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I think the courses offered by "Deutsche Welle" are what you are looking for.
For example this course is quite interesting.
All possibilities are listed here below the course finder.
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Unfortunately I can't really recommend any German tv shows, as I am not satisfied with the program on German tv. But I could point you to Deutschlandfunk, which has transcripts for some shows (see this answer).
On the other hand I don't believe in the need for a text to read along if you have already some knowledge of a language. I don't really have any ...
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The two verbs
ansehen
and
anschauen
are near-identical synonyms. They are, in fact, identical as to their denotations. People may disagree, however, as to the equivalence of their connotations. For example, when we hear or read anschauen we simultaneously hear or read a faint echo of the noun Anschauung in the back of our mind. There is ...
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Yes the two verbs are synonyms which mean exactly the same. I can't think of an example in which one of the verbs would mean different things.
Perhaps the activity of watching a movie can be expressed better with anschauen instead of ansehen, but it's not a mistake to use ansehen either.
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I had language partner in France (the program was called Tandem there) and I feel the whole purpose of such a program is speaking the foreign language. It's especially well-suited for learning daily life phrases and expressions that you don't find in books or films (I think even movies have their "own" language). That's why we often talked about customs of ...
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Anschauen and Ansehen have an identical meaning. If you use anschauen or ansehen is mostly dependent on the region where you are.
For me anschauen is more directed to the object while ansehen is a bit more general.
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You are a really tough guy - German is hard enough but to start with Freud. Respect :-)
Why not to search in Gutenberg Project? Just for starter:
Das Unheimliche by Sigmund Freud - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34222
pozdrowionka
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There are a lot of TV shows in the ARD that are broadcasted with German subtitles. They use Videotext-Untertitel on text page 150.
Have a look at WDR Zusatzdienste, Untertitel or tv butler overview. Also 3sat provides some shows.
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I did some research online and found no English subtitles für German TV programs. There seems to be no market for it. There are German subtitles for most programs.
You will find a couple of good movies with English subtitles.
I have to agree with 0x6d64: The quality of German television is quite low. As regards an intellectual tv show: Check out Alpha ...
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It depends on how quick (okay, you said it already: quick) and how good you want to learn. Not to forget how you want to learn in general.
I've heard that Livemocha and Babbel are very good for learning online. However, if you have the time and the possibility, just grab someone who can talk German and just talk with him. Also watch German movies/listen to ...
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I'm not related to Yabla.
But I have appreciated their video demos very much. There are subtitles, both german and english that you can switch on and off. The speed of the video can be slowered. And all videos are done by genuine german people, and often real video content. I think something like 300 or more videos, i don't remember. You should at least ...
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Wir haben hier schon so etwas, nämlich unseren:
German Language and Usage Chat
Dort kann jeder, der die Mindestreputation von 20 Punkten erreicht hat, nach Lust und Laune auf Deutsch oder auf Englisch debattieren und diskutieren. Man muss sich nur treffen. Es gibt kein festes Thema und keine "off topic" Diskussionen, außer, dass es im weitesten Sinne um ...
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Im Web entstanden, und für's Web entstanden:
Kurz & graphisch: ahoi polloi. Weniger als 1 Witz pro Tag, vielleicht 3 oder 5 pro Woche.
Ebenfalls graphisch: Nicht lustig. Keine Ahnung über die Witzfrequenz.
Auf Hinweis @loopers: Der Postillion mit Klamauk und vielen Kalauern.
Älter als das Web
ist die Titanic, ein Satiremagazin. Einige Inhalte ...
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I have problems to define German humour?
Is there a specific German humour?
It is easier to give some hints to jokes and humour websites in German.
A starting point may be DMOZ World:Deutsch:Freizeit:Humor. Jokes are Witze
On Youtube you can find also many German speaking comedians/joke maker...
I would recommand Loriot.
Karl Valentin was also a very ...
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How about chatting about the stuff that's currently interesting in your lives? That might be something personal, some sports event, a newspaper article or anything else. If you're looking for a newspaper, try bild.de. It's as bad as German journalism gets, but it's also as basic (or rather primitive) as German language gets.
This kind of conversation is ...
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You might want to have a look at school books. At some points, they might be too easy but overall you should be fine. Also, watching films in German can be of much help, especially with movies you already know in English – you should try not to die right away, though, because of the synchronisation. Watching them with German subtitles could also improve your ...
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You are right, the dominant type of material out there on the web is beginner and/or very poor quality. I have used GermanPod101 extensively.They have lots of intermediate material and some advanced dialogues. You can also use SlowGerman.com podcasts for listening comprehension practice. I've used Yabla.com at times and, of course, free language exchange via ...
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I've recently tried Duolingo. I'm an intermediate German learner, but I started at the beginning of their process, just to follow it through and see what it would be like. While very basic at present, I find it a very enjoyable alternative and reinforcement tool. When I posted some German at the end of one of the sessions, I amazingly got 8 or 9 people ...
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Deutsche Welle has a variety of Radio and streaming TV shows which are either subtitled or have downloadable transcripts and/or exercises. There's something for almost every learner there, I've found it very useful but not quite capable of standing on its own.
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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&closed_captions=1&uni=3&search_duration=long&search_query=german+english+subtitles
Above link shows you youtube vids, longer than 20 min and with captions/subtitles, use the filter options.
Recommendations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GopVzyWa7mo&cc=1
...
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Euronews in German provides videos and word-by-word transcripts of daily news.
The transcripts may not correspond 100% to the audio in the video (few words are changed by the speaker or the sentence order is changed) but they are very useful.
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I'm not related to Yabla.
But I have appreciated their video demos very much. There are subtitles, both german and english that you can switch on and off. The speed of the video can be slowered. And all videos are done by genuine german people, and often real video content. I think something like 300 or more videos, ...
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