A first title in season two | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

Today's story: The Golden State Valkyries win their first WNBA title. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in German: Golden State Valkyries gewinnen ersten WNBA-Titel
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(01:34) Today's headline, slowly
(02:19) Winning a game
(02:57) A first Game 7
(03:40) Points in one half
(04:25) Today's grammar point
(04:56) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
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TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT
Golden State Valkyries gewinnen ersten WNBA-Titel
Am Samstag besiegten die Golden State Valkyries die Atlanta Dream mit 68:63.
Es war das erste siebte Spiel in der Geschichte der WNBA.
Gabby Williams machte für Golden State 30 Punkte.
28 davon machte sie in der zweiten Halbzeit.
Die Valkyries gewannen ihren ersten Titel in ihrer zweiten Saison.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (besiegten)
- vocabulary (erste)
- verb (machen)
- vocabulary (davon)
- vocabulary (zweiten Saison)
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