Laura Linden

The Goethe-Institut's series with Ida, one short subtitled episode per hour of a German day, mixing grammar with the small things nobody teaches you about living here.

Germany's international broadcaster runs a full A1-to-C1 course on YouTube, including the drama series Nicos Weg, so you can keep climbing without ever leaving the channel.

Unscripted street interviews with people all over the German-speaking world, dual-subtitled in German and English so you can follow real speech long before you could handle it unaided.

Unscripted, slowly spoken monologues about everyday life in clear Hochdeutsch, with gestures and repetition doing the work instead of translation.

Pronunciation and authentic German pulled apart clip by clip, using films, series and news the way a teacher would in a lesson.

A German linguist taking on the things that stay hard at B2 and beyond: idioms, register, and writing that sounds like a native wrote it.

Two words an episode, each turned over in four example sentences, with a full transcript and vocabulary list. Slow, deliberate vocabulary building for the stretch above B1.

The German edition of the animated science channel. Made for Germans rather than for learners, but the animation carries so much of the meaning that it stays followable while the narration runs at full speed.