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🗓️ 15 October 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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It is now a year since the German Chancellor Angela Merkel threw Germany’s borders open to thousands of stranded Syrian refugees. We follow five of them and for most it has been a year of uncertainty, a year of unending bureaucratic hurdles, and a year of struggle with German grammar.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Berlin. I'm Amy Zeyed. Dermany took in hundreds of thousands of |
0:10.4 | refugees last year. Along with my producer Laura I've been following of came to help them settle the German government laid on classes to teach them the |
0:26.6 | German language and some basics of German life. This program is the third part of |
0:31.9 | our story of four of those families. But Sophia Vergise, Vergise, Vergist, di. |
0:46.2 | Eptisam is a really cheerful person in her 40s who came to Germany with her husband and her mother-in-law. |
0:53.0 | She's been going to her German lessons with great determination, |
0:57.0 | but she's obviously not finding it easy. |
1:00.0 | Giza? |
1:02.0 | Giza, yeah, gesse. The school is amazing, I really like it and the teacher is really good too. He's |
1:17.1 | amazing. Really polite, really respectful. He's very professional and I think he's a really gifted teacher. I think he's great. |
1:27.0 | Now I'm here with Eftosam's teacher. What is your impression of her? Is she a good student? |
1:34.8 | She is quite good student and she has really good integrated in the class. |
1:40.1 | Yeah, she is really one of the centers of emotional contact between other people. |
1:46.1 | So she is really nice and a good student, yes. |
1:50.8 | When the vast majority of refugees were allowed into Germany a year ago, German classes were hastily arranged. |
1:58.0 | But many of the students found it difficult to attend regularly, when they were needing to officially register, |
2:04.8 | arrange somewhere to live and apply to be recognized as refugees. |
2:09.6 | All very time consuming. |
2:11.6 | Initially they were housed in huge reception centres, converted aircraft hangars and |
2:17.2 | alike which offered little privacy or security. |
2:21.0 | Although some of our families have moved on, Eptosum still lives in a converted office |
2:26.4 | building. Now there was a suggestion about a flying flying flat without the refugee status. |
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