{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a9ee1faf8f4d42589de3386/6ad738bad7bd364b41e9069b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Five billion dollars for US startups | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News","description":"<p>Today's story: JPMorgan invests $5 billion in young companies in the US. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it.</p><p>Today's headline in German: JPMorgan investiert fünf Milliarden Dollar in junge Firmen in den USA</p><p>(00:00) Welcome and today's headline</p><p>(00:38) More stories today</p><p>(01:38) Today's headline, slowly</p><p>(02:31) Investment in young companies</p><p>(03:03) Supply chains and work areas</p><p>(04:09) Direct investment</p><p>(04:57) Today's grammar point</p><p>(05:29) The story again</p><p>The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:</p><p>https://linguawire.com/class/german/a1/2026-10-20</p><p>TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT</p><p>JPMorgan investiert fünf Milliarden Dollar in junge Firmen in den USA</p><p>Im ersten Jahr des Programms hat JPMorgan Chase fünf Milliarden Dollar in junge Firmen in den USA investiert.</p><p>Das Programm unterstützt Firmen aus den Bereichen Verteidigung, Produktion und Lieferketten.</p><p>Die Bank wollte in zehn Jahren zehn Milliarden Dollar investieren.</p><p>Die Bank investierte direkt in Hadrian und Castelion.</p><p>Im August half die Bank bei einer Finanzierungsrunde für Hadrian über 1,4 Milliarden Dollar.</p><p>ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE</p><p>Anthropic gibt fünf Prozent der Aktien für das Gemeinwohl</p><p>PSG und Barcelona treffen sich in Paris</p><p>US-Wahl 2026 wird wohl die teuerste Kongresswahl</p><p>WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES</p><p>- vocabulary (investiert)</p><p>- vocabulary (Lieferketten)</p><p>- vocabulary (wollte)</p><p>- vocabulary (direkt)</p><p>- verb (helfen)</p><p>New to German? Every class starts from the beginning, so today is a fine place to start.</p><p>Not sure this is your level? Our free German level check shows what level you are overall and across 8 sub-skills:</p><p>https://linguawire.com/assessment</p><p>Grammar explained in plain English:</p><p>https://linguawire.com/guide</p><p>If today's class helped, please follow the show. It is the single best thing that helps other German learners find us.</p><p>Note: LINGUAWIRE classes use AI support for translation and multi-language recording, with native-speaker scripting and supervision.</p>","author_name":"LinguaWire"}