Ice cream and the economics Nobel Prize | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News
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Today's story: The Nobel Prize in economics: what ice cream has to do with it.. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in German: Nobelpreis für Wirtschaft: Was Eiscreme damit zu tun hat
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:42) More stories today
(01:32) Today's headline, slowly
(02:15) Naming the winners
(02:46) Working
(03:38) An ice-cream menu
(04:38) Today's grammar point
(05:08) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/german/a1/2026-10-14
TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT
Nobelpreis für Wirtschaft: Was Eiscreme damit zu tun hat
Am Montag hat das Nobelkomitee in Schweden Robert Hall und Michael Woodford als Gewinner genannt.
Robert Hall arbeitet an der Stanford University, und Michael Woodford arbeitet an der Columbia University.
Ihre Forschung erklärt, wie Preise und Entscheidungen die Wirtschaft beeinflussen.
Timo Boppart hat eine Eiskarte benutzt und Preise erklärt, die sich nicht schnell ändern.
Geschäfte können einen Preis für eine ganze Saison behalten und ihn nicht jeden Tag ändern.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (genannt)
- verb (arbeiten)
- vocabulary (beeinflussen)
- vocabulary (Eiskarte)
- vocabulary (eine ganze Saison)
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