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• Students in Freiburg: Looking for Housing (#101)

  Topics include personal pronouns; the present tense; and definite, indefinite, negative indefinite, and possessive articles. [26 minutes]

• A Nuremberg Morning: Heading to Work (#102)

  Topics include subject, verb, and verb complement; the basic rule-- the verb is never third. [26 minutes]

• Shopping In Hamburg: Prices and Quantities (#103)

  Topics include direct objects; commands; prepositional phrases; plural definite articles, and plural endings. [26 minutes]

• A Vacation Trip: Traffic Jams (#104)

  Topics include 'da' compounds; direct object vs. Dative object; model auxiliaries; separable prefixes; and coordinating conjunctions. [26 minutes]

• Apartment Hunting: Rent & Other Details (#105)

  Topics include "für" preposition; the dative verb "gefallen;" adjectives following "der" words [26 minutes]

• A Munich Wedding: Soccer & Newlyweds (#106)

  Topics include the simple past tense; the present perfect tense, and the future tense. [26 minutes]

• Skiing In Austria: Skiers New & Old (#107)

  Topics include adjectives not preceded by 'der' words; possessive articles; personal pronouns as direct objects; past tense modals; and reflexives. [26 minutes]

• Ballooning in Bavaria: Ludwig's Castles (#108)

  Topics include the subordinate clause; subordinate clauses beginning with question words; separable prefix verbs; and the present perfect. [26 minutes]

• Hamburg Forgetfulness: The Postal System (#109)

  Topics include a review of tenses of regular verbs, and accusative and dative objects. [26 minutes]

• A Rhine Falls Outing: A Lost Wallet (#110)

  Topics include ordinal numbers; common time expressions; the two-way prepositions 'an' and 'auf'; and the dative prepositions 'mit' and 'zu'. [26 minutes]

• A Village Fair: Young Love (#111)

  Topics include a review of adjective endings and the dative prepositions 'mit' and 'zu'; and the contraction 'zum'. [26 minutes]

• A Cologne Visit: Carnival Confusion (#112)

  Topics include the verbs "brauchen" and "möchten;" dative preposition "seit;" infinitive clauses [26 minutes]

• Vacation Dreams: Helping with the Hops (#113)

  Topics include relative clauses; relative pronouns and prepositions; the comparative and 'als'; and the verb 'wissen'. [26 minutes]

• A Salzburg Outing: Family Differences (#114)

  Topics include a review of modals and separable prefix verbs; the present perfect and separable prefix verbs; and the subjunctive verb form "würden" [27 minutes]

• Hamburg Birthday: Flowering Confusion (#115)

  Topics include a review of the modals "dürfen," "können," and "müssen," and "mit" and "zu;" polite requests and the subjunctive [26 minutes]

• Elections In Koenigsein: Campaigning (#116)

  Topics include conjugating "hätte" and "wäre;" contrary-to-fact clauses and the subjunctive [26 minutes]

• Opera In Munich: Ticket Troubles (#117)

  Topics include the indicative vs. The subjunctive; subordinate clauses preceding main clauses; present participle adjectives; the passive voice; and modal subjunctives. [26 minutes]

• Berlin Journalism: Getting The Story (#118)

  The genitive case; review: contrary-to-fact clauses, the present perfect tense of irregular verbs, and dative and accusative prepositions. [26 minutes]

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