Show Notes
Episode four of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. News is obsessed with counting, today you unlock the big numbers: hundert, tausend, and the famous German habit of gluing whole numbers into single mega-words. Plus the two words for people and the crowd vocabulary of every protest story. Today's sentence: Mehr als zehntausend Menschen sind bei der Demonstration in der Hauptstadt.
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