Deutsch lernen im Internet - German for Beginners

I mentioned it earlier: Listening to German songs you  really like on youtube, getting the lyrics (often avalaible as a youtube-video, too) and singinga along/learning them at heart - is a great way to improve vocabulary, syntax, intonation etc., all while having fun and getting a taste of German culture (high or low). Also: Mitsingen, auswendig lernen, Spaß haben, Deutsch verbessern, Deutschland kennenlernen. Ich bin ja alt, aber neue Gruppen sind: wise guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnA5WG39eJ8 Adel Tawil (von ich+ich) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-UFOFS7fUw Cro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsp3qpTPEzA Glasperlenspiel (Ich mag die Anspielung auf den Roman von H. Hesse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmujCADJeA Ich selbst bleibe natürlich bei Westernhagen (Lass uns leben) und Grönemeyer (Flugzeuge, Männer, Mensch)    ;) Viel Spaß!

Eine Frage, die ich heute las. Meine Antwort: Ein gutes Übungsbuch ist ein gutes Übungsbuch für jeden/alle Lerner ;)    (Englisch-sprachig oder nicht. Recommended for A1 (Beginner): Themen aktuell 1 mit CD-ROM (die CD und das Arbeitsbuch sind sehr gut für Übungen) -  "Schritte - Übungsgrammatik" - and many more, check amazon  (as long as the book was NOT written in US or UK, sorry to say - Asian or African publication are also of low quality , but one should expect decent quality from a publisher in UK/US - but all are sooo disappointing.) A2/B1/B1+  :  Der Klassiker von DREYER/SCHMITT:  Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik - aktuell Lehrbuch   by Richard Schmitt, Hilke Dreyer There should be a special version for English-Learners (another for Russian, Spanish et al.)! Advanced Learners: Übungsgrammatik für Fortgeschrittene by Dr. Barbara Scheiner, Karin Hal Alle Empfehlungen von HUEBER, ich weiß, aber die sind...

Finally, I will even mention twitter ;)  - Hey, I finished school last century! There are some active learners/teachers out-there in the web, who love to share, if they find sth. interesting/useful. I do it with this blog - they use facebook or twitter. As always: quality is mixed ... Many learners will not know, whether the stuff they found is really great, and some companies advertise their sh.. as gold. Example of the later: A tweet linked me today to this website http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/common-german-idioms/?utm_content=bufferdf8ef&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer This fluentu.com wants you to buy their videos. I would not buy, as their website is far from perfect. They show this " 20 Common German Idioms to Sound Like a Native " but you will NOT, if you use most of those - and they do not sound like a native, most of their example-sentences do NOT sound native-like. 1.  um den heißen Brei herumreden Liter...

TestDaF, das Examen um an deutschen Unis zu studieren. Natürlich nicht leicht. TestDaF 3 ist schwer wie B1(reicht vielleicht für Mathe/IT/Physik Studium), TestDaF4 ist schwer wie B2 - soll für ALLE Kurse reichen, aber manche Fakultäten wollen TestDaF 5, C1-C2. Zum Beispiel die (Zahn-)Mediziner, weil die viel zu viele Bewerber haben. Oder die Juristen, Übersetzter und Philosophen - denn da schaffen Sie das Studium nur, wenn Ihr Deutsch perfekt ist! Es gibt mehrere gute Bücher für TestDaF. Das beste ist von einem sehr kleinen Verlag: ISBN-13: 978-3930861606 Labouda-Verlag, Autor: Klaus Lodewick, 20 Euro. Der macht auch viele andere sehr gute DaF-Bücher! Manchmal mit sehr seltsamen Namen: "Barthel" ...  ;) Ohne bunte Bilder, ohne DVD, aber richtig gut. Den Mann würde ich gern mal kennenlernen. Respekt!

Hello again! Just read one of my old long posts from 2009. Still better than the new ones ;) BUT: Things are changing. A lot of new books arrived , one publisher was bought by another (Langenscheidt has only itself to blame, too many BAD books like "genial" and "optimal"), and I found a small publisher with the best TestDaF training book, I have ever seen. New books: "Aussichten" by Klett is a nice one, for adults only (many topics about job and family), not for students. AND it comes with CD, DVD, DVD-ROM all included! COOL! "Netzwerk" by Langenscheidt also has a DVD with video included. Seems to be the new standard, I like that ;). The video is about a young lady (19) doing an internship. "Menschen" by Hueber also comes with a lot of Discs, I like the book, I do not like the nonsense praise they are writing about it "newest scientific research about language learning" and then they bring old pattern-drill-exercises ...

