B: So, you‘re asking why I chose to commute?
B: WARUM1*
B: warum
C: Why didn‘t you stay at the boarding school but chose to commute?
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: [MG]
B: Well, I commuted to school because we were living quite close to my school.
B: WARUM1*
B: warum
B: HIN-UND-HER1
B: ICH1
B: WEIL1
B: weil
B: wohnen
B: WOHNUNG5*
B: ICH2
B: NAHE1B*
B: I lived only 20 minutes away; so, I chose to commute back and forth.
B: $INDEX1
B: $GEST^
B: WOHNUNG5*
B: wohnen
B: NAHE1B*
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:2d*
B: zwanzig
B: MINUTE1*
B: minute
B: HIN-UND-HER1
B: You know commuting, do you?
B: KENNEN1A*
B: [MG]
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: How so?
A: WIE-FRAGE1*
A: wie
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: I took the train.
A: Did you take the car or the train?
A: ZUG1B*
A: zug
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: ZUG1B*
B: zug
A: ODER4B
A: oder
A: BUS2*
A: bus
A: DU1*
B: I first took the bus downtown to the main station. I then went down to the platforms and took the train. That‘s the way it went down.
B: BUS1A*
B: bus
B: $PROD*
B: UM2B
B: um
B: hauptbahnhof
B: BAHNHOF2*
B: WIEDER1A^
B: BAHNHOF2*
B: $INDEX1
B: ZUG1B*
B: zug
B: [MG]
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: So, you started commuting by train as child when entering first grade?
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: DU1*
A: ERSTENS1A
A: erste
A: klasse
A: KLASSE7
A: KIND2
B: No, I initially took the school bus.
A: DU1*
B: NEIN1A*
A: ZUG1B*
A: zug
B: BUS1A
B: bus
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: schulbus
B: SCHULE1A*
B: BUS1A
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: Sure, I was still pretty young and a bit helpless.
B: KLAR1B
B: klar
B: KLEIN3
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $PROD*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I needed some help with commuting. I did so until fifth grade.
B: HELFEN1*
B: helfen
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: BIS1
B: bis
B: $NUM-EINER1A:5
B: fünfte
B: KLASSE7
B: klasse
B: I then took the train because you had to pay for the bus henceforward.
B: UM1B*
B: zug
B: ZUG1B*
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: GRUND4B*
B: grund
B: bus
B: BUS1A
B: $INDEX1
B: BEZAHLEN1
B: MUSS1A
B: muss
B: I cannot remember how much it was, though.
B: KOSTEN2
B: VERGESSEN1
B: [MG]
B: You had to pay.
B: BEZAHLEN1
B: MUSS1A
B: muss
B: They told me to rather use my disabled person‘s pass.
B: ICH2*
B: ETWAS-PLANEN-UND-UMSETZEN1*
B: $INDEX1
B: ausweis
B: AUF-PERSON1*
B: AUSWEIS1
B: WARUM1*
B: warum
B: NICHT3A*
B: nicht
B: LIEBER1
B: lieber
B: AUSNUTZEN1*
B: ausnutzen
B: As a deaf person I had 100% [degree of disability] in my disabled person’s pass.
B: ICH2
B: $NUM-HUNDERT2*
B: hun{dert}
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1B
B: AUSWEIS1
B: ausweis
B: $NUM-HUNDERT2*
B: hun{dert}
B: PROZENT1
B: prozent
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I mean, why not use that to its full capacity?
B: LIEBER1*
B: lieber
B: ausnutzen
B: AUSNUTZEN1*
B: $INDEX1
B: And so I did eventually ask for a validity stamp and got it.
B: STIMMT1A
B: stimmt
B: $INDEX1||NEHMEN1A*
B: ERFOLG1
B: [MG]
B: MARKE1*
B: wertmarke
B: BEKOMMEN1*
B: bekommen
B: ICH2*
B: So, I rather use my disabled person’s pass, which makes me take the train more and more.
B: LIEBER1*
B: lieber
B: AUSNUTZEN1*
B: ausnutzen
B: AUSWEIS1
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: [MG]
B: MEHR1*
B: [MG]
A: I think it would have been really good for you to stay at the boarding school.
A: ICH2
A: aber
A: DENKEN1A
A: DU1*
A: INTERNAT1B
A: internat
A: BLEIBEN1*
A: GUT3
A: [MG]
A: Because if you were together with the other children at school, you could play. But when everybody went home, what then?
A: WARUM10A*
A: warum
A: ZUSAMMEN1A*
A: KIND2
A: kinder
A: SPIELEN2*
A: spiel spiel
A: HEIM6*
A: heim heim
A: WAS-MACHEN1*
A: was machen
B: The nuns were so exhausting.
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: KRANKENSCHWESTER1
B: schwester
B: SO1*
B: TYPISCH1^*
A: Is that so?
A: $GEST-NM^
B: HART4
A: Was it due to the nuns?
A: GRUND4A*
A: grund
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwester
A: $INDEX1
B: The atmosphere was characterized by rigor.
A: $GEST-NM^
B: SPÜREN1
A: Were the nuns that strict?
B: STRENG2*
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwes{ter}
A: WARUM1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: $INDEX1
A: STRENG2*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
B: Sure, they were really strict after all.
B: $INDEX4
B: STRENG2*
B: SPÜREN1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: Well, I was free, because I lived only twenty minutes away and was able to commute.
B: FREI2A
B: frei
B: WOHNUNG5*
B: wohnen
B: NAHE1B
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:2d*
B: zwanzig
B: minuten
B: MINUTE1*
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: That was child’s play.
B: BANAL1
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: If it had been further away, one, two or three hours, then I would have accepted the boarding school.
B: WENN1*
B: WEIT1*
B: weit
B: STUNDE2B*
B: KLAR1B
B: klar
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1
B: INTERNAT1B*
B: internat
B: AKZEPTIEREN1
B: akzeptieren
B: But only for this short distance? That would have been rubbish.
B: ICH2
B: NAHE1A*
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: $GEST^
B: [MG]
B: schmarrn
B: SCHMARRN1
A: Yes, I get that.
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: ICH2
A: VERSTEHEN1*
A: versteh
A: DA1^
A: $GEST^
A: Me personally/
A: ||SELBST1A
A: selbst
A: It was the same for me. I entered kindergarten at two-and-a-half years old.
A: SELBST1A
A: selbst
A: AUCH1A
A: auch
A: $$EXTRA-LING-MAN^
A: ICH2
A: ANFANG1A*
A: anfang
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: ICH1
A: AUFWACHSEN1A
A: [MG]
A: zwei{ein}halb
A: $NUM-EINER1A:2d
A: KREUZ1A^
A: ALT5A*
A: jahr alt
A: kindergarten
A: KIND2*
A: ICH1
A: ABSETZEN1*
A: I had to stay there to sleep, and those nuns were really strict with us, as well.
A: IMMER4A
A: SCHLAFEN1A*
A: schlafen
A: BLEIBEN1*
A: IMMER4A
A: SEHR6*
A: [MG]
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwester
A: STRENG2
A: [MG]
A: GLEICH8*
A: [MG]
A: You had to eat the food you were given, even if you didn‘t like it at all; we had to eat.
A: ZWANG1
A: ESSEN1*
A: [MG]
A: MUSS1A*
A: muss muss
A: SICH-MIT-ETWAS-ABFINDEN1B
A: BEISPIEL1*
A: beispiel
A: ICH2
A: EKEL4
A: MUSS1A
A: muss
A: ICH2
A: It was quite frustrating to grow up like that.
A: SICH-MIT-ETWAS-ABFINDEN1B
A: ||AUFWACHSEN1A*
A: AUSHALTEN1A^||AUFWACHSEN1B
A: My parents are deaf; they were great, they signed, and when I got home they always gave me everything I wanted.
A: ELTERN1B
A: eltern
A: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1B
A: SUPER2
A: [MG]
A: GEBÄRDEN1E*
A: HEIM6
A: heim
A: ALLES1A*
A: alles
A: BEKOMMEN3*||AUFZÄHLEN1C
A: bekomm bekomm bekomm
A: ETWAS-LIEBEN1*
A: [MG]
A: I always had to think of them, and it really hurt.
