Business Spotlight Übungsheft 09/2024: Hörverständnis

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    Atomic bomb survivor Teruko Yahata speaks to foreign visitors in Hiroshima
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    The listening exercises in Business Spotlight Übungsheft (p. 5) are based on the article “The power of remembering” (Names & News, p. 8). Here, we provide you with the audio file and transcript.

    The power of remembering

     

    The entire sky flashed and was illuminated in bluishbläulichbluish-white, as if the the heavensder Himmelheavens had become one huge, fluorescentfluoreszierendfluorescent light,” Teruko Yahata, an 87-year-old Japanese woman, says in English. She is describing one morning when she was eight years old — 6 August 1945 — in her hometown of Hiroshima, Japan. Yahata is one of the few living survivors of the first use of a nuclear bomb in wartime.

     

    Those who lived through the attack are called hibakusha in Japanese (literally “bomb-affectedbetroffenaffected people”). Yahata has travelled the world telling her story, which she used to do through an interpreterDolmetscher(in)interpreter. Then, in her late 70s, she began learning English. “I had this vaguevage, unklarvague dream of learning English so that I would be able to communicate in my own words, in my own voice, the dreadfulschrecklichdreadful power of that horrificentsetzlichhorrific atomic bomb,” she told Reuters. At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Yahata now gives her whole presentation in English — using a script that’s covered with notes on correct pronunciation.

     

    Recently, the spectreGespenstspectre of nuclear war has returned. anti-proliferation treatyVertrag über die Nichtverbreitung von KernwaffenAnti-proliferation treaties may soon expireauslaufen, endenexpire, and the International Campaign to abolish sth.etw. abschaffenAbolish Nuclear Weapons claims that global spending on nuclear arsenals has risen by 34 per cent over the past five years. Are the world’s leaders still listening to the warnings of the hibakusha?