#german learning

"Altes Huhn, das keine Eier mehr legen kann"

-> old chicken that cannot lay eggs anymore

"Eierlegende Eierlegende am Eierlegende"

-> Eierlegende - egglaying

-> Eier-Legende - egg legend

So part of my joy at passing the German B2 Beruf exam on my first attempt comes from the realization that I can now say to the person who spent their whole life picking my brain with comments like “you're stupid and I'm smart” GIT TF GUD because they couldn't pass this B2 Beruf test even after three attempts and almost 3 years of studying.

Eh, but to be clear, strangely enough, Git Gud's logic (learn the boss's mechanics, find your weaknesses, compensate for them) fits perfectly here, because well. I told them this, and I'm telling you:

Look at the part you failed (or simply really weak at), and practice it/them.

It sounds obvious, I know it sounds obvious — but I watched day after day as they did nothing but write and read. And I really wanted to knock them on the head and ask, quite rudely: “Did you fail reading? Did you fail writing? No, three times in a row you only failed listening, so why the hell aren't you listening to german stuff on Youtube (they were constantly watching videos there, but only in our native language), only reading and writing?!”

To be honest, that's my message - “Listen to silly videos in German.” They don't have to be sophisticated, they don't have to be difficult — they should be able to train your brain so that you understand the meaning without translation, and in the case of Bad Speakers Who Saw Brezhnev on the test day — also be able to fill in the parts you didn't hear/understand.

And trust me, you will get a lot more out of silly german lets plays that you'll put on 1.5 speed, then outta pages and pages of reading, if listening is the part that you are struggling with.

My personal faves:

Lord Pappnase (gothic game letsplays/challange videos)

Ein Holzkopf (random talking videos, great to pick up concepts)

2homiedawgs (silly videos with animals and german voice overs)

so we were talking about this thing called “miku plastics” and i kept googling it and trying to figure out what the fuck that means

Hello! Thank you for the ask! 🫶🏻🩷✨ Here are some resources to learn German:

Textbooks

grammar

vocabulary

idioms: 1 , 2 , 3

Listening comprehension

coffee break german

coffee break german advanced

news in slow german

german stories-learn german with stories

Youtube channels

24h Deutsch

Lingster Academy

Easy german

Reading comprehension