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- Do you understand German?
- No. No, I don't.

7 seconds sound clip from the Little Women (1950) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:43:45 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Yes, Jo. Yes, of course.

- So Jo left Concord. We heard from her regularly... and always an inquiry about Laurie...

- And, after a while, always a passing mention of a tutor in the household, a foreigner named Professor Bhaer.

- Oh, please don't stop, Professor. It's so beautiful.

- Thank you very much.

- What is that song? I've heard you play it before.

- It's called Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt.

- Do you understand German?

- No. No, I don't.

- The words are by a famous writer, Goethe. I will try to say them for you in English. Let's see now. 'Only who knows what longing is can know what I suffer'.

- Alone and parted, far from joy and gladness, my senses fail, a burning fire devours me.

- Oh, if only I could write something like that. Something that would set other hearts on fire.

- You truly like to write, do you not?

- Oh, it's my life, Professor!

- Sometime you will show me what you have written?

- Oh, yes.

[...]

Little Women (1950) Sound Clip

Little Women vintage book coverAudio quotes from the old-time radio play "Little Women", based on Louisa May Alcott's novel, broadcast March 13, 1950 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: June Allyson (Jo March), Janet Leigh (Meg March), Margaret O’Brien (Beth March), Rhoda Williams (Amy March), Peter Lawford (Laurie), Betty Lou Gerson (Marmee March), Robert Boone (Professor Bhaer)

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