Day One German | Beginner News-Focused German Course

Day 20: Graduation: your first German news bulletin

The Day One German finale, with Felix and Leonie. Graduation day: a full German news bulletin, election, heatwave, strike, sport, built entirely from the last twenty days

Day 19: How to read German headlines

Episode nineteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, the penultimate episode. Headlines don't speak full German; they speak telegram: no articles, often no verb. To

Day 18: The German future with wird — and the will trap

Episode eighteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Yesterday the past, today the future: werden plus a verb at the end, the bracket again. Plus the business kit (

Day 17: The sentence bracket: past tense, part two

Episode seventeen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. A milestone: your first full two-sentence news story, exactly as breaking news is written. Today: the earthqua

Day 16: The German past tense: the ge- hug

Episode sixteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Final week. News is mostly about things that already happened, so today you learn to RECOGNISE the German past:

Day 15: German question words — wer, was, wo, wann, warum

Episode fifteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, the week-three finale. News exists to answer questions, so today you get the question kit: wer, was, wo, wann, w

Day 14: Kein vs nicht — the two German no's

Episode fourteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Bad news is news, and bad news is full of negatives. Today's quirk is genuinely useful grammar in disguise: Ger

Day 13: Days, months and seasons in German

Episode thirteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Every news story is pinned to a date. Today: the seven days (six of which end in -tag, and then there's Wednesd

Day 12: Kommen, gehen, fahren — and nach for countries

Episode twelve of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. People moving, to festivals, to borders, to safety, is half the news. Today: kommen, gehen, fahren, twenty-five c

Day 11: Sagen and your first German comparison

Episode eleven of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Week three is the verb week, and it opens with the single most-used verb in German news: sagen, to say. Plus the

Day 10: Football German — spielen, das Tor, gewinnen

Episode ten of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, you're halfway! Sport closes every bulletin: today you learn the team, the match, to play, to win, to lose, and the

Day 9: Money in German — and the unbending Euro

Episode nine of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. The story that never leaves the front page: the cost of living. Today: prices, money, more and less, expensive and

Day 8: Welded words — Flughafen, Hauptbahnhof

Episode eight of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Transport chaos is a news perennial, today you learn the trains, the airport, open and closed, and the most famous

Day 7: Es gibt — how German says "there is"

Episode seven of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Every news broadcast on earth ends the same way, the weather. Today: it is forty degrees, hot and cold, the four c

Day 6: Election German — die Wahl, wählen, der Wähler

Episode six of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Week two begins: one news domain a day, starting with the biggest, politics. Today: the election, the word-family tr

Day 5: German plurals and the umlaut

Episode five of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, the week-one finale. Today: fifteen professions, the half-dozen ways German makes a plural (and the one island of c

Day 4: Big German numbers are Lego

Episode four of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. News is obsessed with counting, today you unlock the big numbers: hundert, tausend, and the famous German habit of

Day 3: Der, die, das — never learn a naked noun

Episode three of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. The day every German learner remembers: the three words for 'the'. You'll meet der, die and das, complete the verb

Day 2: The verb haben — and why nouns wear capitals

Episode two of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Today you learn the verb haben (to have), and with it, the ending pattern that runs nearly every German verb, plus t

Day 1: The verb sein and the German number trick

Day One German takes you from absolute zero to being ready for our daily news podcast, LinguaWire A1 Daily German News, in four weeks. Twenty episodes, five minutes a day