Today Sarah is taking a look at German music. The most popular German bands abroad are Rammstein and Tokio Hotel. Is it just a coincidence that these bands are nothing like ‘normal’ Germans? Or this all part of a sinister plot?
Be that as it may, this audio blog is a great place to get Sarah’s personal recommendations of German music. All GermanPod101 advanced audio blogs in season 3 feature authentic, natural German language and rich cultural information dressed in authentic stories taken from a typical German life. They are the ideal podcasts for advanced students who want to improve their grasp of the German language while learning about Germany.
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We’ve listened to you! Here finally we are presenting a Rammstein song: Sonne. The German words are quite easy and the song is very repetitive in a way, but it’s still open to a lot of interpretations and speculations. Grammar-wise we will look at some intermediate usages of numbers, and the culture section is dedicated to German school grades.
Listen to today’s song on Youtube. This is a song that should not be missing in any Rammstein fan’s collection, so if you like it, buy it from Amazon.com. International visitors will have to go to 7digital instead.
Here’s an oldie but a goodie, a German song that you may actually know, because it was immensely popular. “99 Luftballons” by Nena is a classic anti-war song. Nena sang it in English, too, but the original German version is a lot more expressive.
This lesson features a lot of useful German vocabulary, some of it colloquial, and it introduces the German Präteritum (preterite past tense).
If you don’t know today’s song, or you want a recording to sing along to, listen to it at Amazon.com. Americans can also buy a legal mp3 of the full song right there; international visitors will have to go to 7digital instead.
When you’re feeling depressed, take this advice from the German band Silbermond and waste some time, enjoy your time. Their song “Verschwende deine Zeit” is the topic of the second German music lesson targeting intermediate learners of German. You can listen to a sample of the song at 7digital (just search for the song title) and there you can also acquire a legal CD-quality download of this song.
Take the time and enjoy some German music with us!
Learning German has just become more enjoyable! The topic of this new intermediate series is “Learn German through songs”. In each of these lessons we will present a German song to you and then learn some useful intermediate-level vocabulary and grammar from it. Today we’ll start with the song “Männer” by famous German singer Herbert Grönemeyer. The song is an oldie but a goodie. As the series progresses, we will present all kinds of German music to you, from old to new and from rock to hiphop, so stay tuned!
If you don’t yet have today’s song, you can hear an excerpt of it at Amazon.com. Americans can also buy a legal mp3 of the full song right there; international visitors will have to go to 7digital instead.