Flirten auf Deutsch - musste sehr lachen, the videos are not that "easy", B1+ or higher, but they have subtitles in German AND English. So, have fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR-nUwV-JRw&list=PL3936178A38BB5F87&index=25

As I wrote before: Most "german courses" on youtube are disappointing. Today I found one, I own myself on DVD (or did, I lost the first). It is a professional fun video-serial with sub-titles in German, looks like a "sit-com" but is a German course to practice what you learned, till you reached A1 and A2 level. Students at B1 level can still enjoy it!  ;) (B1 and B2 should also watch   Jojo sucht das Glück  and other material at www.dw.de ) For absolute Beginners it is NOT :( Here you can find the first epsiode (and all others): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQYFFMIVJs&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL6AB67B348FBE5C2C

The Economist has just published an excellent review of online language courses. http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/06/language-learning-software It also has  a link to a review of the new rosetta stone. I consider rosetta too expensive - have heard it can be found on tpb, too. Maybe the new version is good enough, the elder ones were rather too simple to pay for it. Duolingo I never tried, but as it is free, it is worth a look. Babbel I recommended years ago - I still consider the free COMMUNITY the best feature about it: Ask others to correct your texts/homework/letters - ask what ever you did not understand about grammar etc. - there are lots of kind people out there eager to play teacher, and till you reached advanced level yourself, even an un-professional help is helpful. (I have also seen many "real" teachers not competent in explaining grammar. Believe me: They do not learn it in the German university! And abroad they learn a lot of "gramm...

Ein Leser schreibt mir heute: "Hier ist eine gute Seite für Lerner." Und das stimmt: http://www.nachrichtenleicht.de/ Hier gibt es sehr einfache und kurze News / Nachrichten. Man kann die Texte lesen UND auch HÖREN. "Schwierige" Dinge werden extra erklärt. Sehr schön für A2 und B1 ! Auch die Deutsche Welle hat so etwas, zwar schwieriger, B2/C1 aber mit Arbeitsblättern und manchmal mit Videos: http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/video-thema/s-12165 Langsam gesproche Nachrichten (Text aber nicht leicht, B1+, B2) http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/nachrichten/s-8030

Long time ago, I recommended www.babbel.com as an excellent free website, well, the online exercises were (and still are) not so excellent, but there was and is a friendly community of "teachers": People who will correct your texts and answer your questions. FOR FREE. A while ago, babbel started to restrict most material to those who pay. Not expensive, but I recommend: Get a good book. Or the Themen CD-ROM. Or the other online-stuff I mentioned here: bbc dw goethe STILL THE friendly people are there at babbel and provide help for free. Sometimes me. Seems some people like to play teacher ;) BUSUU has similar courses, as good and as bad as babbel. And for most you need to pay. But some are free, AND it is even easier and faster to get your work (texts, even audio) corrected for free. I did not find this functions as first, as I did not really do any exercises. But now I have to admit: www.busuu.com is even better than babbel. But try BOTH. (For complex grammar questio...

One of you wrote me: Hier sind noch zwei weitere tolle und vor allem lustige Seiten um Deutsch zu lernen: http://Learn-German-Easily.com Die Seite hat DaF-Übungen für Anfänger http://Leicht-Deutsch-Lernen.com Die Seite hat gemischte Übungen. ------------ Well, I am not sure they are "toll" or so super-"lustig", but they seem to be FREE AND GOOD! Danke für den Tipp!

First: Downloading copyrighted material is immoral. If you like material you should buy it. Really. Second: Downloading copyrighted material from piratebay and otheres IS ILLEGAL! If you do it in Germany you could be prosecuted and would be fined HEAVILY. A lot of lawyers and firms are ACTIVELY hunting downloaders! Third: As always there might be bad or even dangerous downloads. If you know what you do, if it is not illegal in your coutry, if you can not find/buy any good legal material in your country to learn German: Someone I met found material when he looked for a working CD-ROM IMG-file of Themen at: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2512633  at t p b / i s o h u n t for: beginners: Language learning pack German (one and two) advanced beginners: German graded readers B1/B2 German course for advanced C1/C2  spiegel (und dann auf den Seeder: papiertiger) bibliothek