Schweizer Abenteuer · Geschichte 11
Besuch im Emmental
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In each language: Besuch im Emmental · A Visit to the Emmental
When his cousin Ines arrives from Zug for the summer, with a ring light and a phone that never stops filming, twelve-year-old Samuel knows his family's Emmental farm is in for trouble. A prank about a cheese "hole driller" backfires, an old cow escapes into the village bakery on the day of the wrestling festival, and half a million people are watching.
In German and English · 11 chapters · about 9,200 words · 1 h to read.
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Comment ça commence
Fünf Uhr früh
Five in the Morning
Am ersten Morgen ihres Besuchs stand Ines Lanz um fünf Uhr früh im Kuhstall, in weissen Turnschuhen, und filmte eine Kuh. Samuel Wüthrich sah es von der Melkmaschine aus und wusste mit plötzlicher Beklommenheit, dass dieser Sommer eine Katastrophe werden würde. Die Kuh hiess Blüemli, sie war die älteste im Stall, und sie mochte keine Fremden. Ines aber, arglos wie ein Stadtkind, hielt ihr das Handy so nahe vor die Nase, als wollte sie ein Porträt von ihr malen.
On the first morning of her visit, Ines Lanz stood in the cowshed at five o'clock in the morning, in white trainers, filming a cow. Samuel Wüthrich saw it from the milking machine and knew, with a sudden sense of unease, that this summer was going to be a disaster. The cow was called Blüemli; she was the oldest in the shed, and she did not like strangers. But Ines, as guileless as any city child, held the phone so close to her nose that it looked as if she wanted to paint her portrait.
«Nicht so nahe», warnte Samuel. «Blüemli ist heikel.»
"Not so close," Samuel warned. "Blüemli is touchy."
Languages
- Besuch im Emmental · German (original)B2 Intermediate · 9,154 words · ~1 h
- A Visit to the Emmental · English9,946 words · ~55 min
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