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German B2: Saying It Exactly

Lesson 1 of 32

Your mission

Holding your side of a discussion

Grant what the other person said and keep your own position anyway.

You should be able to do this without preparation, and adjust when the conversation turns.

  • B2
  • About 18 minutes
  1. 01Learn5 activities

Activity 01 · Orientation

Build the idea

Start with the essential idea and connect it to language you can use.

At B1 you could state a position. At B2 you have to hold one while somebody argues back, and that turns on a single move: grant their point, then keep your own.

German has three words for that move and they mean the same thing. What differs is the syntax, and getting the syntax wrong is what makes an otherwise good argument read as a beginner's.