🇦🇹 🇩🇪 German Recommended Material

Pronunciation (Click to open)

  • Musicians and sportspeople know: unlearning mistakes is very difficult
  • Learn the grammar right from the beginning, with these long videos by Fluent Forever.
  • Watch them in the beginning, and rewatch them in a few weeks.

And if you want a video about the most annoying “R” sound, you can get help here.

And one extra one for the Umlaute: Ä, Ö, Ü

Here are some basic first phrases

You can start by yourself with these two sets of phrases.

  • Basic phrases with greetings
  • Basics for introducing yourself

You’ll memorise your first words and sentence structures. You can use them in your first lesson and conversation. They’ll help you get a feeling for the language.

Follow the phrases link. Download the app. Create an app account. Re-open the link. Download and practice the phrases.

https://phrases.lingophant.com/5d195458-d7fc-468d-a270-a87df4ab3f6d/deutsch-1-basic-phrases

https://phrases.lingophant.com/2e5919b1-b612-4a7d-99d4-6a5bdee10969/deutsch-2-introducing-yourself

And here’s Listening-Reading

How to watch German content and learn to understand words and sounds:

Start right away with this video:

You can watch it two times, reading along in both languages. There’s a certain brain state of being able to focus on both at the same time.

Try watching, rewatching, writing down words.

Try to spend 30-60 minutes with videos like this each week.

Put links in a note, together with useful words. And rewatch them in the future (also only with audio if you like).

Listening-Reading Channels

Check out the following channels:

Content for learners:

Content for native speakers:

Documentaries:

Politics:

Trivia:

Intro to language context by LangFocus