Press secretary removed after five days | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News
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Today's story: Katie Zacharia was dismissed as press secretary after five days. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in German: Katie Zacharia nach fünf Tagen als Pressesprecherin entlassen
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:40) More stories today
(01:38) Today's headline, slowly
(02:27) The place and the dismissal
(03:15) Speaking
(04:10) No person yet
(05:03) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/german/a1/2026-10-17
TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT
Katie Zacharia nach fünf Tagen als Pressesprecherin entlassen
Das Weiße Haus hat Katie Zacharia nach fünf Tagen als Pressesprecherin entlassen.
Präsident Trump hat sie eine Woche vorher als neue Pressesprecherin ausgewählt.
Am Dienstag sprach Zacharia bei ihrer einzigen Pressekonferenz etwa zehn Minuten lang.
Danach beantwortete sie Fragen von drei Medien.
Das Weiße Haus hat noch keine Person für den Job genannt.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (Weiße Haus)
- vocabulary (vorher)
- verb (sprechen)
- vocabulary (Danach)
- vocabulary (noch)
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