A: [MG]
A: ICH1
A: DENKEN1B
A: $INDEX1*
A: ÄRGERN-SICH4^*
A: ICH2
A: When I was growing up, there were no busses one could commute with.
A: ||AUFWACHSEN1A
A: ||PLÖTZLICH4*
A: [MG]
A: REGEL1B^
A: bus
A: BUS2*
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: ES-GIBT3*
A: gibt nicht
A: Those smaller busses for transportation didn’t exist.
A: KLEIN11*
A: klein
A: BUS2*
A: bus
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: TRANSPORT1B
A: transport
A: ES-GIBT3*
A: gibt nicht
A: You were lucky that by the time you started school, those busses were around. That‘s good. They didn‘t have them at the time I went to school.
A: DU1
A: NEU4A
A: neu
A: zeit
A: ZEIT5A*
A: ||DU1
A: bus
A: BUS2*
A: TRANSPORT1B*
A: GUT3*
A: [MG]
A: ICH2
A: NICHT3B*
A: [MG]
A: That‘s why my mother tried everything to make an application for one of those small busses of the ‘Malteser Hilfsdienst’ [catholic aid agency in Germany].
A: DARUM1
A: darum
A: ICH2
A: ELTERN1A*
A: ||AUFWACHSEN1B
A: ||PLÖTZLICH4*
A: [MG]
A: MEIN1
A: MAMA11*
A: mama
A: VERSUCHEN2
A: versuch
A: $GEST-AUFMERKSAMKEIT1^*
A: ANTRAG1B
A: antrag
A: ES-GIBT3
A: gibt
A: AUCH1A*
A: auch
A: BUS2*
A: bus
A: klein
A: KLEIN11*
A: TRANSPORT1B*
A: malteser hilfsdienst
A: $ALPHA1:M
A: $ALPHA1:H
A: KREUZ1C^
A: For those school buses that pick up people with disabilities at home and take them to school, you know?
A: VORSTELLUNG1A*
A: schulbus
A: AUTO1*
A: BUS1B
A: $INDEX1
A: ZUHAUSE1B*
A: UNTERRICHTEN1^*
A: VERSTEHEN1^*
A: VORSTELLUNG1A*
A: $INDEX1
A: behinderten
A: BEHINDERUNG1*
A: SEIN-IHR1*
A: She thought those smaller busses would be a good fit, tried applying for one and it all worked out well.
A: passt
A: PASSEN1
A: ||$INDEX1
A: $GEST-NM^
A: [MG]
A: STIMMT1A
A: stimmt
A: DENKEN1B
A: versuch
A: VERSUCHEN1*
A: ANTRAG1B*
A: RICHTIG1B*
A: ERFOLG1*
A: [MG]
A: So I stayed at the residential school until the end of second grade.
A: ||$NUM-ORD1:2d
A: zwei{te}
A: klasse
A: KLASSE7*
A: ICH2*
A: AUFWACHSEN1B*
A: Finally, with entering third grade, I was able to leave it all behind and commuted to school by myself. I felt so good about it.
A: ||$NUM-ORD1:3d
A: dritte klasse
A: KANN-MAN-VERNACHLÄSSIGEN2^*
A: ICH2
A: [MG]
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: WOHL1
A: There was a full fridge at home from which I was able to freely choose whatever I liked.
A: ICH1*
A: HEIM6
A: heim
A: KÜHLSCHRANK2*
A: kühlschrank
A: stimm
A: STIMMT1A
A: DA1*
A: ||BEMERKENSWERT1*
A: [MG]
A: That was so gross!
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: GEH-WEG1
A: ICH2
A: However, stuff like playing and everything was great.
A: ABER1*
A: aber
A: SPIELEN2*
A: spielen
A: ALLES1A
A: GUT3
A: [MG]
A: The pressure from the nuns was horrible.
A: DURCH2A
A: durch
A: schwester
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: $INDEX1
A: DRUCK-AUF-PERSON1
A: ICH2
A: ||$GEST-NM^*
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: It would have been great without the nuns.
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwester
A: WENN-NICHT-WÄRE1*
A: [MG]
A: ICH2
A: GUT3
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: It was just different back in the days. The nuns were narrow-minded and strict.
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwester
A: ANDERS1
A: anders
A: KONZENTRIEREN1*
A: STRENG2*
A: $INDEX1
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: The way the nuns were educating us was like that, different; one has to respect that, I guess.
A: ERZIEHUNG1A
A: erziehung
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwester
A: ANDERS1*
A: [MG]
A: SEIN-IHR1*
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: That‘s just how that generation was brought up.
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: RESPEKT2
A: SEIN-IHR1*
B: SEIN-IHR1*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: generation
B: GENERATION4*
B: SEIN-IHR1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: You still know it from back in the day. By the time you were in schools there were less and less nuns.
A: ||KENNEN1A^*
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: ZEIT5A*
A: zeit
A: JETZT3*
A: jetzt
A: DU1*
A: WENIG7A
A: [MG]
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwester
A: WENIG7A
A: When I was there, there were plenty of nuns around.
A: früher
A: FRÜHER1*
A: ICH2
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwester
A: ICH2*
A: GROSS7
A: [MG]
A: Because there were less nuns around, you had an advantage; you were more carefree.
A: VERRINGERN1C^
A: [MG]
A: VORTEIL1
A: [MG]
A: DU1*
A: LUFT3A*
A: UNGEFÄHR1^*
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: You had it much easier than me.
A: ORAL1^
A: so
A: LEICHT1*
A: leicht
A: $INDEX1
A: I had a tough time back then.
B: It‘s still the same, though.
A: ||FRÜHER1*
A: früher
B: noch
B: JETZT3*
A: hart
A: ||HART1D^*
B: NOCH4A*
B: JETZT3*
A: ||ICH2
B: noch
B: NOCH4A*
B: $INDEX1
A: It was really tough back in the days.
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: HART1D^*
A: hart
A: ICH2
A: Seriously.
A: ||EHRLICH1*
A: ehrlich
A: LASSEN1^*
A: They at times tweaked your ear as punishment; I‘ll never forget.
A: $PROD*
A: ICH2
A: $GEST-NM^
A: ||VERGESSEN1*
A: nicht vergessen
A: ||ICH2
A: Well, whatever.
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
A: egal
C: Were you bullied at boarding school when you first came there? Did you look forward to going home or did you rather enjoy staying at school? What was it like for you?
A: What it was like, with the bullying of the boarders and commuters? Well.
A: ICH2*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: ICH2*
A: PFUI1
A: [MG]
A: KIND2
A: internat
A: INTERNAT1A*
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: [MG]
A: Some students really wanted to go home, others, however, wanted to stay.
A: AUCH1A
A: auch
A: TEIL1B
A: teil
A: zum beispiel
A: ICH2
A: BEISPIEL1*
A: ||$INDEX1
A: [MG]
A: SCHAFFEN1A
A: schaffen
A: HEIM6
A: heim
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: [MG]
A: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A*
A: ICH2
A: BLEIBEN1*
A: bleiben
A: It‘s hard to tell whether they wanted to stay because of their parents or for other reasons, you don’t really know that.
A: ABER1*
A: aber
A: $INDEX1
A: ZOOM1^*
A: WARUM1
A: warum
A: ELTERN1B
A: el{tern}
A: ABHÄNGIG3*
A: abhängig
A: ODER5
A: oder
A: BLEIBEN1*
A: bleiben
A: EINTRETEN1A^*
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: I was sure that one person would also be able to commute.
A: ICH2
A: [MG]
A: VERWIRRT-SEIN1*
A: ICH2
A: ||$INDEX1
A: schaffen
A: SCHAFFEN1A*
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: So I told them, “I watched TV until 10pm last night! You probably didn’t, did you?”
A: ICH2
A: BESCHEID1A*
A: GEWESEN1*
A: gewesen
A: WAS1B*
A: was
A: ICH2
A: ich habe
A: VERGANGENHEIT1^*
A: gestern
A: fußball
A: FUSSBALL2
A: ZUSCHAUEN1*
A: ICH2
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: $NUM-UHR1B:10*
A: zehn uhr
A: schlaf
A: SCHLAFEN1A*
A: ICH2
A: ||DU1*
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: [MG]
A: That stuck with that person, and from seventh or eighth grade on he also commuted.
