>>2208054Long text anon here. Hey, danke! I'll definitely check out the zookeepers. I have been complimented on my Tiervokabular in the past, mostly because I loved how many different words there are for pigs and boars in German.
A couple more things for "learning German" anon:
- Youtube series "Easy German" is decent. There are subtitles, but you get to hear real people answering questions in conversational German. They also go to various cities, so you can hear different kinds of accents and a little dialect. Just look through their videos for questions that interest you.
- During my time abroad, I have taken a couple jobs in other countries. I found a German-speaking group in each country so that I could still speak often with other people. But tbh you can also do this online, either via free language exchange or paid tutoring.
- If you have the opportunity to go abroad, I recommend volunteering as a way to get additional free practice. I volunteered at an animal shelter on the weekends and in the summers. This experience was great because I could learn different styles and a bit of dialect without the stress of doing it at my main workplace or at the uni.
- I can still write better than I speak, because I text and play games with some German-speakers. I can recommend always trying to produce your own sentences and not relying on automatic translators. They often still get things wrong, and there's no short-cut to the process of learning a language. But if you persevere, you'll start figuring out your own "style" in German.
- dict.cc is the best German/English dictionary and the app is extremely useful.
-vidrel (with subtitles), the first clip is the best
Ich möchte gerne wissen, woher der erste Clip kommt