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Any good resources to start with? (pawb.social)

submitted 9 months ago by ollie@pawb.social to c/german@lemmy.world

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I tend to do decently with digital learning, but of course stuff like duolingo sucks for number of reasons. Any good free (preferably open source) apps or websites, or any good resources? I'm also planning to look at my local library, they do have the Paul Noble audiobook. So far I've found this: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German

Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance :)

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

To imerse myself with the language I like to watch kids show in german. On YouTube I've found Total Genial, Totally Spies, H2O Plötzlich Meerjungfrau, Bibi und Tina, Code Lyoko... Kids/teens tv series have a story easy to follow from mostly the images. YouTube often have autosubtitle to go with it.

If I want to find a german title for a specific show I go on its wikipedia page and switch language to german.

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Arte has also german version and german subtitle available for almost all its show. It has also sometimes english subtitle.

All for free on arte.tv/en.

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Dw.com is a great place for beginners. It has exercices paired with video content. Such as Nicos Weg. Video content specially design for learners that are also fun are not easy to find.

There, you'll find movies and series made on purpose for learning.

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago

On YouTube there is plenty of animation channel that make shorts story for you to listen and repeat after. The episodes are usually sorted by level following the European language level framework (A1-A2 is complete beginner to false beginner)

I like Hallo Deutschschule because they are sometimes quite ironic. But they are plenty.

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