German vocabulary

March 23, 2006 1:15 AM

Where can I get hold of German vocabulary lessons/lists on cd or mp3?

Apart from Michel Thomas's vocabulary builder, most of the commercial German courses I have found focus on grammar. Now I want to improve my vocabulary, preferably using my iPod. Are there any good vocabulary lessons on the Internet as downloadable files or available commercially? I have had some success making my own vocabulary lists using a dictaphone and converting the files to mp3 format, but my pronunciation is not that good and I would prefer to listen to a native speaker.

posted by booksprite to writing & language (5 comments total)

There are free German courses here with downloadable mp3 and PDF files.
posted by pracowity at 4:26 AM on March 23, 2006

You may find something on these sites:
BBC Learn German
German for Beginners: a free online German course
My Language Exchange
Learn German Online
Fokus Deutsch
Deutsche Welle's slowly-spoken news reports
posted by KathyK at 6:26 AM on March 23, 2006

This isn't striclty vocabulary, but there are some great ideas in here for anyone trying to learn any language, including ripping the audio tracks from the foreign-language soundtracks of sitcoms and movies.
posted by rachelv at 6:59 AM on March 23, 2006

There's a company called ClipTip which offers both a free German vocab podcast with about 5 words a day and a paid download of german words as English > German or German > English in mp3 format. It comes in two varieties, a smaller and a larger one (which has 5000+ words), and at the current exchange rate the larger one goes for $22.19 US.
posted by Frankieist at 1:26 PM on April 1, 2006

Many thanks, Frankieist - just what I was looking for. I have purchased the larger podcast and am looking forward to practising with it.
posted by booksprite at 8:37 AM on April 4, 2006