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This morning, I needed to make two vet appointments for my cats. I’m an American in Switzerland, so that means I need to make a phone call in German. No problem. I’ve lived here for almost 16 years and I have a
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nbsp;B2 German certificate. A B2 means—or should mean—that “I can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible. I can take an active part in discussion in familiar cont
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xts, accounting for and sustaining my views.” With that definition, picking up the phone and saying, “Ich möchte Kontrolltermine für meine Katzen vereinbaren,” (I’d like to make check-up