Day One German | Beginner News-Focused German Course
by LinguaWire · 20 episodes
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German Day One is a 20-episode beginner German podcast for absolute beginners who want to understand slow German news. No prior German is needed.Visit https://linguawire.com/dayone/german for all learning materials and homework to test your knowledge.In five minutes a day, learn the essential German words, verbs, phrases, grammar patterns, and listening skills you need to start listening to our main podcast - LinguaWire A1 German news. In that feed, we post a new episode every day discussing the latest real news stories, in simple A1 German.This podcast is perfect for learners who are just...
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Day 5: German plurals and the umlaut
Get the learning sheet and homework at www.linguawire.com/dayone. Today closes week one with professions, strikes, and German plurals. You’ll learn words like doctors and teachers,…
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Day 4: Big German numbers are Lego
Get the learning sheet and homework at www.linguawire.com/dayone. News loves numbers, and German numbers are built like Lego. In this episode, you’ll learn hundert, tausend, zehnta…
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Day 3: Der, die, das — never learn a naked noun
Get the learning sheet and homework at www.linguawire.com/dayone. Today is the famous German article day: der, die, das. Instead of trying to make German gender “make sense,” you’l…
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Day 2: The verb haben — and why nouns wear capitals
Get the learning sheet and homework at www.linguawire.com/dayone. Today you learn your second essential German verb: haben — to have. Felix and Leonie show how haben helps you talk…
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Day 20: Graduation: your first German news bulletin
The Day One German finale, with Felix and Leonie. Graduation day: a full German news bulletin, election, heatwave, strike, sport, built entirely from the last twenty days, read twi…
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Day 19: How to read German headlines
Episode nineteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, the penultimate episode. Headlines don't speak full German; they speak telegram: no articles, often no verb. Today you le…
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Day 18: The German future with wird — and the will trap
Episode eighteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Yesterday the past, today the future: werden plus a verb at the end, the bracket again. Plus the business kit (the compan…
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Day 17: The sentence bracket: past tense, part two
Episode seventeen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. A milestone: your first full two-sentence news story, exactly as breaking news is written. Today: the earthquake (a comp…
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Day 16: The German past tense: the ge- hug
Episode sixteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Final week. News is mostly about things that already happened, so today you learn to RECOGNISE the German past: haben plus…
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Day 15: German question words — wer, was, wo, wann, warum
Episode fifteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, the week-three finale. News exists to answer questions, so today you get the question kit: wer, was, wo, wann, warum, wie,…
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Day 14: Kein vs nicht — the two German no's
Episode fourteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Bad news is news, and bad news is full of negatives. Today's quirk is genuinely useful grammar in disguise: German has tw…
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Day 13: Days, months and seasons in German
Episode thirteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Every news story is pinned to a date. Today: the seven days (six of which end in -tag, and then there's Wednesday), the v…
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Day 12: Kommen, gehen, fahren — and nach for countries
Episode twelve of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. People moving, to festivals, to borders, to safety, is half the news. Today: kommen, gehen, fahren, twenty-five countries a…
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Day 11: Sagen and your first German comparison
Episode eleven of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Week three is the verb week, and it opens with the single most-used verb in German news: sagen, to say. Plus the news colon…
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Day 10: Football German — spielen, das Tor, gewinnen
Episode ten of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, you're halfway! Sport closes every bulletin: today you learn the team, the match, to play, to win, to lose, and the quirk that…
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Day 9: Money in German — and the unbending Euro
Episode nine of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. The story that never leaves the front page: the cost of living. Today: prices, money, more and less, expensive and cheap, the…
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Day 8: Welded words — Flughafen, Hauptbahnhof
Episode eight of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Transport chaos is a news perennial, today you learn the trains, the airport, open and closed, and the most famous thing abo…
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Day 7: Es gibt — how German says "there is"
Episode seven of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Every news broadcast on earth ends the same way, the weather. Today: it is forty degrees, hot and cold, the four compass dir…
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Day 6: Election German — die Wahl, wählen, der Wähler
Episode six of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Week two begins: one news domain a day, starting with the biggest, politics. Today: the election, the word-family trick (learn…
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Day 5: German plurals and the umlaut
Episode five of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, the week-one finale. Today: fifteen professions, the half-dozen ways German makes a plural (and the one island of calm), and…