Hello and welcome to German-Podcast.de, dem Podcast zum
Deutsch lernen.
I am
currently doing a complete overhaul of the podcast. The podcast started about 4
years ago and has been going in a . . . lets say unsystematic way. Time for a
rework over the Christmas holidays. Here are three reasons why I decided to do
the restart:
Most importantly:
The podcast never followed a systematic
way of building your knowledge. It was a mixture of basic and advanced lessons
that did not build upon each others. That’s fine if you are already an advanced
student, but can be frustrating if you are a beginner. Therefore I will
continue to mix in advanced lessons, but the main focus is to build a
systematic set of vocabulary.
Furthermore
there are old audio lessons and/or PDF files missing because the servers I
hostet them on don’t exist anymore. Some I still have on a backup in my
basement, some are completely gone. I keep getting mails, asking me to send
somebody those files. I will try to use more reliable sources in the future,
but you know that hosting a large number of big files can become expensive.
There are currently over 10000 people downloading those files and I am only
willing to pay so much, so please donate a few dollars if you find that the
podcast helps you…
Finally the
combination of an audio file and a vocabulary trainer is in my personal point
of view the true road to success. You really need to learn those basic words –
and repeat them over and over again. There are a number of good training
programs for all platforms out there. Personally I find that my smartphone is
the best platform, as it allows me to learn my vocis while I wait for a train, take
a walk, during my lunch break or whenever I want. That’s the way I learn my
French and Spanish vocabulary.
So, that’s why
I decided to do a complete rework of the lessons. For those of you who don’t
own an Android phone: I will still post the audio files and the vocabulary to
this podcast. Its just that you are on your own about how to handle your flash
cards…
Lucerne,
09.12.2011
Stephan
Wiesner
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