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German learning thread [Part 1]

Name: Anonymous 2013-09-29 15:43

Hey! This thread is for people learning German! Post here whenever you have a problem with something.. Or just chat in German!

●Useful Stuff

German-English dictionary:
http://www.dict.cc/



Note: This list is incomplete. Please add your useful tools like dictionaries and other sites

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-01 5:19

Sup people! Germany reporting in.
I got this link for you guys: http://www.youtube.com/user/DeutschFuerEuch/videos

She's a great teacher!

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-04 14:52

English-German dictionary:
http://dict.leo.org/
Deutsch-Deutsch Dictionary:
http://www.dwds.de/
German dictionary with focus on grammar and usage:
http://www.canoo.net/

Some German sites I read regularly are
http://heise.de/ (tech news)
http://jungefreiheit.de/ (national and international news)
http://sezession.de/ (journal about politics and culture, with a right-wing slant; they offer free downloads of the older issues of their print magazine as .pdf's)

Some good text-heavy German computer games are
The Book of Unwritten Tales
The Whispered World
Deponia
and the Gothic series.
You can watch gameplay videos of these games on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKyeyhR6OHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjAgjh___fU
Here's a list of notable German computer games up until 2011:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Spiele-Thema-239104/Specials/Made-in-Germany-Die-wichtigsten-PC-Spiele-aus-Deutschland-Artikel-der-Woche-681808/

Some good German-language movies are
Cargo
Das Leben der Anderen
Der Untergang
Das Boot
Das Experiment

This site offers tons of old German books and films for download:
http://nsl-archiv.com/Buecher/Bis-1945/heil.php
http://nsl-archiv.org/Filme/Bis-1945/heil.php
Many other old and modern German movies can be found on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6JsVNUh4UA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1zIds7deY

As for literature, some of my favorite books from the 20th century are Perfume and Im Westen Nichts Neues, and then there are Goethe's Faust and Schiller's Die Räuber.

Bands that make German-language music I like include
Odroerir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjGq8Et0YbA
Menhir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laq2TrCfwbM
Falkenstein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jclzC6S8Sus
Faun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY2SVSkMN8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpctpUHZ6Oc
Swantje Swanhwit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQVXq7GC0lI
Jännerwein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrwsw1XMI4
And I'm a fan of old German Landsknecht songs (they obviously use a lot of outdated vocabulary):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0p-egT5vek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08g_IcFXLcM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGz_SqyEJ-Y

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-04 21:28

>>2
Sie ist süß.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-18 9:14

National and international News:
http://www.faz.net/

Overall information regarding media

Most things I'll try to cover won't be 3D or real life stuff like dramas, movies, etc. since this doens't interrest me and I can't give information regarding something I don't know about.

But, well, if you're interrested in movies, go ahead and see if there's a german dub for it. Most of the time there will be one and it'll be good/decent. German dubs are pretty amazing.


Some well-known Anime/Cartoon (there are plenty more)
Alfred J. Kwak
Heidi
Ducktales
Darkwing Duck
Pinocchio
Almost all of the Ghibli movies
Puschel
Pipi Langstrumpf
Nils Holgerson
Biene Maja


As you can tell, most of them aren't German. It's either a dub or a co-production with another country (i.e. Heidi)

In case you're able to watch KIKA, do it. When I was still a little kid they broadcasted many anime for kids, I don't know how the things are nowadays, I'd have to give it a look.

If you're interrested in recent anime, forget it. That's all. Avoid doujinshi if you don't want to read really stupid and akward stuff.

Manga, however, is pretty ok. Yotsubato, for example, is pretty well translated and really cute, you really can't do anything wrong with reading german Yotsuba. Just as for anime: older, well known manga (Azumanga, Yotsuba, etc.) are better than recent ones. The german translations are also very late, so reading/watching german magna/anime is really troublesome.

Are you interrested in Let's Plays? Forget it. The let's play scene is really shit nowadays.
But if you're still interrested go and watch some ``old" videos (2009 - 2011 or early 2012) by PhunkRoyal, TheEmero, Aligator1024 and people connected to them. Overall, it's really shit.

In case you want to play the games yourself, buy them from Austria. Why from Austria? Germany's consorship laws or whatever are pretty fucked to the shit. They censor many things such as dead people dissapearing instead of lying around on the ground. But be carefull of regional lockout or whatever it's called (Europe: PAL)

Television overall is very shitty. But there are some things to look out for:

NEVER watch RTL except you want to see the most pitful people in Germany
NEVER watch RTL2 (they used to broadcast relatively new anime like Wan Piss, Nuruto but also good stuff like Digimon disregarding that, they are just as shit as RTL
TELE5 is pretty good, it sometimes has DB and DBZ or martial art movies and western movies.

Some german imageboards are krautchan.net, which is pretty shit and ernstchan.com, which I never used but I presume is's also shit.
There was that one textboard which is dead now, it was called 3-ch.net, IIRC. You can check it out on the internet archive.

I hope this was everything.
Viel Glück beim Deutschlernen!

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-21 18:37

Will be keeping my eye on this thread. Thanks for all the sources!

Name: Anonymous 2013-11-12 2:48

A question about the Romanization of 四天王. I've always wondered why it's Romanized as "Shitennou" or "Shiten'nou", rather than "Shitenou". Why does that second "n" pop in?

Name: Anonymous 2013-11-12 2:51

Whoops, sorry about >>7, wrong thread.

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