What Laura Linden says to watch to learn German
Some of these are made for listening practice and some are more didactic: pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar. But the content is all in German, which is the point. If you only want to train your ear, start with Easy German, the DW channel, Falk, Kurzgesagt and 24h Deutsch.
Beginner-Intermediate
4 picks
24h Deutsch
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.
Beginner-Intermediate
Deutsch lernen mit der DW
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.
Beginner-Intermediate
Easy German
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.
Beginner-Intermediate
Learn German With Falk
Unscripted, slowly spoken monologues about everyday life in clear Hochdeutsch, with gestures and repetition doing the work instead of translation.
Beginner-Intermediate
Intermediate-Advanced
4 picks
Deutsch mit Benjamin
Pronunciation and authentic German pulled apart clip by clip, using films, series and news the way a teacher would in a lesson.
Intermediate-Advanced
Deutsch mit Rieke
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.
Intermediate-Advanced
Deutsch mit Schmidt
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.
Intermediate-Advanced
Dinge Erklärt – Kurzgesagt
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.
Intermediate-Advanced
Laura Linden teaches German at German with a Linguist. These are their own recommendations, shared with Reelang. Found this useful? See picks in other languages.