ketan_sood Newbie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4871 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes
| Message 1 of 7 13 August 2012 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
Hi ,
Any advices to improve German listening skills(complex conversations) . what can i usually listen to improve . unterwegs specially .
Thanks
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Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4959 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish
| Message 2 of 7 13 August 2012 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
Well I doubt there is any trick to learning listening skills. You just have to listen to a ton of German. You might want to try however the Slow German podcast(that's what its called, Slow German).
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beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4624 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian
| Message 3 of 7 13 August 2012 at 11:31pm | IP Logged |
Deutsche Welle has a good interview series called "Typisch Deutsch" where a range of well-known German people, from footballers to composers, discuss their life achievements.
There are also some interviews with people from other countries who live and work in Germany. Their German varies but I think it can also be a good thing to learn from non-natives.
All available on YouTube.
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Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5567 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 4 of 7 14 August 2012 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
The old fashioned techniques of listening to an ever increasing amout of input and repeating it seems work
for me - somehow forcing oneself to repeat back a long sebtence and then a paragraph or more seems to
train the ear to be more attentive in the first place.
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ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4529 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*
| Message 5 of 7 15 August 2012 at 3:13am | IP Logged |
What I did was Harry Potter L & R for 3 weeks. I of course don't understand every word I listen to (I don't even know that many), but I recognize all words I know even if the speech isn't exactly clearly spoken.
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ketan_sood Newbie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4871 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes
| Message 6 of 7 15 August 2012 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the replies . There are lots of podcasts available but very few with the transcript .
Anyone knows some resource for podcasts with trancripts ?
Thanks
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 7 of 7 15 August 2012 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
You may want to use an audiobook instead, should be easier to find.
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