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Question: German vocabulary

booksprite — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:15:38 -0800

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.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:26:14 -0800

There are free German courses here with downloadable mp3 and PDF files.

By: KathyK

KathyK — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:26:16 -0800

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

By: rachelv

rachelv — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:59:03 -0800

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.

By: Frankieist

Frankieist — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:26:18 -0800

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.

By: booksprite

booksprite — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:37:35 -0800

Many thanks, Frankieist - just what I was looking for. I have purchased the larger podcast and am looking forward to practising with it.