Thread 214735058

i have been trying to learn german for 1.5 years now and finding proper TV/BOOKS/Movies is hard. It's also very rare to come across german speaker on internet.

I pretty much force myself to engage in some kind of german enviroment at this point. i change video games i play, or movies i watch, to german. I think if i picked french or spanish i would've had less hard time in this special aspect.

the only good thing Germans have made in a decade is Babylon berlin

They are lazy now

>>214735058 (OP)
germans dub everything

>>214735075
>>214735094
My problem, i have is finding good content
>No good podcasts
>no good series (there are few but very rare plus they're super short)
>no popular vidya (i cant even remember last time they made one)
i feel they exported more in the early 2000s

>>214735187
Will i be able to understand little norsk or swedish if i master german?

>>214735058 (OP)
Go to Germany or Austria if you want media in German.

>>214735288
i guess.
i can understand a little written german just kinda by default.

>>214735350
Which germanic language is the most unversal among your family? I assume danish they understand english as well

>>214735296
i visit germany almost every year for like a 1-2 months

>>214735459
i'm not sure i understand your question.
we all understand english

>>214735533
Like which germanic language speaker understand other germanic languages the most.

>>214735585
ah. yeah, i think danish is a good guess.
danes understand norwegian and swedish, and most of the ones i've met have been decent in german as well.
the swedes cant understand danes, and some swedes cant understand norwegian.
and i guess we'd be just below the danes. maybe.

i'm not to familiar with the others, but i don't think they have as much inate understanding of the family

>>214735229
>>No good podcasts
SRF Sternstunde Philosophie
WDR 5 Das philosophische Radio
SWR Das Wissen
SWR1 Leute
BR Radiowissen

>>214735711
Are swedish and norsk really that different? You guys border each other

>>214735075
the tv show Dark is great

>>214736379
norsk is much closer to danish.
northern swedish is closer to norsk than the rest of it, for some reason.

but no, it's not THAT different. we can, for the most part understand the swedes perfectly

>>214735288
Not really. German speakers can inherently understand maybe 50% of written dutch (more if you also know english), very little of other written germanic languages and basically nothing if it is spoken.

>>214735058 (OP)
I would've recommended you to just play dialogue heavy games like Fallout 3 with a voiceover, but you said you're already doing that.

>>214735058 (OP)
There are a gorillion german yt channels.
>TV
ARD and ZDF each have their own mediathek online, it's completely free (maybe need a german vpn to access, dunno)
>BOOKS
Lots of german books exist and all relevant books from other countries are translated into german
>Movies
The german film industry is pretty big and produces tons of (mostly shitty) movies, many of them can be found in the ARD or ZDF mediathek for free. German audiences mostly watch dubbed foreign movies, so pretty much every single hollywood movie in existance has been dubbed professionally.

>>214737207
yeah i'm doing a witcher 3 walkthrough in german and it's surprisingly good

>>214735058 (OP)
Because Germany is irrelevant

>>214735058 (OP)
I learned Thai and Cambodian without much media just move there for a few years

>>214735288
No

>>214740152
Press x to doubt

>>214740152
Hey Toby

>>214735058 (OP)
boomers

>>214735058 (OP)
ACK

>>214735058 (OP)
Not my problem

>>214735058 (OP)
idk bro they got lots of shit

Watch generation war

>>214735058 (OP)
when I was a kid I would watch German TV channels because they had cool cartoons. I didn't understand shit and actually the harsh sound of German language kinda scared me but still I enjoyed just looking at the cartoon.

Thomas Mann
Kafka
Goethe
Those are the only German authors I've read in translation
I've thought about learning German before but it's hard to justify

Why would you care about German? They will all be speaking arabic in 10-20 years.

>>214735058 (OP)
you could look on anna's archive for books I'm sure you'll find something

>>214735058 (OP)
They don't do that in Germany

>>214735058 (OP)
>very rare to come across german speaker on internet.
we are everywhere
>finding proper TV/BOOKS/Movies is hard
gotta know where. that's hard if you don't know the language.
you can always get a VPN for a german IP address, then visit the state media. they have some entertaining low-propaganda tv shows/documentaries. these days, everything is subtitled.

>>214735058 (OP)
Just watch "Goodbye Lenin!" over and over again until you learn the language and develop a wish to see the wall reinstated

Isn't there something like SVT Play in Germany? Can watch a bunch of TV shows for free.

>>214735058 (OP)
Germans only need Bild and Spiegel

>>214735058 (OP)
This is the only German media I know that was popular enough to reach international audiences.

>>214735058 (OP)
We are very insular. It exists. You just have to be in the know. And it’s all parodying America btw.

>>214748308
Too young to have seen Der Untergang (Downfall)?

>>214735058 (OP)
Go watch Toni Erdmann. It's a German comedy filmed in Bucharest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym8ZpHhxcl8

>>214748345
Das Boot if you're an oldfag

>>214748345
that's more of a meme movie now than something people actually watched

>>214735711
>>214735711
>swedes cant understand danes
Swedes can easily read Danish texts in my experience, but they and even some Norwegians struggle with Danish pronunciation
I speak Danish to Swedes but I always make sure to speak slow and have clear articulation

It's easy to throw you guys off when we start high speed mumbling where words muddle together in one continuous flow

>>214748472
That's because you only know of the memes.

In Scandinavia Danish is quite the outlier, esp in Copenhagen people tend to speak fast
Jutland speaks slow but not any more articulate lel, some Jysk dialects are even more muddled than Rigsdansk
Except East Jutland with all the cities (Everything east Coast between Kolding-Aarhus-Aalborg), here people just speak Rigsdansk with a jysk accent and few select local words like træls, tovlig...

>>214735058 (OP)
all the good directos fuck off to america because its easier to get proper funding there

>>214735288
a little, very little
when i listen closely you can MAYBE understand a few simple words and understand the sentence from there. (sometimes when i read some "nordic" stuff i can understand it and see the similarity)

Swedish is grammatically more similar to English in some ways. The vocabulary just hides the similarity. German sentence structure is as unintuitive to us as it does to English speakers.

>>214735058 (OP)
>finding proper TV/BOOKS/Movies is hard

Every single US and British production is dubbed in German.
You have not even tried.

>>214748736
And Danish and Norwegian too, of course. Not that different.

>>214748755
There are even German films on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ug_MXToEE