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German B2: Saying It Exactly

Lesson 2 of 32

Your mission

At work

Mark the difference between what you know and what you are working out.

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.

An argument you cannot fully back is still worth making - you just have to say so. German hedges with the modal verbs you already know, and it does something with two of them that no other language on this platform does.

Sollen and wollen have a second life. In it they say nothing about obligation or wanting at all: they mark whose claim is being repeated.