B2 · 25 words
Emil starts his own business
Emil is tired of riding for an app, so he founds his own bike courier service. Learn to talk about self-employment - customers, orders, invoices, income and risk - and about the freedom and the worries that come with it.
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Bruno
Emil! Du bist jetzt selbstständig?
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Translation
Emil! You're self-employed now?
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Emil
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Translation
See! A small business, but at last I'm standing on my own two feet.
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Words and Phrases
- die Selbstständigkeit self-employment
- der Auftrag order
- der Auftraggeber client
- die Auftraggeberin client
- die Einnahme income
- die Ausgabe expense
- das Unternehmen company
- die Gründung founding
- die Buchhaltung bookkeeping
- das Honorar fee
- der Freiberufler freelancer
- die Freiberuflerin freelancer
- die Existenz livelihood
- die Kundschaft customers
- die Freiheit freedom
- werben to advertise
- abrechnen to invoice
- freiberuflich freelance
- eigenverantwortlich independent
- auf eigenen Beinen stehen to stand on one's own two feet
- das Risiko risk
- gründen to found
- riskant risky
- selbstständig self-employed
- der Kunde customer
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