A: $INDEX1
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFWIPPEN1^
A: [MG]
A: $NUM-ORD1:7d
A: siebte
A: $NUM-ORD1:8d
A: achte
A: KLASSE7
A: klasse
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: auch
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: It was different for everyone.
A: UNTERSCHIED1C*
A: There surely was a bit of bullying.
B: It depended on the students.
A: PFUI1
A: [MG]
B: ab{hängig} abhängig
B: ABHÄNGIG4
A: BISSCHEN2A
A: [MG]
A: PFUI1
A: [MG]
B: PERSON1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: Right, it was a little bit like that.
A: BISSCHEN2A
A: [MG]
A: PFUI1
A: [MG]
A: BISSCHEN2A
A: $GEST^
C: There wasn‘t anything alike at the time you went there, though?
B: I guess that’s normal.
B: KLAR1A*
B: klar
B: NORMAL1*
B: normal
B: No, no one was bullied while I was there.
B: [MG]
B: ICH2
B: PFUI1
B: NICHTS1B*
B: NICHT1*
B: My class wasn’t really with the boarders a lot.
B: FRÜHER1*
B: früher
B: ZUSAMMEN1A*
B: zusammen
B: NICHT3A*
B: VIEL1A
B: viel
B: internat
B: INTERNAT1B*
B: NICHT3A
B: MANNSCHAFT1^*
B: NICHT3A
C: Everyone was commuting?
B: All students from my class commuted, yes.
B: ICH2
B: KLASSE5*
B: klasse
B: AB1A^
B: alle
B: [MG]
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: It changed in the course of the modernization.
A: NEU1A*
A: neu neu neu neu
B: That‘s the reason.
B: DESHALB1*
B: [MG]
A: ENTWICKELN1A
B: It all changed for the better.
A: ÄNDERN1
A: [MG]
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX1
B: ENTWICKELN1A*
B: BESSER1*
B: [MG] besser
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: Compared to the past, the train connection have improved as well; that‘s another reason.
B: zugverbindung
B: ZUG1B*
B: VERBINDUNG1
B: SEHR2
B: [MG]
B: FRÜHER1*
B: früher
B: MITTELMÄSSIG1
B: [MG]
B: DESHALB1*
B: [MG]
A: The bus connections now cover destinations as far away as one hour.
A: AUCH1A
A: auch
A: STUNDE2B*
A: eine stunde
A: BUS1A
A: bus
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: We didn‘t have that back in the days; the furthest destination was half an hour away.
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: STUNDE2B*
A: eine stunde
A: ES-GIBT3*
A: gibt nicht
A: NUR2B
A: nur
A: halbe stunde
A: HALBE-STUNDE1
A: FERTIG4
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: One needs to think about that, that‘s right.
A: AUSGERECHNET1A
A: GEWISSEN1^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: ||STIMMT1A*
A: stimmt
A: Things were quite different in the past compared to today. Time has changed the things a little.
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: HEUTE1*
A: heute
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: HEUTE1
A: heute
A: ANDERS3*
A: anders anders
A: ENTWICKELN1A*
A: BISSCHEN1B
A: bisschen
A: ZEIT1*
A: zeit
A: VERÄNDERN1A
A: [MG]
A: It will change drastically in the future when beaming is possible.
A: ZUKUNFT2*
A: zukunft
A: ZUSAMMEN5^*
B: Possibly.
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: möglich
B: MÖGLICH1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: $GEST-NM^
A: Just the idea of that being possible is amazing to me.
A: ||STIMMT1^*
A: wenn
A: ||BEMERKENSWERT1*
A: [MG]
B: It would be even better to have something like in J-U-M-P-E-R.
B: PERFEKT1*
B: [MG]
A: One would be able to quickly teleport to a friend to copy the homework, and then back to school.
B: $ALPHA1:J-M-P-E-R
B: jumper
A: HAUSAUFGABE1*
A: hausaufgabe
A: WAS1B*
A: was
A: WIE-FRAGE-VERGLEICH1*
A: wie
A: ZUSAMMEN5^*
A: HAUSAUFGABE1*
A: hausaufgabe [MG]
A: ZUSAMMEN5^*
A: ||$PROD*
A: WAS1B*
B: One could just go anywhere.
A: $INDEX1*
B: [MG]
B: ALLE1A^*
B: FREI4^*
A: What an advantage!
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: VORTEIL1
A: [MG]
C: What was good and what wasn‘t so good during your time at school? Would you mind telling me about it?
A: You mean throughout my entire schooldays?
A: SCHULE1A
A: schule
C: Were your schooldays completely great or not? What about the classes: were they fun? Was it rather oral-oriented? What didn’t you like, and did you experience anything particularly bad?
A: ICH1*
A: GESAMT1C*
B: My experiences were rather bad, personally.
B: SELBST1A
B: selbst
B: SCHLECHT1*
B: schlecht
B: erfahrung
B: ERFAHRUNG6B
B: ICH1
A: It‘s about the entirety of your schooldays; how you perceived school from the beginning on.
B: selbst
B: SELBST1A*
A: DEIN1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: SCHULE1A
A: schule
A: AUFWACHSEN1A
A: GESAMT1C
A: It was really horrible for me because the nuns didn‘t use sign language at all. They only spoke orally to us.
A: SELBST1A
A: selbst
A: [MG]
A: ICH2
A: $GEST-NM^
A: $LIST1:1of1d
A: GEBÄRDENSPRACHE1A
A: gebärdensprache
A: ||NULL6A
A: null
A: ||NUR2B
A: nur
A: $GEST-NM-SPRECHEN1^
A: [MG]
A: That was the hardest thing for me.
A: ||SO4*
A: so
A: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
A: eins
A: HART2
A: hart
A: ||$INDEX1
A: SEHR-VIEL2*
A: [MG]
A: And the nuns were so strict, that was horrible.
A: $LIST1:2of2d
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1
A: schwester
A: $GEST-NM^||$NUM-EINER1A:2d
A: [MG]
A: Additionally, we had to attend church every Wednesday, that was mandatory.
A: $LIST1:3of3d
A: KIRCHE2A
A: kirche
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: [MG]
A: MITTWOCH6
A: mittwoch
A: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
A: ein
A: WOCHE2
A: woche
A: MUSS1A*
A: muss muss muss
A: I had to endure it; it was so boring.
A: ICH1
A: SICH-MIT-ETWAS-ABFINDEN1B
A: ICH2*
A: $GEST^
A: All due to the priest.
A: WARUM1*
A: warum
A: SELBST1A*
A: selbst
A: pfarrer
A: PFARRER1*
A: BETEN1B^
A: $INDEX1
A: His preaching was exclusively oral.
A: BETEN1B^
A: priester
A: BETEN1B^
A: pfarrer
A: $INDEX1
A: WAS1A*
A: ORAL1*
A: oral oral oral oral
A: I could hardly keep my eyes open.
A: ICH1
A: $GEST^
A: We completely missed the content, even though it was projected onto the wall. I just wasn’t interested, it was just too dull.
A: ICH2
A: ETWAS-NICHT-MITBEKOMMEN1
A: [MG]
A: BEAMER1*
A: beam beam beam
A: ||ICH2
A: ||$GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
A: [MG]
A: ||BEAMER1
A: beamer
A: ||ICH2
A: ETWAS-NICHT-MITBEKOMMEN1
A: [MG]
A: That was really hard.
A: $LIST1:3of3d
A: HART2
A: hart
A: $LIST1:3of3d
A: However, the time we spent together was wonderful.
A: GESAMT1C*
A: ABER1*
A: aber
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: ZEIT5A*
A: zeit
A: schön
A: SCHÖN1A*
A: ZUSAMMEN1A*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: I mean, when we were playing together. It was great.
