Podcasts

Podcast s for Gina

Since you learned German and your native language is English I recommend you the following website for learning German on a basic level:

www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2548,00.html

The podcast "Deutsch - Warum nicht?" is designed for beginners and there is a series and it is about the journalism student Andreas and his adventures.

Each series has got a manual of how to use the podcasts, summary, grammar, translations and 26 audio stories that are easy to follow and contain different situations so that you could enrich your vocabulary.

There are exercises, dialogues and you can learn German with interesting and funny audio material. It contains authentic language but the dialogues are rather simple. Nonetheless, the language is creative and varied.

The good thing is that the instructions are in English so that you can navigate the site easily and it is also progressive. After you worked through the beginner series you could move on to the intermediate level.
I don't know if you like the stories but you learn a lot about German culture, places and there are some good expressions that you might use in real communicative situation.
So try it out!