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Hey Matthias!

The challenge (Part One of Formatting Output) requires you to

Declare a variable named firstName and initialize it to the string returned from a call to Console.ReadLine().

Let's break it down step-by-step:

1. You want to declare a variable of type string. To do this, you need to use the word "string" in front of the variable name, like so:

string firstName; 

(Don't forget the semi-colon! C# needs these to understand where the line ends.)

1. You then want to assign it the value returned from the "Console.ReadLine()" method. To do this, simply assign (the equals operator, =) the value (the input received from the ReadLine() method) to the string variable you declared earlier (string firstName;). That's done like so:

string firstName = Console.ReadLine();

Hopefully this helps. :-)