Listening · B1
Eine Lerngruppe planen
Two students talk about their term papers, exams and when to meet in the library.
B1Planning a study group59 s6 questions
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Vocabulary
| German | English |
|---|---|
| die Hausarbeit | term paper |
| die Abgabe | submission (deadline) |
| die Klausur | written exam |
| die Lerngruppe | study group |
| reservieren / buchen | to book |
| die Literatur | literature, sources |
Useful expressions
| German | English |
|---|---|
| Ehrlich gesagt … | To be honest … |
| Das passt mir. | That suits me. |
| Danke, dass du dich darum kümmerst! | Thanks for taking care of it! |
Grammar in this recording
Infinitive clause after an adjective
„Es ist leichter, … zu …“: the infinitive with zu goes to the end.
- Zusammen ist es leichter, motiviert zu bleiben.
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 12 % against the script on 9 October 2026. Some differences come from the small recognition model, not the audio.
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- Version 1, updated 9 October 2026
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