A: UNTER1B^*
A: SPIELEN2
A: spiel
A: ||FORT1^*
A: GESAMT1C*
A: [MG]
A: TOLL1A*
A: SYMPATHISCH1^
A: [MG]
A: SUPER2*
A: [MG]
A: Those are positive memories.
A: ICH2
A: POSITIV1
A: [MG]
A: The only thing that went to far was all those orally-oriented methods.
A: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
A: nur
A: EINZIG1*
A: einzig
A: WAS1B*
A: was
A: oral
A: ORAL1*
A: $INDEX1*
A: It really dragged me down.
A: MACHEN1*
A: macht
A: ICH1
A: mich
A: $GEST^
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: Therefore, my education was rather mediocre.
A: BILDUNG1*
A: bildung
A: ICH2
A: MITTELMÄSSIG1*
A: [MG]
A: I probably could have achieved more, but I was only a middle-rate student because I really wasn’t motivated in class.
A: kann
A: KANN2B
A: ICH2
A: MEHR5
A: mehr
A: MITTELMÄSSIG1*
A: [MG]
A: DURCH2A
A: durch
A: UNTERRICHTEN1*
A: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: That‘s the only thing I find really sad.
A: schade
A: ||SCHADE1*
A: $INDEX1
A: einzig
A: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
A: EINZIG1
A: FERTIG1A
A: What about you?
A: ||DU1
A: [MG]
A: ||WIE7B*
B: Back then, the teachers used the oral method to teach us, as well.
B: WAR1
A: ||DU1*
B: LEHRER1*
B: lehrer
B: PERSON1*
B: $INDEX1
B: ORAL1*
B: oral
B: By the former deputy headmaster who is now the schoolmaster. You know who I mean? #Name1?
B: DURCH2A
B: durch
B: DIREKTOR3A
B: $NUM-ORD1:2d
B: zw{eite}
B: JETZT3*
B: jetzt
B: $NUM-ORD1:1d
B: DIREKTOR3A
B: $INDEX1
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: [MG]
A: Mister #Name1.
A: #name1
B: #Name1, that‘s right. Yes, he‘s an opponent of sign language; he hated sign language.
B: #name1
B: $INDEX1
B: JA2*
B: $INDEX1
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: FEIND1A*
B: feind
B: $INDEX1
B: HASSEN1
B: hass
B: There were some rumors about it, and then I found out myself that one wasn’t allowed to sign with him.
B: GERÜCHT1*
B: [MG]
B: erfahren
B: ERFAHREN1B
B: GERÜCHT1*
B: LEHRER3*
B: lehrer
B: auch
B: AUCH1A
B: BESCHEID1A*
B: $INDEX1
B: DARF-NICHT1*
B: darf nicht
B: $INDEX1
B: Most of my classmates would sign and speak a little when he wasn’t there.
B: $INDEX1
B: MEISTENS1A*
B: meist
B: nicht da
B: DA-NICHT1
B: LEER1*
B: NUR2A
B: nur
B: KLASSE5*
B: kla{sse}
B: KLASSE1*
B: $INDEX1
B: GEBÄRDEN1E
B: [MG]
B: ETWAS4*
B: etwas
B: GEBÄRDEN1E*
B: [MG]
B: SPRECHEN2*
B: GEBÄRDEN1E
B: When he came, the entire class started speaking. I was a bit startled.
B: KOMMEN1*
B: SPRECHEN5*
B: [MG]
B: ICH2
B: $GEST^
B: As soon as he was there, everything had to be changed: everyone had to speak.
B: $PROD*
B: wegen
B: GRUND4B*
B: PERSON1*
B: $PROD*
B: SPRECHEN5*
B: [MG]
B: ÄNDERN1*
A: Everybody has to follow the rules of the principle.
A: MUSS1A*
A: muss
A: DIREKTOR2
A: direktor
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: Those were his rules.
B: DIREKTOR2
A: FOLGEN1A*
A: folgen
B: PERSON1
A: REGEL1D
B: SEIN-IHR1
A: $INDEX1*
B: REGEL1A*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: It‘s far too extreme to oppress the deaf students like that.
B: SEHEN1*
B: ÜBERTREIBEN1*
B: übertrieben
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1B*
B: UNTERDRÜCKEN1A
B: WIE4A*
B: wie
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: Where‘s the will to communicate then?
B: ICH2*
B: WAHRNEHMUNG1^*
B: WO1A
B: wo
B: BLEIBEN3
B: bleibt
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: Even discussions can be understood using sign language only.
B: AUCH1A
B: auch
B: DISKUSSION1A*
B: GEBÄRDEN1E
B: [MG]
B: ICH2*
B: BEOBACHTEN6*
B: WAS-BEDEUTET1
B: was
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: Hearing people might have some advantages because they get the acoustic input.
B: $PROD*
B: HÖREN1B^
B: hören
B: VORTEIL1*
B: vor{teil}
B: HÖREN1B^
B: ZUHÖREN1
B: VORTEIL1
B: vorteil
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: That‘s the only thing that really sucked.
B: NUR2B*
B: nur
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
B: ein
B: MIST2A
B: mist
B: [MG]
B: FERTIG1A*
A: Did you have to go to church, too?
A: DU1*
A: du
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: kirche
A: KIRCHE2A
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: Yes, two times a week.
A: AUCH1A
A: auch
B: KIRCHE2A
B: kirche
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: DU1*
B: STIMMT1A*
B: [MG]
B: ICH1
B: WOCHE1A*
B: eine woche
B: zweimal
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2d
B: ACHTUNG1A^*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2d*
B: WOCHE1A*
B: [MG]
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2d
B: zweimal
A: That‘s completely overdoing it!
A: ÜBERTREIBEN1*
A: übertreiben
B: Well, it was part of/
A: $INDEX1
B: KREUZ1A^*
A: Half an hour or one hour?
A: STUNDE2B*
A: eine stunde
B: INHALT3*
A: HALBE-STUNDE1*
A: halbe stunde
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
A: DU1*
B: No, no, it was one hour of classes, and then later on another hour there.
B: NEIN1A
B: ||STUNDE2B*
B: eine stunde
B: FERTIG1A*
B: SPÄTER10
B: NOCHMAL2B
B: noch mal
B: eine stunde
B: STUNDE2B*
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
A: Oh, my religious education was the same.
B: SEIN-IHR1
A: DU1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
A: ICH1*
A: auch
A: UNTERRICHTEN1*
A: unterricht
A: religion
A: RELIGION2B
A: GLEICH1C^
A: We had two sessions of two hours as well.
A: ICH1
A: STUNDE2B*
A: zwei stunden zwei
A: $NUM-EINER1A:2d*
A: zwei zwei
A: However, we had to go to church for an hour each Wednesday.
A: ABER1*
A: aber
A: KIRCHE2A
A: kirche
A: MITTE1A
A: mitte
A: REGELMÄSSIG2*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1*
A: mittwoch mittwoch mittwoch
A: STUNDE2B*
A: eine stunde
A: It was enough to put you to sleep, really, but you had to endure it anyhow.
A: grausam
A: ||HASSEN1^*
A: $INDEX1
A: PASSEN1*
A: pass
A: EINSCHLAFEN1*
A: [MG]
A: SICH-MIT-ETWAS-ABFINDEN3B
B: You just had to go to the last row and sit down, cross your legs and fall a sleep.
B: HIN1
B: $PROD*
B: letzte
B: LETZTE1A*
B: HINTEN3
B: $PROD*
B: SCHLAFEN2A*
B: schlafen
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: [MG]
B: Figures.
B: KLAR1A^*
B: logisch
A: So, overall you had a good time?
A: GESAMT1C*
A: GUT3
A: SCHÖN1A
A: schön
B: It was nice, yes.
A: ZEIT5A*
A: zeit
B: SCHÖN1A
B: schön
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: We always played football during the breaks.
B: ZUSAMMEN1C*
A: GUT3*
B: FUSSBALL2*
B: fußball
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: PAUSE1
B: pause
B: RICHTUNG1^*
B: FUSSBALL2*
B: fußball
A: Sure, same here.
