Hörverstehen / Listening

In this area you find further resources to help you improve your listening skills.

Radio D

The Radio D language course, provided by Deutsche Welle, is made up of two series, each containing 26 fifteen-minute episodes. It focuses on listening comprehension and allows you to listen to the episodes while reading the manuscripts. For more general information on Radio D please click here.

Slow German

Slow German is a private podcast for students of the German language – especially for those who already have intermediate skills. Slow German was created by Annik Rubens aka Larissa Vassilian, a journalist from Munich, Germany.

Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten

Deutsche Welle’s Slow Spoken News offers current daily news from all over the world from Monday to Saturday. The slowly and comprehensibly spoken audio trains listening comprehension. In addition, the full text is available for reading along. The audio file can also be downloaded. German-level: intermediate B1.

Nachrichtenleicht.de

Nachrichtenleicht provides news in simple language. Every Friday, the most important news of the week are published in the afternoon. The news on the nachrichtenleicht page are provided by the radio station Deutschlandfunk.

Lyrikline

On Lyrikline, authors from all over the world read their own poems (texts are provided). Here you can find poems in lots of languages, not only in German.

Dánnerstag

“Dánnerstag” is a new and innovative poetry project by the Centre for Irish-German Studies and introduces German language poetry and its Irish language translations to a local, national, and international audience.

Following in a long tradition of cultural and linguistic exchange between the German and Irish languages, we believe the project is aptly named: dán in “Dánnerstag” means poem in Irish, and Donnerstag means Thursday in German.

You can watch all contributions free of charge here and here.

Deutsch to go

Deutsch to go has over 700 audio files with more are added regularly. You can choose between the level A, B, and C. For each level, there are many different topics to choose from. You can listen to the audios and then do exercises related to them. One of the tasks is always about the content, and one is about other features such as prepositions or definitions of used expressions.

Deutschlerner-Blog

Deutschlerner-Blog provides listening comprehension exercises from level A1 to C1. There are also weblinks to literary texts and special recommendations.

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