Unit 04 · Getting around

Your train is delayed. Ask for another connection and the platform.

Unit 4 takes you out the door: buying tickets, riding buses and trains, finding your way through town, checking into a hotel and handling delays.

with two-way prepositions: Wo? + Dativ vs. Wohin? + Akkusativ — location or destination
mit dem Bus, nach Hause vs. zu Hause, and the prepositions with a fixed case
the imperative for giving and following directions
signs and station announcements (Durchsagen)

Checkpoint: a full Hören run in the listening simulator.

10 topics

Henry

Scott Mountenay

Your path through this unit

Step 1 of 2

Initial review

Take a first look at each topic and tick Mark as read once you have the general idea.

By bus and train

Buying tickets

Where to? Where? — two-way prepositions

Always dative: mit, zu, von, bei

durch, für, gegen, ohne, um: always accusative

Places in town

Asking the way

At the hotel

Problems on the way

Exam: listening

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