A: ||DASSELBE3*
A: selb
A: ||ICH2
A: auch
A: ||FUSSBALL4
A: fußball
A: ||KLAR1B*
C: You went to Winnenden, wait, but you didn‘t, though. You were in Nuremberg. So, if you compare your schooldays and the time in Winnenden or Nuremberg, where would you say did you have a better time?
A: Transitioning to the BBW Nuremberg [Berufsbildungswerk: engl. vocational training center] changed a lot.
A: ICH2*
A: $ALPHA1:W*
A: b-b-w
A: NÜRNBERG3*
A: nürnberg
A: ICH2
A: KLAR1B
A: klar
A: GROSS3B
A: groß
A: VERÄNDERN1B
A: [MG]
A: Sure, as a child you‘re young and silly.
A: WARUM1*
A: warum
A: ICH2
A: KIND2*
A: kinder
A: NEUGIERIG1*
A: ANFÜHRUNGSZEICHEN1*
A: JUNG2*
A: jung
A: KIND2
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: $GEST^*
A: [MG]
A: At the BBW everybody is so grown up. That‘s confusing at first, and it takes a while to get used and adapt to it.
A: EINTRETEN1A
A: $ALPHA1:W*
A: b-b-w
A: GROSS5A*
A: groß
A: $GEST-NM^
A: ENTWICKELN2*
A: [MG]
A: SITUATION1
A: situation
A: ANDERS1*
A: anders anders
A: I slept at the boarding school in Nuremberg. So, that was really good. The sense of community was strong.
A: ICH1
A: ich
A: internat
A: INTERNAT1B*
A: ||SCHLAFEN1A
A: ||BLEIBEN1*
A: [MG]
A: nürnberg
A: NÜRNBERG3
A: ICH1
A: GUT3*
A: [MG]
A: ZUSAMMEN1C
A: zusammen
A: UNTEREINANDER2*
A: [MG]
A: GUT3*
A: There weren‘t any nuns, and I didn‘t have to go to church.
A: KRANKENSCHWESTER1*
A: schwester
A: KIRCHE2A*
A: OHNE1
A: ohne
A: KIRCHE2A*
A: ki{rche}
A: BESUCHEN1A
A: OHNE1
A: I had to work there, with a rasp for example, which I don’t like at all. It was hard in the beginning but that’s the normal way.
A: ACHTUNG1A^
A: arbeit
A: ARBEITEN1*
A: FEILE1*
A: [MG]
A: MÖGEN-NICHT1
A: FEILE1*
A: HART2*
A: hart
A: NORMAL1*
A: normal
A: And then the leisure time: there were so many possibilities, we were allowed to go out together; that was just great.
A: ABER1*
A: aber
A: UM1A
A: um
A: freizeit
A: FREI3
A: ZEIT5A*
A: [MG]
A: SEHR6*
A: NIVEAU1
A: FORT1*
A: fort fort fort
A: ZUSAMMEN1C
A: GUT3
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: It‘s quite hard to compare it. It makes quite a big difference whether someone is a child or a grown-up.
A: selbe
A: DASSELBE2A*
A: UNTERSCHIED1A^*
A: WARUM1*
A: warum
A: ERWACHSENE1B
A: erwachsen
A: ||KIND2*
A: kind
A: ||UNTERSCHIED2*
A: What do you think about that?
A: GEFÜHL2A*
A: fühlen
A: ||SELBST1A*
A: selbst
A: SPÜREN2*
A: spüren
A: WIE7A*
A: wie
B: Same - as a child you‘re still so naive.
A: ||DU1
B: DASSELBE2A
B: [MG]
B: KIND2
B: [MG]
B: NAIV1
B: BEREICH1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: You have no life experience yet.
B: ERFAHRUNG6B*
B: erfahrung
B: KEIN1*
B: kein
B: That‘s something you collect over time, and you learn a lot, especially during your apprenticeship.
B: AUFWACHSEN1A*
B: ERFAHRUNG6B*
B: erfahrung
B: ICH1*
B: ERFAHRUNG6B*
B: LERNEN1
B: lernen
B: DURCH2A
B: durch
B: MEISTENS1A
B: meist
B: ausbildung
B: BILDUNG1*
B: $INDEX1
B: ERFAHRUNG6B*
B: $INDEX1
A: When you first arrived in Winnenden, were you shocked when first getting into contact with others, as well?
B: There is quite a big difference between younger and older people.
A: VERGANGENHEIT1
B: MERKEN2*
A: AUCH1A*
A: auch
B: UNTERSCHIED2*
B: [MG]
A: ERSTENS1A
A: erste
A: fall
A: FALL1A*
A: DU1*
A: PAPIER1^*
A: winn{enden}
A: EINTRETEN1A
A: DU1*
A: $GEST-NM^
A: [MG]
A: $GEST^
A: [MG]
B: Yes, right. That happened in my first year of apprenticeship.
B: $INDEX1
A: $GEST^
A: [MG]
B: JA2
B: STIMMT1B*
A: DU1*
B: TAG-ZURÜCK1C^*
B: ICH1
B: EINTRETEN1A
B: $INDEX1
B: $NUM-ORD1:1d
B: erste
B: LEHRLING2
B: lehrling
B: STIMMT1A
B: stimmt
B: As I was filing or something, a fat man who had a speech impediment stood next to me.
B: FEILE1*
B: UND-SO-WEITER5
B: PLÖTZLICH4*
B: $INDEX1
B: MANN10*
B: DICK-KÖRPER1
B: [MG]
B: sprachbehindert
B: HALS1^*
B: ||PERSON1
B: He had it in for some guy I went to school with. He is a nice guy; I know him.
B: AUF-PERSON1
B: auf
B: BERUF1A^*
B: ??
B: AUF-PERSON1
B: ICH2
B: SCHULE1A*
B: schule
B: AUFWACHSEN1A*
B: auf{gewachsen}
B: [MG]
B: KENNEN1A*
B: $INDEX1
B: GUT1
B: So, he walked over to my pal.
B: ||DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
B: He had one of those really long and really pointy files in his hand, a deburring tool.
B: FEILE1*
B: feile
B: ||SPITZ1A
B: spitz
B: FEILE4^*
B: entgrater
B: ||SPITZ1A^
B: [MG]
B: He used that to threaten my friend with.
B: $INDEX1
B: AUF-PERSON1*
B: auf
B: FESTHALTEN4*
B: I was really furious and pushed him.
B: ICH1
B: WÜTEND2*
B: wut
B: AUF-PERSON1
B: ICH1
B: SCHUBSEN1*
B: I angrily asked what his problem was.
B: WAS1A*
B: PROBLEM2A*
B: problem
B: I didn’t know what his problem was or what led up to the situation; I didn’t see it happen.
B: [MG]
B: WISSEN2A
B: NICHT1
B: ZUFALL1^
B: NICHTS1A*
B: nichts
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: $GEST^
B: $INDEX2*
B: They then argued about it. They gave a warning; that was it.
B: ETWAS-PLANEN-UND-UMSETZEN1
B: MAHNUNG1A*
B: mahnen
B: ETWAS-PLANEN-UND-UMSETZEN1
B: SCHLUSS1
B: Of course I stood up for my friend who had been threatened.
B: ICH1
B: FÜR1*
B: für
B: KLAR1B*
B: STECHEN7^
B: I was against the guy and supporting my friend. So the two of us went in there together.
B: NICHTS-DAZU-SAGEN1
B: [MG]
B: SCHUTZ2A
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH2*
B: GEGEN1
B: ICH2
B: FÜR1
B: für
B: $PROD*
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: [MG]
B: My friend from Hamburg and I then agreed that it would be best to just ignore the guy.
B: hamburg
B: HAMBURG2*
B: GLEICH2^*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2d
B: ||NICHT-ERNST-NEHMEN1*
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: STIMMT1A
B: stimmt
B: Then it was the end of the work day.
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: SCHULE1A*
B: ARBEITEN1*
B: VORBEI4
B: I went downstairs to change. I went outside afterwards.
B: $PROD*
B: $INDEX1
B: ANZIEHEN-OBERKÖRPER1A*
B: [MG]
B: FERTIG1A*
B: drauß
B: DRAUSSEN1
B: $PROD*
B: Suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder, and next thing I know that guy’s fist came flying right into my face. I stumbled backwards and was numb, but nevertheless I was able to defend myself.
