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Mission Berlin Review - Deutsche Welle - Free Resource

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Guten Tag!  Today’s free resource is courtesy of the Deutsche Welle website. I’ll add a link to it at the end. It’s called Mission Berlin, but there are also two other versions called Mission Paris (to learn French) and Mission Kraków (to learn Polish).  First off, let’s talk about Deutsche Welle. They have a ton of free resources, and are essentially helping and encouraging people to learn German for free. They’ve got an app: DWLearnGerman which is full of content from A1 through to C1.  The app is loaded with content but the website also includes additional sources. I recommend checking out both.  Back to Mission Berlin. This follows the story of a young woman (Anna) who is on a mission to save Berlin. It’s a completely audio course; spanning 26 podcast episodes of approximately 5 minutes each. The audio sets the scene like it’s a game ‘You have 120 minutes and 3 lives remaining.’  It’s 100% A1 content. Anna is in Berlin without any real German knowledge. Some of the content involves

Another language learner

Hi all!  I’ll do the obligatory introductory post. My name is Kate. I’ve done the odd dabble in German at school but never actually studied it… until now. I’m starting with A1.1. Bit of background, I started learning German at the beginning of the year. I’m still on the A1.1.  This will be my journey through learning German. I’ll go through the resources as I encounter them, and the various apps I use.  And who knows, if all goes well, it may well be the first language I learn.  Tschüss!