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Five billion dollars for US startups | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News
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Episode Five billion dollars for US startups | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News
Today's story: JPMorgan invests $5 billion in young companies in the US. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in German: JPMorgan investiert fünf Milliarden Dollar in junge Firmen in den USA
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:38) More stories today
(01:38) Today's headline, slowly
(02:31) Investment in young companies
(03:03) Supply chains and work areas
(04:09) Direct investment
(04:57) Today's grammar point
(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/a1/2026-10-20
TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT
JPMorgan investiert fünf Milliarden Dollar in junge Firmen in den USA
Im ersten Jahr des Programms hat JPMorgan Chase fünf Milliarden Dollar in junge Firmen in den USA investiert.
Das Programm unterstützt Firmen aus den Bereichen Verteidigung, Produktion und Lieferketten.
Die Bank wollte in zehn Jahren zehn Milliarden Dollar investieren.
Die Bank investierte direkt in Hadrian und Castelion.
Im August half die Bank bei einer Finanzierungsrunde für Hadrian über 1,4 Milliarden Dollar.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (investiert)
- vocabulary (Lieferketten)
- vocabulary (wollte)
- vocabulary (direkt)
- verb (helfen)
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