B: ||SCHULTER1B^
B: [MG]
B: SCHLAGEN3*
B: ICH2
B: HINKNIEN-SICH1
B: ICH2
B: $INDEX1
B: AUF-PERSON1*
B: PLÖTZLICH4*
B: [MG]
B: FÜR1*
B: für
B: VERTEIDIGEN1A
B: [MG]
B: $GEST^
B: I thought, “What the heck do I have to do with it?”
B: [MG]
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST^
B: He was really aggressive.
B: $INDEX1
B: WÜNSCHEN1B*
B: wünsch
B: He was Russian, and I knew that I‘d be better off ignoring him.
B: ICH1
B: $GEST^*
B: $INDEX1
B: RUSSLAND4A
B: ru{sse}
B: GEHÖREN1^
B: ICH2
B: WISSEN2B
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ||NICHT-ERNST-NEHMEN1*
B: That was it. The end.
B: ABLAUF2^*
B: [MG]
B: WEG-VERSCHWINDEN1
A: He surely didn‘t see you as a fellow student.
B: SCHLUSS1*
A: KLAR1B
A: klar
B: For sure. It’s a big difference compared to the Hauptschule [type of secondary school in Germany].
A: DU1*
A: DENKEN1B
B: KLAR1B*
A: DU1*
B: WISSEN2B
A: BEGREIFEN1^*
A: begreif
A: SCHULE1B
A: schule
B: GUT1^
A: NICHT4
B: hauptschule
B: MANN1^*
B: SCHULE1A*
A: It was a provocation.
B: GROSS3B*
B: groß
A: $GEST^
A: [MG]
B: UNTERSCHIED2*
B: unterschied
A: When newly arriving, there’s a huge difference in the experiences people have had.
A: DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
A: DA1
A: da
A: GEFÜHL3
A: fühlen
A: ERFAHRUNG6C*
A: erfahrung
A: UNTERSCHIED1A*
A: unterschied
A: Right, I know this kind of situation. You need to be careful, it’s different among adults.
A: STIMMT1A
A: stimmt
A: kenn
A: ICH1*
A: KOPFSCHMERZEN2A^
A: vorsicht
A: VORSICHTIG1
A: $GEST-VORSICHTIG1^*
A: ERWACHSENE2A
A: erwachsen
A: ANDERS1
A: anders
B: So, that was one of the bad experiences at school.
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: SCHLECHT1
B: schlecht
B: erfahrung
B: ERFAHRUNG6A*
B: $INDEX1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
C: You used to commute to school in Winnenden, why so? Why didn‘t you stay at the boarding school.
B: It wasn‘t that great. They have very strict rules, and the food is just weird.
B: ES-FEHLT-ETWAS1^*
B: REGEL1A
B: STRENG2*
B: streng
B: STRENG2*
B: streng
B: ESSEN1
B: essen
B: [MG]
B: MERKWÜRDIG3
B: ||SEIN-IHR1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: One is so restricted there. Although I was given 30€ there, you aren‘t allowed to pick for yourself what you‘d like to eat. They offer food according to their own plan.
B: AUCH1A
B: auch
B: GEBEN-GELD5*
B: $INDEX1||HALTEN-BLATT1A^*
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:3d*
B: dreißig
B: euro
B: EURO1
B: NICHT-MEHR1A*
B: ICH1
B: [MG]
B: WÜNSCHEN2A*
B: AUSSUCHEN1*
B: NEIN2A
B: SELBST1A*
B: selbst
B: REGEL1A*
B: AUSSUCHEN1
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: You weren‘t allowed to eat the food all by yourself; it had to be shared with everyone.
B: ESSEN1*
B: SAUBER-MACHEN1A^
B: aus
B: NEIN2A
B: AUFTEILEN5
B: teilen
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: It reminds me of Christ, how he breaks the bread. I mean, this sharing and splitting of food. Maybe it‘s just me.
B: WIE3B*
B: $GEST-ICH-WEISS-NICHT1^
B: JESUS1
B: christus
B: VERTEILEN4*
B: AUFTEILEN5*
B: teilen
B: VERTEILEN4*
B: WIE4A*
B: GEFÜHL3
B: I just enjoy opening the fridge and enjoying my food, feasting upon whatever I like.
B: SELBST1A*
B: LIEBE1A*
B: KÜHLSCHRANK2*
B: SCHÖN1A
B: schön
B: WERFEN1^*
B: [MG]
B: ESSEN1*
B: GUT1*
B: It‘s completely different when you have to go to your room at 10 p.m. That‘s when you‘re not free at all.
B: NICHT3A
B: zehn uhr
B: ZEIT1*
B: $NUM-EINER1D:10
B: SCHICKEN1
B: ZIMMER1A*
B: zimmer
B: GEFÜHL3
A: It‘s quite far, isn‘t it? Like an hour and fifteen minutes?
A: $ORAL^
A: aber
B: FREI2A
B: frei
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1
A: [MG]
B: NICHT3A
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: STUNDE2B*
A: eine stunde
B: It’s all for a real feeling of a good life.
B: LEBEN4*
B: leben
A: $NUM-TEEN2A:5
A: fünfzehn
A: MINUTE1
A: minute
B: GUT3*
B: gut
B: LEBEN1C
B: leben
A: UNGEFÄHR1
B: GUT3*
B: gut
A: Return.
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: $INDEX1
A: GUT4^
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: [MG]
A: I know that feeling of going home. There’s a full fridge waiting there, that’s important.
A: HEIM6*
A: heim
A: wie
A: WIE4A*
B: There is/
B: $INDEX1
A: KENNEN1A*
B: $INDEX1
B: The wage was higher there than at the boarding school, as well.
A: kühlschrank
A: KÜHLSCHRANK2*
B: AUCH1A
B: a{uch}
A: DA1^*
A: WERTVOLL1B*
A: wertvoll
B: AUCH1A
B: auch
B: ||HEBEN1^
B: lohn
B: ICH1*
B: STIMMT2*
B: stimmt
B: ||MEHR6*
B: mehr
B: WENIG4
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: People say life at boarding school is bad.
B: LEBEN4*
B: leben
B: SCHLECHT2*
B: schlecht
B: WIE4A*
B: wie
B: sag man
B: SAGEN3*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: It was lights out at ten p.m., wasn‘t it?
B: I/
A: ZEIT1
B: $GEST-HAND-AUF-BRUST1^
A: FRIST3
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: $NUM-EINER1D:10
A: zehn
A: zurück
A: ZURÜCK1A*
A: SCHICKEN1
B: Yes, we were sent to bed around that time.
A: STIMMT1A
A: stimmt
B: [MG]
B: SCHICKEN1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: Even though you were eighteen already, of age.
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: OBWOHL2*
A: obwohl
A: SELBST1A*
A: selbst
A: $NUM-TEEN1:8d
A: achtzehn
B: You couldn’t leave after. It was the school‘s instruction. The rules of the boarding school.
A: ALT5A
A: alt
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: SCHON1A
A: schon
B: SCHLUSS1
A: VOLL2A^
A: voll{jährig}
B: $INDEX1
A: You had to stay inside, didn't you?
B: REGEL1B
A: DU1*
B: $INDEX1*
A: UNTER1B^*
A: [MG]
B: internat
B: INTERNAT1B
A: MUSS1A
A: muss
B: SEIN-IHR1
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: That was disconcerting.
A: $GEST-NM^
A: [MG]
B: internat
B: INTERNAT1B*
B: REGEL1A
B: SEIN-IHR1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: You didn‘t like the boarding school.
A: ||SELBST1A*
A: selbst
A: ||SELBST1A*
A: selbst
A: internat
A: INTERNAT1B
A: DU1
A: MÖGEN-NICHT1
A: DU1*
A: You had been commuting since you were a young child; that’s why you didn’t like boarding school.
A: FEIND1A*
A: feind
A: WARUM2A*
A: warum
A: schule
A: SCHULE1B*
A: AUFWACHSEN1A
A: INTERNAT1B*
A: internat
A: KEIN8
A: [MG]
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: I totally get that. I‘d have done the same thing if I were you.
