Today's story: Zheng Qinwen reaches in the United States the quarter-finals. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it.

Today's headline in German: Zheng Qinwen erreicht in den USA das Viertelfinale

(00:00) Welcome and today's headline

(00:39) Three more stories today

(01:58) Today's headline, slowly

(02:49) The verb gewinnen

(03:43) One after another

(04:26) Earlier time

(05:29) The story again

The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:

https://linguawire.com/class/german/a1/2026-09-08

TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT

Zheng Qinwen erreicht in den USA das Viertelfinale

Zheng Qinwen gewinnt das Spiel in drei Sätzen nach einem 0:5-Rückstand.

Im ersten Satz liegt sie schon mit 0:5 zurück.

Dann gewinnt sie sieben Spiele in Folge.

Das Spiel endet 7-5, 6-3.

Zwei Tage vorher hat sie schon Madison Keys geschlagen.

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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES

- verb (gewinnen)

- vocabulary (zurück)

- vocabulary (in Folge)

- vocabulary (endet)

- numbers (vorher)

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