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How improve German listening skills

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ketan_sood
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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