A: UM6*
A: ||ICH2
A: ||KENNEN1A
A: [MG]
A: UM7*
A: um
A: DASSELBE2A
A: [MG]
A: auch
A: AUCH1A
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: I was in Nuremberg; the connection to Nuremberg was really bad, and I/
A: SELBST1A*
A: selbst
A: NÜRNBERG3
A: nürnberg
A: KLAR1B
A: klar
A: ICH1
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: VERBINDUNG1
A: verbindung
A: SCHLECHT2
A: [MG]
A: It would’ve taken me over an hour, and the IC [German type of train: InterCity] was the only train going there.
A: ICH1
A: $GEST^
A: [MG]
A: ÜBER1
A: über
A: STUNDE2B
A: eine stunde
A: zug
A: ZUG1B*
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: $ALPHA1:I-C
A: i-c
A: MUSS1A*
A: muss
A: I would have had to pay it myself, and the IC is expensive.
A: ICH1
A: $ALPHA1:I-C
A: i-c
A: ICH2*
A: BEZAHLEN9
A: [MG]
A: SELBST1A
A: selbst
A: If there had been an RE [German type of train: RegionalExpress] that would’ve stopped at all the small stations, still only taking an hour, I would’ve been able to manage that. I also would’ve commuted then.
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: WENN1
A: $ALPHA1:R-E
A: r-e
A: DA1^*
A: eine stunde
A: STUNDE2B*
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: KANN1*
A: kann
A: ICH1
A: [MG]
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: GLEICH1A^
A: ICH1
A: However, the IC wasn‘t worth the costs, so I decided to stay at the boarding school. From there I traveled 120 kilometers back home from time to time.
A: DURCH2A
A: durch
A: $ALPHA1:I-C
A: i-c
A: RECHNEN1
A: [MG]
A: ICH1
A: BLEIBEN2*
A: [MG]
A: hundertzwanzig
A: $NUM-HUNDERT2*
A: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:2d*
A: KILOMETER1*
A: kilometer
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: I didn‘t mind because the comradeship was great; there weren’t any strict rules but a lot of freedom instead.
A: AUCH1A*
A: auch
A: ZUSAMMEN1C
A: PRAKTISCH1^
A: STRENG2
A: ZEIT1*
A: REGEL1D
A: NICHT3B*
A: frei
A: FREI2A
A: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: I liked that.
A: ICH2
A: [MG]
A: GUT3*
A: I had to be a bit careful during my three month probationary period.
A: MONAT1*
A: drei monate
A: probezeit
A: PROBE2*
A: ZEIT7C*
A: AUFPASSEN3*
A: However, after those three month we celebrated, and then it all went on and on.
A: DANACH3*
A: sp{äter}
A: VORBEI3*
A: vorbei
A: [MG]
A: LEBEN1B^*
A: ABLAUF2
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: Yes, that was a wonderful time.
A: GUT3
A: gut
A: SCHÖN1A
A: schön
A: ZEIT1
A: zeit
B: In comparison to the past the number of deaf people has declined; the group becomes smaller and smaller.
B: AUCH1A
B: auch
B: FRÜHER1*
B: JETZT3*
B: MOMENT3
B: moment
B: $INDEX2
B: GRUPPE3A^*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1B*
B: ZUSAMMEN1C
B: [MG]
B: VERRINGERN1B
B: [MG]
B: More spoken language is being used and there are more people who are hard of hearing.
B: MEHR1
B: mehr
B: STIMME1*
B: stimme
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1
B: schwerhörig
B: $GEST-NM^
B: [MG]
B: There are more smaller groups that keep to themselves now. Back in the days, we all got together, even the hard of hearing that enjoyed sign language were part of a larger group. That was awesome.
B: GROSS7^*
B: AUCH1A
B: auch
B: GEMEINSCHAFT3*
B: gemeinschaft gemeinschaft
B: FRÜHER1*
B: früher
B: [MG]
B: ZUSAMMEN1C
B: GUT3
B: $NAME
B: ??
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX1
B: SCHMECKEN1A^*
B: ZUSAMMEN1C
B: GUT3
B: Having all those separate groups is just stupid.
B: WIE-FRAGE-VERGLEICH1*
B: GEMEINSCHAFT3*
B: SCHLECHT2
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: There’s the group of Turks, the group of Russians and the group of people with speech impairments.
B: TÜRKE1
B: türken
B: GRUPPE1A*
B: russen
B: RUSSLAND4A
B: GRUPPE1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: sprachbehinderten
B: STIMME1*
B: GRUPPE1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: And then there‘s this small group of deaf people. That’s no good.
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1B
B: ZUSAMMEN-GRUPPE1*
B: [MG]
B: bestimmt
B: BESTIMMT1*
B: ANTIPPEN1^*
B: DAS-IST-ALLES1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: $INDEX1
A: Back when I went to school, there wasn‘t anything like a Russian group.
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
B: NICHTS1B*
B: KEIN2
B: It’s all shit.
B: DENKEN1B
A: RUSSLAND4A
A: russ{isch}
B: AB2^
B: scheiße
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: ICH1
A: GRUPPE1A^*
A: ZEIT5A*
A: zeit
A: RUSSLAND4A
A: russe
A: GRUPPE1A^*
A: KEIN1
A: kein
A: Back then, the wall was still up. It all started with the fall of the Berlin wall, that’s when it slowly began.
A: WARUM1*
A: warum
A: MAUER3*
A: mauer
A: ZEIT5A*
A: zeit
A: MAUERFALL1
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV1*
A: langsam
A: Now that the wall has been down for a while more and more people have come, and groups started to form.
A: JETZT3*
A: jetzt
A: MAUER3*
A: mauer
A: ABLAUF1A*
A: [MG]
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV1*
A: [MG]
A: GRUPPE1B*
A: gruppe gruppe gruppe gruppe gruppe
A: That confused everything; that‘s too bad.
A: DURCHEINANDER1*
A: [MG]
A: schade
A: SCHADE1*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: That’s the course of life. I guess that’s normal.
A: SO1
A: so
A: lebensweg
A: LEBEN4*
A: WEG2B
B: There won‘t be many deaf people left ten, twenty years from now, I think.
A: [MG]
A: EGAL-SEIN1A*
B: MERKEN2*
B: ICH1
B: zwanzig jahre
B: $NUM-JAHR-NACH-JETZT1:10
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:2d*
B: $NUM-JAHR-NACH-JETZT1:1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1B*
B: [MG]
B: we{niger} we{niger} weniger
B: VERRINGERN1B
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: I already see it happening at the BBW.
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: We‘ll have to wait and see.
B: VIEL1A*
A: WARTEN1A*
A: abwarten
B: sehe
B: SEHEN1
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ICH1
B: $ALPHA1:B-B-W
B: b-b-w
B: MERKEN2*
B: merken
B: SCHON1A
B: schon
B: The number of deaf trainees has become smaller over the years, from my first to my fourth year there was an extreme drop.
B: ICH1
B: $NUM-LEHRJAHR1:1d
B: [MG]
B: BIS1*
B: bis
B: JETZT3*
B: jetzt
B: $NUM-LEHRJAHR1:4
B: vierte {lehrjahr}
B: ICH1
B: VERRINGERN1B
B: [MG]
B: SEHR6
B: [MG]
B: Ever since first starting my apprenticeship, I‘ve observed that group sizes go down quickly.
B: BANAL1
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1B*
B: [MG]
B: WIMMELN1
B: VERRINGERN1B
B: schnell
B: SCHNELL3A
B: ÄNDERN1
B: It happens fast.
B: SCHNELL3A*
B: schnell
B: That‘s life, anyhow.
B: LEBEN4*
B: leben
B: SO1*
B: so
C: Good. Now, I‘d like to know why you didn‘t go to Winnenden, even though you would have been able to commute? Instead you went to Nuremberg. Why?
A: I forgot to tell you about Winnenden.
A: DURCH2A
A: durch
A: ICH1*
A: PAPIER1^
A: winnenden
A: ICH1
A: VERGESSEN1*
A: WIEDER1A
A: wieder
A: I started out in Winnenden, but I was then transferred to another department.
