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In one of the greatest stories ever told, district attorney Betty Bates, “Lady-at-Law,” arrests a guy for whistling at her because he’s breaking public nuisance laws.

This is in 1947!!!

All was well…or is it??!!1 Albus discovers a secret, and who is the beautiful girl with silver hair who calls herself Augury? Time travel AU don’t like don’t read!

As you are going into Year 10 you are going to be doing the 9-1 specification in Maths, English, Science and maybe other subjects.

MATHS - even if you are doing 9-1 you should do the A*- G past papers as the most content will still be covered

For 9-1 mock papers click here (your school might be using these internal exams later on)

For A*- G past papers HIGHER here    FOUNDATION  here

SCIENCE

For 9-1 mock papers click here

You should also look on your exam board’s website for A*- G past papers.

OCR CORE click here         OCR ADDITIONAL click here

ENGLISH

Since I made a post about Russian Podcasts, I thought I’d do one about German ones too.  Many you can find on  iTunes, on Android using Pocket Casts, or on their own websites/RSS feed. There are several more podcasts in German, but here are a few.

Language Learning

Das tägliche Wort 

German GrammarPod

Germanlingq: Includes transcripts

GermanPod101: also has a youtube channel

German-Podcast: Includes transcripts

Learn German by Podcast: Transcripts must be bought, but free to listen.

My Daily Phrase German

Pukka German: Colloquial German and slang.

The Stammtisch: In German and English

Listening For Beginners-Intermediates

Andrea erzählt (Deutsch): A2-B1. Includes transcripts.

Coffee Break German: Listening and grammar. Extra material must be bought.

DaZPod

Deutsch – warum nicht?: A1-B1 with transcripts.

Grüße aus Deutschland : Includes transcripts

Hallo bei Logo: video podcasts

Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten: B2-C1. Includes transcripts.

Radio D: A1-A2 with transcripts.

Slow German: Includes transcripts

Step Into German: Music, film, soccer and Germany. Includes transcripts.

Twilingo: Includes transcripts

German Only

Anerzähler: Random stories and facts

CRE: Technology, culture or society.

Deutschlandradio: News, current events, culture. Includes transcripts.

Der Explikator:Movies, science, entertainment, and history.  Includes transcripts.

Das geheime Kabinett: Historical mysteries

Das Podcast UFO: Comedy

Forschergeist: Education and sciene

Geschichtenkapsel: Audio stories

Hörsuppe: Collection of several German podcasts.

Jung und Naiv: Current events

IQ - Wissenschaft und Forschung: Science

In Trockenen Büchern: Literature

Omega Tau: Technology

PSYCHO TALK : Psychology

Sanft & Sorgfältig: Satire about everything

SBS German: News, culture

Stevinho Talks: Gaming, soccer, movies

Stay Forever: Video games

Tagesschau Audio: News

Tsundoku: Books and reading

Weltenflüstern : Literature

for @flutterbumbutt​ ^__~

the basics

german-grammar.de

grammar on lingola.com

1000 most frequent German words

there’s german grammar books in this folder

my fav dictionary (has audo files for most words)

linguee.de (find a translation of your word in context)

german course on dw.com, lots of extra material, lots of videos

practice

with music videos

verb conjugation

memrise courses

duolingo

books & stories

Der kleine Prinz

a bunch of children’s books

Nils Holgersson

Max und Moritz

fairytales

websites

a children’s lexicon

Blinde-Kuh.de

zzzebra (a children’s web-magazine)

tagesschau.de (news)

@official-deutschland (v important)

@official-german-translationen

audio

some songs w/ lyrics and videos

my own playlists on 8tracks

Slow German Podcast

children’s songs

videos (mostly children’s shows)

german youtubers (post by @portug-easy​)

Tom und das Erdbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig

Wissen macht Ah!

Löwenzahn

Siebenstein

Jim Knopf

If you prefer to learn through audio, these books are great for you.

Otherwise, I like 

Basic German

Deutsch Heute

Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik  (what I use)

Schaum’s Outlines of German Grammar

Teach Yourself German

German version of funwithlanguages​‘ You only need ~200 words to talk about everyday things list. I added a few things that weren’t on the original list like to help, to play, to read, on, not, etc.

Learning this list in conjunction with some grammar and additional vocabulary, you’ll be able to express most everyday things and be understood. Viel Spaß! (have fun!) :D

VERBS

Click on a verb to see it conjugated.

to be: sein

to be called: heißen

to have: haben

to do: tun - machen

to make (create): machen 

to make (sb do sthg): veranlassen

to be going to - to become: werden

would be going to: Konjunktiv ii of werden

to go: gehen

to come: kommen

to say: sagen

to speak: sprechen

to talk: reden

to know (facts): wissen

to know (person): kennen

to think: denken (think) - glauben (believe)

to want: wollen

to like: mögen

This is part of my guide on how to start learning a language more quickly. You can find the guide homepage here.

You can express yourself surprisingly flexibly when you know 300 well-chosen words (and grammar) in a language. (By “words”, I really mean lemmas, i.e. I’m counting “run” and “runs” as one word.) When trying to talk about a topic, there will probably be some key words that you don’t know, but you can ask for or look up those words and then use them for the rest of the time that you’re talking about the topic. You can see an example of how using the 300 words works.

Here’s the list of 300. I hope it’s a useful guideline and starting point for you. I may revise it, so please refer to the original post for the most up-to-date version. In addition to these general words, there will probably be some others that will be among the most useful for you (e.g. “class” if you’re a student). When you find yourself using them again and again, learn them too.

* Note: You should really think of this as a list of concepts. Your goal isn’t to translate each word to a word in your target language, but to figure out how to express that concept in your target language. In some cases, a concept may translate to multiple words (for example, I listed “you” as a concept, but in some languages there are different words for “formal you” and “informal you”). Some concepts may translate to no word at all, but rather a certain grammatical structure (for example, Russian doesn’t use the verb “have”; to say “I have a cat” in Russian, you say “at me there is a cat”).

Use a dictionary to find out how to express these concepts in your target language (for some subtleties, you’ll need to google or ask in a forum). After that, I suggest memorizing the words by making yourself a Memrise course with the words and going through the course. Learn to be able to go from the concept to the word in your target language, not the other way around; you want to be able to produce the word, not just recognize it. You should also learn how to pronounce your target language. To hear native speakers pronounce words in your target language, check out Forvo.

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This list has been translated into: Cantonese, Finnish, French, Spanish.

Version 1 of this list, which had 200 words, was translated into: Afrikaans, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai.

If you’d like to translate this list into another language, please feel free! :) Just include a link back to this post, and let me know when you’re done so that I can link to your list here.

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First Verbs

be

there is

have

do

go

want

can

need

think

know

say

like

speak

learn

understand