.
Speaker 1: She smiles, as is Anne vamos echtes Lechen.
Speaker 3: It's a warm, genuine smile.
Speaker 1: The omamanzich they hud vas maastu here.
Speaker 3: What are you doing here?
Speaker 1: Frakt Monica asks Monica Klaus slacht. Klaus laughs ich parta
Speaker 1: ain fa mal et vasnai is.
Speaker 3: I just needed something new?
Speaker 1: The z of Anna bank on Plowden.
Speaker 3: They sit on a bench and chat.
Speaker 1: Monica at said van Iram job Inderstadt van Iram kleinen Hunt.
Speaker 3: Monica talks about her job in the city, about her
Speaker 3: little dog.
Speaker 1: Klaus hurtsu on furzichle Bendich.
Speaker 3: Klaus listens and feels alive.
Speaker 1: Deed, said fergit Onzi lahn.
Speaker 3: Feel time passes and they laugh a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm end at taoshnzi telephone no manaus.
Speaker 3: In the end they exchange phone numbers.
Speaker 1: Monica's act lets on snide ya feggin lessen.
Speaker 3: Monica says, let's not let years pass by again.
Speaker 1: It's Klaus speta vide imsuk sis of dim weeknahauser futezifer
Speaker 1: end at.
Speaker 3: Later, when Klaus is sitting on the train again on
Speaker 3: his way home, he feels changed.
Speaker 1: Dear alitak mark, i'm too anich sign thinked ezich avia
Speaker 1: ekhanyider said nouevig again.
Speaker 3: The everyday life may be monotonous, he thinks to himself,
Speaker 3: but he can take new pads at any time.
Speaker 1: Manmosn mota aust susteigen.
Speaker 3: You just have to have the courage to get off.
Speaker 1: Der schneefertwta aberd k de stutzzia.
Speaker 3: The snow continues to fall, but the cold doesn't bother
Speaker 3: him as much anymore.
Speaker 1: Klaus hatwama imhatzengefunten.
Speaker 3: Klaus has found warmth in his heart and.
Speaker 1: Kleiner Schritten's unba canta hatzenevetka ifnet.
Speaker 3: A small step into the unknown has opened his world.
Speaker 1: Elechit a ostimfensta shout.
Speaker 3: He smiles as he looks out the window. Yeah is far,
Speaker 3: I'm good attack, Yes, it was a good day. There
Speaker 3: anfang fan at first naim the beginning of something new.
Speaker 4: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 4: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in German, then in English.
Speaker 1: The appendlett suk de appendlett zuk de appendlet suk, commuter train,
Speaker 1: dear shall, dear shall, dear shall, scarf di tabella, di tabele,
Speaker 1: d tabele spreadsheet, delauch prescia, delauch pressia, derlauch prescia, loud speaker,
Speaker 1: dishtat sion, dishtatsion, dishtatzio station, their branch dike, their banchdke,
Speaker 1: their banch dyke platform, first night, first night, fresh.
Speaker 3: Night, snow covered.
Speaker 1: Deforsh that deforsh, that def wash, that suburbs. I'm tunich
Speaker 1: iron too niche I into nich monogness de gliser de gliser,
Speaker 1: de gliser tracks their kiosk, their kiosk, their kiosk kiosk.
Speaker 1: The bank, the bank, d bank bench, becht echt echt
Speaker 1: genuine fair in that fair, in that fair in that changed,
Speaker 1: the hea zi here zi here secure lang Wili Lang
Speaker 1: Wiley Lang Viley boring. There's Risico. There's Risico does reasy
Speaker 1: co risk bush Lagen, bush Lagen, bush Lagen, fucked up?
Speaker 1: De Vermer, de vermer, de vermer warmth be, can't becan't be,
Speaker 1: can't familiar the uber Rahm, the uber Rachm, the uber
Speaker 1: Rason surprise their mood, their mood, they are mood courage.
Speaker 1: There's Umbercanter. Do's Umbercanter? Does Umbercanter?
Speaker 3: Unknown?
Speaker 1: Their attack their a attack, their all attack routine. There's
Speaker 1: Hats does hats does hats hard. They're unfun, They're unfund
Speaker 1: they are unfun beginning. They're weak. De vik der vik
Speaker 1: raut mite Feltzich mite, Filtzich, mite, filtzich mid forties klopfen, klopfen,
Speaker 1: kloppen pound Taushen Taushian Taushen exchange.
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