Listening · A1
Im Café
Mira orders a drink and a piece of cake in a café and asks how to pay.
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Vocabulary
| German | English |
|---|---|
| der Tee | tea |
| der Pfefferminztee | peppermint tea |
| der Apfelkuchen | apple cake |
| die Sahne | cream |
| zusammen | together, in total |
| bezahlen | to pay |
Useful expressions
| German | English |
|---|---|
| Ich hätte gern … | I would like … |
| Was kostet das zusammen? | How much is that altogether? |
| Kann ich mit Karte bezahlen? | Can I pay by card? |
Grammar in this recording
Prices
Prices are read as euros + cents: „zwei Euro achtzig“ = 2,80 €.
- Der Tee kostet zwei Euro achtzig.
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 14 % 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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