Listening · A1
Ankunft im Wohnheim
A new student meets the caretaker of her student residence and asks about her room, the kitchen and the office hours.
A1Arriving at the student residence49 s5 questions
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Vocabulary
| German | English |
|---|---|
| das Wohnheim | student residence |
| der Hausmeister | caretaker |
| der Stock | floor (of a building) |
| der Aufzug | lift, elevator |
| der Schlüssel | key |
| teilen | to share |
| geöffnet | open |
Useful expressions
| German | English |
|---|---|
| Herzlich willkommen! | Welcome! |
| Gern geschehen. | You're welcome. |
| Einen schönen Tag noch! | Have a nice day! |
Grammar in this recording
Ordinal numbers for floors
Floors use ordinal numbers with „im … Stock“: im ersten, zweiten, dritten Stock.
- Ihr Zimmer ist im zweiten Stock.
About this recording
- Script
- German Prep editorial team. Original German Prep script. © German Prep. All rights reserved.
- Speech synthesis
- Piper TTS 1.8.0 (piper-tts, OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl) — GPL-3.0-or-later (licence of the synthesis software)
- Voice „thorsten“
- Model de_DE-thorsten-medium (MIT (rhasspy/piper-voices)), trained on Thorsten-Voice (CC0 1.0). Model card (opens in a new tab)
- Voice „kerstin“
- Model de_DE-kerstin-low (MIT (rhasspy/piper-voices)), trained on dataset-voice-kerstin (CC0 1.0). Model card (opens in a new tab)
- Automatic check
- Vosk (offline speech recognition), model vosk-model-small-de-0.15 (Apache-2.0): word error rate 11 % against the script on 9 October 2026. Some differences come from the small recognition model, not the audio.
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- Not yet reviewed by a human editor.
- Version
- Version 1, updated 9 October 2026
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