Hello lemmites! I decided that a great way to get some use out of this community while it gathers steam is to have a mega thread where people can simply come and practice their German with people on similar skill levels. If you're a more fluent speaker, and see any mistakes in someone else's sentences, feel free to correct them and possibly explain why.

I'm thinking how it'll go is I'll have a prompt for the week that you can answer and I'll try to reply to you, or you can totally ask your own question, or just comment about whatever is going on in your life, or going through your head.

I'll get the ball rolling: Was ist deine Lieblingsstadt in Deutschland? Warum?

Meine Lieblingsstadt in Deutschland ist Düsseldorf, weil meine Familie von dort stammt.

Traum

Zwei Latten im Zaun,
zwei Wurzeln im Wald,
zwei Bâume verneigen sich
vor der Gestalt.

Im Rücken der Graben
und rechts das Gehege.
Die Lichtung entsteigt
dere Biegung am Wege.

Vor mir die Wiese,
vor mir die Helle.
Woher kommt nur diese
vertrauteste Stelle ?

Zwei Latten im Zaun,
zwei Wurzeln im Wald,
zwei Bâume bezeugen
des Traumes Gewwalt.

They even made a widely-accepted short form "Wr." because 6 characters is too many. Especially common in Austria, anyone know why? /s

Do whatever you wish with this information...

I tend to do decently with digital learning, but of course stuff like duolingo sucks for number of reasons. Any good free (preferably open source) apps or websites, or any good resources? I'm also planning to look at my local library, they do have the Paul Noble audiobook. So far I've found this: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German

Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance :)

Eggcorns (Wikipedia / YouTube video by RobWords) are language mistakes that sometimes take over and change the spelling and perhaps even the meaning of a word. This is rare in German because there's fewer homophones but in this episode of Wort der Woche, DW explains how "munttot" became "mundtot". Available as audio or transcript.

Moin, ich hab diese Gemeinschaft gefunden. Ursprünglich habe ich eine gemacht aber ich habe diese gefunden :)

Ich heiße Frankie, und ihr? Alles klar?

Why use "ist" in one but not the other?

TL;DR: I built a web app called LangGlitch that aggregates comprehensible‑input videos (and soon podcasts/graded readers) for multiple languages, starting with German, Vietnamese, and English. I want it to become a one‑stop place for comprehensible input for every language, including small/obscure ones, and would love your feedback and language requests.

Hey folks, I’m Stefan, a guy from Germany who loves travelling and getting lost in new cultures and languages. In school I was terrible at languages and grammar never really made sense to me, but at some point I realised I had somehow become fluent in English just by playing games and watching YouTube in English.

Looking back, what worked for me was basically “comprehensible input”: content that I mostly understood and actually cared about, consumed for fun rather than as “study”. These days I always try to learn new languages that way, but I kept running into the same problem: unless you’re learning something huge like Spanish or Japanese, good comprehensible‑input content is scattered and hard to find.

So I decided to build something for myself and ended up turning it into a proper project: LangGlitch – a little web app that aggregates comprehensible‑input videos for language learners. Right now it supports German, Vietnamese, and English, with playlists grouped by difficulty, tags, and creators. You can sort for “easiest”, filter for topics you like, and then just watch your way through material instead of hunting for the next decent video.

I’d love for LangGlitch to eventually cover every language out there, including the really small and “obscure” ones, so it can be a genuine one‑stop place for comprehensible input. If there’s a language you’re passionate about and want to see added sooner rather than later, tell me in the comments or message me and I’ll do my best to prioritise it.

I’ve just put it into free open beta, so anyone can sign up and play around with it. I’m planning to add more languages over time, plus podcasts and graded readers, and if it ever makes enough money to pay its own bills I’d love to commission new comprehensible‑input content for underrepresented languages as well.

If you try it, I’d really appreciate honest feedback: confusing UI, missing features, annoying bugs, anything. You can leave comments here, DM me, or join the Discord (linked on the site) and yell at me there. Screenshots in the comments so you can get a feel for how it looks.

Hallo zusammen, haben wir villeicht eine Gruppe auf Matrix, damit wir unser Deutsch üben können? Es wurde auch hilfreich, wenn wir reden können. LG

Just seen somewhere else and thought, it might fit here as well.

Hi everyone, I am looking to improve my German. I understand quite a bit by now but my spoken language is still child-like (I am somewhere B1+). Reading has always been something I enjoy. That being said: any (good) books you could recommend that are written by German-speaking writers and are "easy" to read? Just to say, I am not looking for children books - I need to be engaged with the story to read it. Thanks!

Ich habe mich heute auf Lemmy angemeldet. Gibt es ein App für Lemmy?

The SayHi translation app (from Amazon) has been discontinued as of 8/5/24. My existing install no longer works, and the app is not available on the stores. The app main page just has the discontinuation notice, but no explanation.

I still have DeepL to fall back on, but had found SayHi to be a good alternative. I miss it.

Does anyone know why this was discontinued? Any idea if Amazon is expected to release a replacement?

Any suggestions for a replacement? What has worked for you?

When I was learning English, listening to music (mostly rap) helped me A LOT. Now that I'm learning Deutsch, I thought I would do the same. I really like the song "Hurra die Welt geht unter" by K.I.Z. but not so much their other songs. I was able to find "die fantastische vier", but it was very old school. I would appreciate it if you could recommend something to me. And of course I listen to Rammstein. So it shouldn't only be rap. Thanks a lot in advance.

Google image translate was able to get me as far as "For our..." and "on behalf of", but that's it.

It's a 1924 edition of Hegel's Lectures on Philosophy of History, in German, published by Philipp Reclam Jun. of Leipzig as part of the Reclam Universal Library. I picked it up years ago at a second hand book sale along with a ton of other books, just got around to noticing the stamp and inscription. As far as I can tell from a bit of googling, the stamp indicates this book was sent or received by a German prisoner of war in a British labour camp in Egypt, probably the suez canal zone. I couldn't find an exact location for German Independent Working Company 2719.

Anyway, would love a translation of the handwriting if anyone can figure it out. The combination of messy writing, possibly abbreviations, and a language I don't speak has stumped me.

Ich habe beide gesehen in die selbe Context.
Was ist die Unterschied zwischen "ich habe dich liebe" und "ich liebe dich" ?

I have noticed this quite often

I'm a total beginner. Studied German for a bit in High School but never really got into it. Been thinking about actually learning it, at least to be able to understand some basic stuff.

So does anyone have any recommendations that could be useful/ have been helpful for you?

Es geht mir gut aber ich habe viel Arbeit und ich möchte mehr Zeit bei Deutsch lernen verbringen.

Und du ?