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Rainer meets his roommate - Intermediate German with Herr Antrim #18
I talked with my roommate today
and I interviewed him for you.
Now you can learn a bit about him.
Rainer: Ok. Introduce yourself (Used wrong pronoun, IDIOT!).
What’s your name? How old are you? And so on.
Roommate: Hello, everyone. I am Dave.
I am twenty-seven years old. And I have been living for a few years in Berlin.
I am studying there at the Humboldt University.
Rainer: What do you study, I mean what is your major?
Roommate: I study musicology and am in my second year of my course of studies towards a bachelor’s degree.
Rainer: Why did you choose this major?
Roommate: Well, since my childhood, I have love music above all else.
And as a result this discipline was very close to me.
What are you studying?
Rainer: I’m not studying yet.
I would like to live in Berlin for a while first,
before I apply for a university.
I would like to find a job first.
What is your dream job?
What would you like to do, when you graduate?
Roommate: When I am done with my studies, I would like to work as a musical journalist.
That would be a lot of fun.
Rainer: What do you like to do in your free time?
Roommate: In my free time, I meet up with friends,
I also like to go to the movies or to concerts
and of course, I like to listen to music.
What do you like to do?
Rainer: I like to read and visit museums.
I like to watch TV.
I especially like these DC Comic series Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl
and I like to go for walks in the city.
What is your favorite part of Berlin and why?
Roommate: That is a very good question.
I would say my favorite part of Berlin is probably Berlin Mitte,
because you get to see a lot of interesting places of interest.
For example the Brandenburg Gate.
And that alone is worth a visit.
Rainer: We should probably talk about our apartment, right?
Roommate: Yeah, of course. Gladly. What would you like to talk about first?
Rainer: Are there special rules for the apartment?
Roommate: Very important of course is the nighttime peace at 22 o’clock (10 pm).
Then we have to be especially quiet.
Apart from that Sunday is a day of peace.
We can have pets,
for example dogs or cats.
And twice a week we have to clean the staircase.
Rainer: And how is it with the cleaning in the apartment?
Do we have a cleaning plan for that or do we just clean when something is dirty?
Roommate: I would recommend that we simply rotate with the shared rooms.
That means that one week you clean.
The week after that I clean.
And then you again. And then I again.
I think, that is the fairest and simplest. What do you think?
Rainer: Which rooms count as “shared rooms”?
Roommate: The bathroom, the kitchen, the living room, the balcony and the entry hallway.
Rainer: I would prefer if we both cleaned every week.
I could do the kitchen and the bathroom one week
and you the living room and the balcony.
Then we can switch the rooms in the next week.
Roommate: We of course, also have to take out the trash regularly.
And of course also not forget to separate the trash.
That means, to store plastic trash and residual waste separate from each other.
The trash cans are directly in front of the apartment entrance, by the way.
Rainer: We pay for the trash pick-up already with the rent, right?
Roommate: Yes. That is correct. That is included in the extra costs.
Rainer: And we still have to pay the electric, yes?
Roommate: Exactly. We have to pay the electric, too. We have to see how we split that up.
Rainer: Wouldn’t it be easier if I give you my half of the rent, electric bill, telephone bill, and internet bill every month
and you can send it on to Trixi and the appropriate companies?
Roommate: Of course. We can do it that way, too.
You just have to transfer the money to me by the 28th at the latest, so that I can pass it along on the 1st.
It would be best, I think, if we arrange a small contract for that
and besides that we should also take care of the household and personal effects insurance.
We should combine that.
Rainer: Agreed. What about the purchases?
Do we shop together and share everything
or just a portion of it;
or do we each shop for ourselves.
I know friends that shop together and share everything,
others shop together,
but differentiate between shared parts and personal parts of the purchase;
and still others shop separately.
Roommate: Hmmm. I would recommend a mix of that.
I, for example, really like pineapple, but I know that many people don’t like it very much.
And things like that I would prefer to buy for myself.
Everything else that we both like, we can buy together and share.
Rainer: Good. Then everything is agreed.
Roommate: Actually not. I have a girlfriend.
Is she allowed to come over anytime or do we have to discuss it each time?
Rainer: It depends if I like her or not.
If she is annoying, she can only come in when we have talked about it first…
ha ha ha... just kidding…
I don’t care.
Roommate: Alright. Super.
And if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend he or she is of course also allowed to come over. That’s understood.
Ok. What do we do now?
Roommate: Well, I am hungry.
But I don’t have anything in the apartment.
We could go down to the subway station. There is a Döner Kebab stand there. What do you think?
Rainer: Of course. (gets up and leaves)
Roommate: Alright. Then we’re off. (stands up and leaves)
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