Die Klassen: How Syrians Adapt to Life in Germany

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Amy Zayed, follows the lives of five Syrians as they attempt to settle into their new home. While many are keen to learn their new language, they are quickly diverted by preoccupations about access to money, securing permanent residency status and health.

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm the
0:03.4	the BBC World Service. My name's Tim Manzel and I'm the producer of this
0:07.5	program de Klassen. It's presented by Amy Zayed, a journalist who lives in Cologne in Germany, but who travelled to Berlin to meet all
0:16.0	the Syrians whose voices you're about to hear.
0:18.9	Amy was born in Germany, but her parents came from Egypt, so she grew up speaking Arabic as you'll hear that
0:25.5	was important when it came to making this program I hope you enjoy it.
0:29.2	DAS-
0:31.2	I used This is said.
0:37.3	Welcome to Berlin and welcome to this German class.
0:41.3	Ere,
0:54.7	Comte, O's. class. When Germany took in took in hundreds of thousands of refugees last year, it broke all records.
0:59.8	About 80,000 of them came here to Berlin. Along with my producer Laura, I've got to know
1:06.4	so of the new arrivals as they try to settle into a strange country with a
1:10.4	strange language. Aus.
1:15.0	More than half of them came from Syria.
1:20.0	It's for the strain of Germany's state resources on its bureaucracy. It's caused interracial
1:26.1	tension. But after Angela Merkel famously told the German people that, we're chaffened us,
1:32.3	we can do it. Plenty of people here have offered a
1:35.1	warm welcome. Just listen to that. People applauding the refugees as they arrive.
1:44.0	They're here, this is their final destination.
1:47.0	Ordinary German men and women stood here and applauding them.
1:51.0	This is of course the end of a very very long journey for them.
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