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Five months to get to B1 German
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LebensForm
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Message 17 of 22

27 September 2011 at 4:07pm | IP Logged

Ya... significant others just don't understand... but maybe it had something to do with putting off sex for studying German... ahh it makes a better partner for me anyway, it won't desert me...
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EricsonWillians
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Message 18 of 22

28 September 2011 at 5:06am | IP Logged

LebensForm wrote:

Ya... significant others just don't understand... but maybe it had
something to do with putting off sex for studying German... ahh it makes a better partner
for me anyway, it won't desert me...

hahaha.. I had another girlfriend after that one, and I certainly could organize my
routine in a way that I could do a lot of sex and learn a lot of German. The Girlfriend
that I've mentioned used to learn German too, so, it was possible to achieve both things.
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Dr. POW
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Studies: French

Message 19 of 22

28 September 2011 at 3:25pm | IP Logged

No Comment.

Also, is there something similar to a French version of that German Graded Readers
Collection?
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Sunja
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Message 20 of 22

28 September 2011 at 4:21pm | IP Logged

Dr. POW wrote:

Also, is there something similar to a French version of that German Graded Readers Collection?

Volte's post is really good.

Have you tried the Compact Lernkrimis? They're for adults, so there are usually more words than what you would normally get with the kid's books. They also rank them according to the CEFR levels so you can easily incorporate the books into whatever other materials/programs you're using. I have Stirb, mon amour! which is B1 and comes with a CD.
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Jeffers
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Message 21 of 22

28 September 2011 at 6:24pm | IP Logged

montmorency wrote:

Hi Randwulf,

As you are listening to Deutsche Welle (which I think is brilliant, by the way):

I can't remember if the slow news is one of the services that comes with transcripts,
but if it isn't, try also listening to some of the ones that do. "Alltagdeutsch" is one
such; about 15-20 mins per podcast, and it explores the odd-corners of the language,
which you don't necessarily need to know at your stage, but of course in explaining
them they use regular German which is useful in everyday situations - the obscure stuff
just makes it more interesting. Anyway, the transcripts can be found under the
"Additional Information" (or similar wording) link, and can be downloaded as a PDF, and
the audio downloaded as MP3. There is a massive archive of stuff as well.

You can experiment on how to use it, e.g. listen and read at the same time; read first
then listen; listen first, then read, then listen again....etc. If you really get
stuck, you could put the text through google translate, but I doubt if you will need
to. You should get by with just a dictionary for the words you don't get.

In the past, I've listened to a lot of foreign language radio without really
understanding it, hoping it would come by osmosis, but while that can help with your
accent, intonation, etc, and with recognising individual words, if you are not careful,
it can slow down progress, and as you have a deadline to consider, you don't want too
many barriers to progress.

Good luck and have fun while learning.

Alltagsdeutsch looks like it would be good, but DW ranks it at level C1-2. But they have loads of other stuff at B level, including a video "webopera" series called Jojo sucht das Glück . The videos can be watched online or downloaded as mp4's, and have German subtitles. You can also download pdf's including the full transcript and "Grammatik aus Aufgaben".

The rest of their B1 level material is all linked from this page.
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MarcusOdim
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Message 22 of 22

29 September 2011 at 10:30pm | IP Logged

Forget about Pimsleur, it sucks
Try reading more news, listening to music and reading their lyrics

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