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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4620 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 17 of 19 27 January 2013 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Maïwenn: Regarding podcasts: Deutsche Welle has a bunch of ones at different levels. A videocast I like (because it's pretty easy to understand) is from ZDF (TV broadcaster) LOGO Nachrichten (news for kids, ~10 minutes or so). There are also lots of Hörspiele ( radio plays) you can find on line. I started with the ones for children, although sometimes the vocabulary can be surprisingly sophisticated even if the sentence structures are not, but you could listen to little Red Riding Hood or something and pick up lots of language since you know the story so well.
The German radio stations like NDR have some good podcasts as well, but you might have to work up to these. A plus there is that they often have transcripts. Audiobooks can be good too, but as you say, you must make sure the level is right. Initially I was only able to comfortably read graded readers with simplified vocabulary and luckily a few of those had accompanying cds. With an audiobook you can listen to the same snippet over and over, which helps if the level is slightly above what is comfortable for you. If you look on itunes or whatever the android equivalent is, you should be able to find a few things to try out. Viel Spaß beim Lernen! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elsinore13 Groupie United States Joined 4974 days ago 41 posts - 53 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 18 of 19 27 January 2013 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am working out to Zumba Total Body Fitness (yeah! I fell for it, but it's been fun so far).
I bought it from here: http://www.buy.com/prod/zumba-fitness-total-body-transformat ion-system-dvd-set/225167014.html Buy.com is a big "mall" online, so I don't know if their vendor is German based or what. But it was a very pleasant surprise. Now I'm so used to the German dubs, that when I heard the DVD in English I was like "eww, I don't like their voices in English"! LOL! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Maïwenn Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4367 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Mandarin, Breton | Message 19 of 19 28 January 2013 at 12:34am | IP Logged | ||
Oh! I love Zumba!! I'm going to have to check that out.
Haha too funny. :) Similarly, for some reason, dubbing in German doesn't bother me at all, but I can't stand dubbing in French. @BAnna, thank you for the recommendations. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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