| Michael: | Na? Wie geht’s dir heute? |
| Jana: | Mir geht es super! Und dir? |
| Michael: | Mir geht es so lala. |
| Jana: | Oh, alles okay? Bist du krank? Everything OK? Are you sick? |
| Michael: | Nein. Ich bin gesund. I simply ate too much chocolate. |
| Jana: | Oh nein! Liebst du Schokolade so sehr? |
| Michael: | Nein. It was my birthday, and there was just too much sweet stuff. |
| Jana: | Oh, alles Gute zum Geburtstag! Happy Birthday! That must’ve been a great party. |
| Michael: | Danke! It was a little too much fun. |
| Jana: | Well, you’ve just given me the perfect opportunity to introduce our topic. |
| Michael: | Geburtstage? |
| Jana: | Ja, wir werden über Traditionen reden! We will talk about traditions, and practice using questions that can be answered with a Ja oder Nein. Yes or no. |
| Michael: | Ja oder Nein-Fragen. Perfekt. Especially for someone like me, who wants to keep things short and sweet. Keep it simple. |
| Jana: | Und es ist leicht zu lernen! It is easy to learn! Remember we briefly mentioned inversion in Episode 4? It’s quite easy to switch the verb to “position 1” to turn a sentence into a question. |
| Michael: | I have an easy example: Wir lesen die Nachrichten. Lesen wir die Nachrichten? |