A: anfang
A: ANFANG1A*
A: EINTRETEN1A*
A: DANN1A
A: dann
A: ICH1*
A: STELLEN-VON-NACH1A^*
A: The reason for it was that every other department was full, basically.
A: ANFÜHRUNGSZEICHEN1*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: GRUPPE3A^*
A: $INDEX1
A: voll
A: VOLL9
A: $INDEX1
A: The department of my choice was already full. I couldn‘t believe it.
A: ICH2*
A: BERUF1A*
A: MEIN1*
A: VOLL9
A: voll
A: VOLL9
A: SPINNEN-VERRÜCKT-SEIN2
A: “We‘re full”, they told me apologetically and sent me somewhere else.
A: VOLL9
A: voll
A: ENTSCHULDIGUNG1*
A: entschuldigung
A: ||DU1
A: du
A: ||STELLEN-VON-NACH1A^*
A: Four people were then sent to another department, one of those was me.
A: ICH2
A: ||STELLEN-VON-NACH1A^*
A: vier
A: $NUM-EINER1B:4
A: $NUM-EINER1A:4*
A: There were mentally handicapped people.
A: $GEST^
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: WIE3B*
A: DICKKOPF1^*
A: [MG]
A: Those people with mental disabilities executed the easier tasks. They only had to move a lever.
A: PERSON1*
A: GEISTIG2*
A: BEHINDERUNG1
A: behindert
A: HEBEL2*
A: WIE3A*
A: KONZENTRIEREN1A^*
A: However, there is a work step before that: there are four vices positioned next to each other, each one another workplace.
A: ABER1*
A: aber
B: Yes, right, I know.
B: JA1B*
A: VORHER2
B: KENNEN1A
B: [MG]
B: noch
B: JA1B*
B: NOCH4A*
A: $NUM-EINER1A:4
A: vier
A: KURBELN2A^*
A: schraubstock
A: EINTEILEN1A^*
A: $NUM-EINER1A:4
A: vier
A: So, there were four people who were supposed to work as metalworkers.
A: BERUF1A
A: beruf
A: metall
A: MEIN1
A: METALL1
A: FEILE1
A: $NUM-EINER1A:4
A: vier
A: NICHT-MEHR1A*
A: And the rest, so the mentally handicapped workers, learned to work with the drill rig.
A: rest
A: REST1A*
A: BEREICH1A^*
A: LERNEN4*
A: HEBEL3^*
A: ||$INDEX1
A: I almost had to walk back and forth then, it was approximately ten minutes each way.
A: $GEST^
A: [MG]
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: ||LAUFEN9A*
A: laufen laufen
A: $NUM-EINER1B:10
A: zehn
A: minuten
A: MINUTE1
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: $NUM-EINER1B:10*
A: zehn
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: minuten
A: Going back and forth for every break or for lunch.
A: PAUSE1*
A: pause
A: mittagessen
A: MITTAG3*
A: ESSEN2*
A: ||HIN-UND-HER1*
A: After three weeks I ran away.
A: RECHNEN1^
A: $NUM-EINER1A:3d
A: drei
A: WOCHE2
A: woche
A: ICH1*
A: ABHAUEN1A
A: That wasn‘t fun at all; it was way too primitive.
A: ||KEIN5B
A: kein
A: spaß
A: ||SPASS1*
A: ||ICH1
B: Did you run away on foot?
A: ||ERLEICHTERT3*
A: [MG]
A: UNTEN5^*
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1
B: ABHAUEN1A
B: ab
B: $PROD*
B: zu fuß
A: I quickly packed my backs and ran away.
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: ABHAUEN1A
A: [MG]
A: WERFEN1^*
A: tasche
A: I returned the key and left.
A: ICH2
A: SCHLÜSSEL-TÜR1*
A: schlüssel
A: ABHAUEN1A
A: ab
A: I immediately went to the employment agency, but they didn‘t agree with me and wanted me to go back.
A: arbeitsamt
A: ARBEITEN4*
A: DORTHIN-GEHEN2
A: AMT1A*
A: amt
A: ||NEIN1B
A: [MG]
A: BITTE3*
A: bitte
A: ZURÜCK1A*
A: zurück
A: ICH2
A: Two or three weeks later the summer break was going to start in Bavaria.
A: BAYERN1
A: bayern
A: $GEST^
A: WOCHE1A*
A: eine woche
A: WOCHE1A*
A: zwei
A: FERIEN2*
A: ferien
A: PHASE1D
A: $INDEX1
A: However, they told me that I might have a chance in Bavaria, in Nuremberg, and that it wasn‘t too far from home. So they would try and call there.
A: BAYERN1
A: bayern
A: NÜRNBERG3*
A: nürnberg
A: ICH2
A: NAHE1A
A: [MG]
A: CHANCE1
A: chance
A: $INDEX1
A: MAL-SEHEN1
A: [MG]
A: ANRUFEN1
A: anrufen
A: They then sent me back for the moment, and I respected that decision and went back.
A: $INDEX1
A: ARBEITEN1*
A: arbeit
A: OKAY1*
A: okay
A: BITTE3*
A: bitte
A: JETZT3*
A: jetzt
A: zurück
A: ZURÜCK1A*
A: ICH2
A: JETZT3*
A: ZURÜCK1A*
A: zu{rück}
A: OKAY1
A: okay
A: ICH2
A: RESPEKT2
A: ||ZURÜCK1A
A: zu{rück}
A: After a couple of phone calls, at last news of success came in:
A: TELEFONIEREN1*
A: UNTEREINANDER3*
A: ERFOLG1
A: [MG]
A: They had an open position in a group of metalworkers in Nuremberg. There the working atmosphere was much better.
A: nürnberg
A: NÜRNBERG3
A: EINSTELLEN-ARBEIT1A
A: arbeit
A: ARBEITEN4*
A: UNTER1B^*
A: WIE3B*
A: wie
A: METALL1
A: metall
A: ZUSAMMEN1C*
A: zusammen
A: ICH2
A: GEWOHNHEIT2*
A: gewöhnt
A: warm
A: WARM2C*
A: ANGENEHM2*
A: ZUSAMMEN1C
A: STIMMT1A*
A: Typically, deaf people create one community. Excluding a singular person from the group puts everyone on the alert. There was no distance there.
A: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
A: gehörlos
A: TYPISCH1*
A: typisch
A: gesellschaft
A: GESELLSCHAFT2*
A: BEZIEHUNG2*
A: WENN1*
A: wenn
A: ABSTAND4
A: ALARM2*
A: ALARM1*
A: alarm
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: KLAR1B
A: klar
A: ||ABSTAND4
A: That‘s why I dropped out of the training.
A: DESHALB1*
A: [MG]
A: ABBRUCH1
A: GRUND4A
A: grund
A: $GEST-OFF^*
C: I see, that‘s why. And you stayed there over the weekend for the parties?
A: No, I lived at the boarding school.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^*
A: INTERNAT1B
A: internat
A: In Winnenden you get to choose.
A: ||$GEST^
A: winnenden
A: PAPIER1^
A: KÖRPER3^*
A: HABEN-EXISTIEREN1
A: [MG]
A: auswahl
A: AUSWAHL1C*
A: REGEL1D^
A: $GEST-OFF^*
C: Yet, in principle you could have commuted to Winnenden?
A: At that time, the society was just different from nowadays.
A: FRÜHER1
A: früher
A: ZEIT5A*
A: zeit
A: GESELLSCHAFT2
A: gesellschaft
A: HEUTE3*
A: heute
A: GESELLSCHAFT2
A: gesellschaft
A: MITTELMÄSSIG1
A: [MG]
A: That’s why people rather commute. Back in the days, it was quite different; we enjoyed being part of a group.
A: LIEBER1*
A: lieber
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: [MG]
A: ||$GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: GESELLSCHAFT2*
A: gesellschaft
A: ||GUT4^
A: [MG]
A: ||NACH-HAUSE1*
A: nach hause
A: ICH2
A: GRUPPE1A*
A: $GEST-OFF^