German audio magazine for intermediate and advanced students

Schau ins Land is a great German audio magazine for intermediate and advanced students wanting to increase their vocabulary fast, and improve their comprehension skills efficiently.

It’s a bimonthly publication on a 1-hour cd plus booklet. The cd contains interviews with famous German speakers from all walks of life, plus articles on food, travel, current affairs, cinema, music, wine, the arts, sports, etc.

The booklet that accompanies the audio cd contains the full transcript of the cd and a 500+ word German – English glossary. This allows you to concentrate on listening and learning without having to waste time using a dictionary or making lists of words.

To practise many of the new words and expressions that come up in each issue, there’s also an additional cd with German audio flashcards.

A 1-year subscription costs $129. If you want to see and hear Schau ins Land, here is a free sample.

Posted with permission from Champs Elysées Inc.

 

3 surefire ways to give up learning German

Keeping up your motivation, self-discipline and spirits when it comes to learning German isn’t easy. In fact, there are some ways of guaranteeing failure in record time. Whether your aim is to achieve a certain level of competence or to learn the language well, avoiding those tactics is essential.

I have studied and taught foreign languages for a long time, and in my experience these are three of the most important things you should never do when learning German.

Using a language course you don’t like, no matter how much someone else has recommended it to you and how good it’s supposed to be. If YOU don’t like it, it won’t work. The good news is that nowadays it’s easy to find out a lot of information about language courses before you buy them, and the best ones give you a money-back guarantee.

Boring yourself to death with printed dictionaries. Dictionaries on paper aren’t always easy to use, and all too often what you’re looking for either isn’t in or it’s buried among hundreds of words and impossible to find. The fastest, easiest and most accurate way of finding the words and phrases you’re looking for is with electronic dictionaries.

Always having to figure out what to do next. No matter how much motivation and self-discipline you’ve got, if every time you sit down to learn some German you have to work out your own lessons, you’ll be wasting precious time and energy, and eventually you’ll give up. That’s why it’s so important to follow a good language course that suits you, and preferably from cover to cover without skipping lessons to avoid knowledge gaps.

If you’re looking for German language courses in book format, cd, cdrom, mp3, dvd, etc., you’ll find the widest range, at great prices, at German Bookworld.