One of my favorite ways of learning German, is by watching youtube videos. There are two different ways I go about youtube with learning German. The first way is watching videos that are meant for German learners. The second way is watching videos in German that are not meant for German learners and are rather made for entertainment.
Which method is better? They are both essential. I find them both with the same amount of importance. However, I tend to sometimes get bored with the German learning videos on youtube. I simply just turn to the entertainment videos. There are videos that are in German that have nothing to do with German learning at all. It is important that you find a channel that has a substantial amount of content that you enjoy.
Since I enjoy learning about animals and wildlife. I can search up stuff about wildlife in the search bar of youtube (in German of course). Then, I can watch them.
You don’t need to understand every word or even single sentence that the video is saying. As long as you are listening and giving the effort of understanding. If you look up every word you don’t understand, you are going to frustrate yourself. It destroys the purpose of watching for entertainment.
However, I do recommend looking up the words that were frequent in the video that you didn’t understand. That way, you can learn words that are important, when you need to talk about a certain topic that you’re interested in. After looking up the most frequent words, then watch the video again. You will notice that you can understand the video a lot more than the first time around. Repetition would also help maintain the new words in your memory. Above all, you will then have the ability to have conversations that you are interested in.
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