Clarify an offer without assuming a promise
Angebot, Anfrage und Zusage auseinanderhalten
Follow a consultation, correct an overbroad interpretation and ask a focused follow-up question.
Suitable for working people describes one feature of the course; it does not specify every possible arrangement. Frau Roth initially interprets it as flexible weekly attendance, then explicitly corrects that inference. Verstehe and Das ist nachvollziehbar acknowledge an explanation but do not mean that every practical problem has been solved. Her next question narrows the unresolved issue: whether an enquiry requires registration. The adviser commits to forwarding the enquiry, not to an answer by Friday or an available replacement place. A useful summary preserves these different commitments rather than treating every polite response as a promise.
Die Aussage bezieht sich auf die Uhrzeit.
The statement refers to the time of day.
Dann war meine Schlussfolgerung zu weitgehend.
Then my conclusion went too far.
Das gemeinsame Gespräch lässt sich damit nicht ersetzen.
That cannot replace the conversation together.
Ich kann bei der Kursleitung nachfragen.
I can enquire with the course leader.
Ich habe noch nicht verstanden, ob eine Anmeldung nötig ist.
I have not yet understood whether registration is necessary.
Die Anfrage ist von der Anmeldung getrennt.
The enquiry is separate from registration.
Suitable for working people describes one feature of the course; it does not specify every possible arrangement. Frau Roth initially interprets it as flexible weekly attendance, then explicitly corrects that inference. Verstehe and Das ist nachvollziehbar acknowledge an explanation but do not mean that every practical problem has been solved. Her next question narrows the unresolved issue: whether an enquiry requires registration. The adviser commits to forwarding the enquiry, not to an answer by Friday or an available replacement place. A useful summary preserves these different commitments rather than treating every polite response as a promise.
Follow a consultation, correct an overbroad interpretation and ask a focused follow-up question.
Do not infer that a written summary replaces spoken practice. Ich kann nachfragen offers an enquiry, not the requested place. Die Anmeldung ist davon getrennt means registration is a separate step; it does not mean a place is reserved.
Sich beziehen auf + accusative specifies what a statement refers to. Ob introduces an indirect yes/no question and takes final verb position. Zusagen means to promise or confirm here; nachfragen means to enquire further.
Write 250–300 words in German as a follow-up email from Frau Roth. Restate the corrected interpretation, the two requests and the adviser’s actual commitment. Ask for clarification of one still-open practical point, without presenting it as agreed.