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Campus Talk: Prüfungsangst
A podcast interview with a counsellor about when exam nerves become a problem and what can help.
B2Campus Talk: exam anxiety1 min 09 s6 questions
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Vocabulary
| German | English |
|---|---|
| die Prüfungsangst | exam anxiety |
| die Beratungsstelle | counselling service |
| sich wiedererkennen | to recognise oneself |
| sich etwas vornehmen | to plan to do something |
| simulieren | to simulate |
| begrenzt | limited |
Useful expressions
| German | English |
|---|---|
| sich Unterstützung holen | to get support |
| Das stimmt aber nicht. | But that isn't true. |
Grammar in this recording
so … dass (consequence)
„so stark, dass …“ expresses a consequence.
- wenn die Angst so stark ist, dass man nicht mehr schlafen kann
Konjunktiv I after „denken“
„sie seien“ reports what others think.
- Viele denken, sie seien die Einzigen mit diesem Problem.
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 9 % against the script on 9 October 2026. Some differences come from the small recognition model, not the audio.
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- Version
- Version 1, updated 9 October 2026
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