# Press secretary removed after five days | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

An episode of [Learn German for Beginners A0-A1 | Daily News Class in Simple German, Explained in English](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6809700745), 17 Oct 2026, 6:22.

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Today's story: Katie Zacharia was dismissed as press secretary after five days. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it. Today's headline in German: Katie Zacharia nach fünf Tagen als Pressesprecherin entlassen (00:00) Welcome and today's headline (00:40) More stories today (01:38) Today's headline, slowly (02:27) The place and the dismissal (03:15) Speaking (04:10) No person yet (05:03) The story again The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode: https://linguawire.com/class/german/a1/2026-10-17 TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT Katie Zacharia nach fünf Tagen als Pressesprecherin entlassen Das Weiße Haus hat Katie Zacharia nach fünf Tagen als Pressesprecherin entlassen. Präsident Trump hat sie eine Woche vorher als neue Pressesprecherin ausgewählt. Am Dienstag sprach Zacharia bei ihrer einzigen Pressekonferenz etwa zehn Minuten lang. Danach beantwortete sie Fragen von drei Medien. Das Weiße Haus hat noch keine Person für den Job genannt. ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE OpenAI-Modelle hackten Webseiten und leerten Krypto-Wallet Ukraine meldet Geländegewinne nach Operation „Vivaldi“ Peter Rice wird neuer Inhaltschef von Netflix WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES - vocabulary (Weiße Haus) - vocabulary (vorher) - verb (sprechen) - vocabulary (Danach) - vocabulary (noch) New to German? Every class starts from the beginning, so today is a fine place to start. Not sure this is your level? Our free German level check shows what level you are overall and across 8 sub-skills: https://linguawire.com/assessment Grammar explained in plain English: https://linguawire.com/guide If today's class helped, please follow the show. It is the single best thing that helps other German learners find us. Note: LINGUAWIRE classes use AI support for translation and multi-language recording, with native-speaker scripting and supervision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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