German group

[Kraut]

tagesschau in Einfacher Sprache
https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/se ... e-108.html

There are some funny words that nobody uses
"Minister für Recht" instead of Justizminister
I don't think I can recommend it but it might be ok for easy basic listening

[Doitsujin]

There are some funny words that nobody uses "Minister für Recht" instead of Justizminister

What "Leichte Sprache" synonym would you have picked???

I found the many repeated tautologies, e.g. "das Land XXX," a bit annoying. Of course, I'm not an expert for "Leichte Sprache," but I think that the target demographic might have figured out from the video clips that the news segment was about a foreign country.

The reporting itself was also a bit underwhelming. For example, in the report about the German team, the newscaster said "Das deutsche Team will gewinnen." Really? Who would have thunk it.

I'm curious to learn whether German beginners find these news clips helpful.

[Kraut]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxntgmVgJ0Q

200 Years of German Immigration in Brazil

On July 25, 1824, 39 German emigrants arrived in São Leopoldo, southern Brazil, establishing their own colony. Two centuries later, DW reporter Guilherme Becker, whose ancestors emigrated to Rio Grande do Sul, embarks on a personal quest to uncover their story.

Guilherme explores why many Germans, including his grandparents, left their homeland in the 19th and 20th centuries. He learns about the Brazilian government's motivations for encouraging immigration, its connection to the end of slavery, and the impact on the Afro-Brazilian population. In São Paulo, he visits a museum preserving the history of these settlers, and in Pomerode, he meets descendants maintaining their ancestors' lifestyle and language.

In Blumenau, founded in 1850 by Hermann Blumenau, Guilherme discovers the town’s rich German heritage, symbolized by its annual Oktoberfest, and visits an indigenous community affected by colonial land seizure. He also delves into his family's loss of the German language and the role of Nazism. Guilherme visits the Jewish Museum in São Paulo to learn about Jewish exiles helped after the Nazis' rise to power.

Back in Berlin, Guilherme meets Brazilian nurse Thaiana Santos at Charité University Hospital, highlighting the modern parallels of immigration and recruitment.

Join Guilherme on this journey through history, family, and the enduring impacts of immigration in Brazil.

[Kraut]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fORtNLGXrwE



Learn every German word you need to know to be fluent (+:14,000 words) https://communities.kajabi.com/natura...

Many thanks to Owen Harris (@tovarris ) for creating the vocabulary list.

Audio files will be available soon.

You know the drill:
1. Memorise words with associations
2. Listen to audio files on repeat
3. Review list with speed reading
4. Retrieval practice for error correction and speaking fluency

[coldrainwater]

I ran across the karl-may-gesellschaft.de and briefly explored some original texts. The website quality, accessibility and text presentation impressed me enough to share. It is the type of resource I would have liked to find sooner. It might be good for learners who hit it off with the author. Thousands of pages are available, and May is an interesting part of German cultural history. I haven't seen the link posted yet on our boards. As a general search note, checking for dedicated author pages and societies often pays dividends. It is an idea that seems to hold across many languages.

[Kraut]

https://www.zdf.de/sport/sportstudio-li ... n-100.html

German Cup first round: Ulm vs Bayern

Learners may be interested in the second audio channel which offers "audiodescription"

[Le Baron]

I found this video most interesting. I've heard dialect speech like this before in Belgium, but never been able to dig deep into it. My grandparents deliberately moved to this region after the war, then further down into Wallonie. Anyone familiar with both German and Dutch (and some French) will feel the dialect jumping around and mostly sounding like German, sometimes sounding more Flemish. Such as the conjugations for sein, which are similar to the Flemish 'zijt' in sound. With the hard German 'G' you can see she follows the Flemish way of softening it to a 'Y' or 'J' sound. They also have a little Dutch conversation. The platt speaker says she also understands Kölnisch dialect somewhat.

[MaggieMae]

They also have videos comparing Swiss German, Dutch, and others. I really like their side by side comparisons.

[O1000]

Hi everyone, I'm a native German speaker. I can‘t say much about German learning resources yet, although I‘ve just started an online programme at the Goethe Institut in „Deutsch als Zweitsprache.” But you can ask me anything.

I have a question for you: As you‘ve got some experience speaking German in Germany to Germans, how do you cope with the many dialects we have?

[Kraut]

PLAIDOYER FÜR EINE VERGESSENE MINDERHEIT:
DIE DEUTSCHSPRACHIGE BEVÖLKERUNG IM BERNER JURA
German minority speakers in the Swiss Canton of Jura
http://www.bernerland.ch/sprachkreis/ka ... -jura.html