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courses for learning different aspects of German
vocabulary. Again, don’t make the mistake of trying too many of
their courses at once. Stick with what’s reasonable to manage without
burning out.
The Memrise staff have actually made a set of curated German courses that lead you
through a variety of different conversational topics. Here’s German 1 and German 6 for
comparison.
Another great choice is one of the courses focused on collocations, like this one based on
verb-preposition pairs.
Lingvist
This is a simple, interactive course that slowly teaches you grammar
and vocabulary through examples.
With the free trial, you can learn new words daily (up to 3,000) and
complete a daily language challenge. You’ll also get access to
Lingvist’s community of language learners. If you love this program
you can continue using it with an upgrade to Lingvist unlimited.
2. Government Resources
German self-studiers can take advantage of comprehensive, high-quality public
resources from the German and U.S. governments!
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (DW) has a huge wellspring of German content that’s
funded by the German government. You can browse their language
courses by level from the homepage, or take their placement test to
figure out the best place for you to start.
They have lots of other engaging study materials, too. One of their
best audio courses is Deutsch — warum nicht? (German — why not?),
which comes in the form of over 100 lessons that take you to a lower

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intermediate level while you just sit back and relax.
Langsam Gesprochene Nachrichten (Slowly Spoken News) is another
excellent resource from DW. Every day, Slowly Spoken News chooses
one brief news segment and has a narrator read it aloud with a very
slow and clear voice.
The vocabulary and usage are simplified only slightly, but the slow
rate of speech makes it an ideal bridge from the beginner to the
intermediate level.