Listening · B1
Informationen für Erstsemester
A student adviser welcomes new students and explains the student card, the orientation week, the flat search and her office hours.
B1Information for first-year students1 min 16 s6 questions
Listen
Speed
Tip: listen once or twice without the transcript, answer the questions, then read along.
Select a line to play the recording from there.
Questions
6 questions. You can keep playing the recording while you answer. Your result is saved in this browser.
Vocabulary
| German | English |
|---|---|
| der Studierendenausweis | student card |
| der Semesterbeitrag | semester fee |
| freischalten | to activate |
| die Einführungswoche | orientation week |
| die Fachschaft | student union of a department |
| das Tutorium | tutorial (small study group) |
| der Betrug | fraud, scam |
| die Sprechstunde | office hours |
Useful expressions
| German | English |
|---|---|
| Seien Sie vorsichtig bei … | Be careful with … |
| Ich wünsche Ihnen einen guten Start! | I wish you a good start! |
Grammar in this recording
Relative clause with a preposition
„bei denen“ refers back to „Anzeigen“ (plural, dative).
- Seien Sie aber vorsichtig bei Anzeigen, bei denen man schon vor der Besichtigung Geld überweisen soll.
Structuring a talk
„Zuerst … Zweitens … Drittens …“ helps listeners follow a list of points.
- Zweitens: Die Einführungswoche beginnt morgen um neun Uhr im Audimax.
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 15 % against the script on 9 October 2026. Some differences come from the small recognition model, not the audio.
- Human review
- Not yet reviewed by a human editor.
- Version
- Version 1, updated 9 October 2026
Pronunciation not yet reviewed by a person
Synthetic voices can stress or pronounce individual words unnaturally. If something sounds wrong, trust the transcript and tell us via the contact page.