Film or TV show recommendations for beginners

I recommend watching TV and films you already know but dubbed German with GERMAN subtitles! It’s amazing for building vocabulary and getting a feel for “real” German.

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I’m currently watching Tatort and Charité on ARD. I also watched 4 Blocks on Amazon Prime and Der Tatortreiniger. I enjoyed all of these despite not understanding everything that was being said (far from it!) but at no point did it feel like homework!

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The ARD and ZDF Mediathek is also available for persons living outside of Germany. I am here in Argentina and I watch a lot of German series and films by mediathek.

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Hola Brigitte
So do we in Chile! :blush:
My kids used to watch “Die Sendung mit der Maus” und “Wissen macht Ahh!”. They learned a lot about simple daily things!

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Hi there,
another suggestion - at least for younger learners - could te “Tschick”. A quite funny road movie about friendship.
When we moved to Mexico my children picked up a lot of Spanish by watching the same movies again and again. That might not work for adults though …

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Hi @Rliyo

here is the link I was talking about in our Live Lesson today about German movies :movie_camera:

Best,
Melanie

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Janina already mentioned it, but I would like emphasize on the movie „Good Bye Lenin!“. There sure will be some sentences that cannot be understood completely by a beginner, but the strong images of the movie speak for themselves most of the time. :fireworks:

And it is such a nice movie about a historical event that still affects the German society nowadays! They create super interesting scenes of Berlin in the late 80s. It is a good movie for persons who want to get to know the German culture and society on a deeper level. :relaxed:

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