They are declaring it B2 level and it does look, at first glance, like it’s more difficult than nachrichtenleicht.de which I used quite a bit in my late beginner and intermediate levels.
It looks like it touches on a few topics each day and there is a transcript that can be imported as well.
Thanks for sharing the link. Yes it is an upgrade in difficulty. However, there is no download button for audio I mean If I want to create my own course and want to add audio to my playlist for repetitive listening. Can I do it?
Nice catch JFC. I hadn’t noticed the audio links below and was just getting ready to figure out how to grab the audio (didn’t import audio when I tried to import one of the pages). Double kudos for pointing out original tempo as well.
BTW, there’s an Android app called ‘linguistica’ that offers weekly news in slow German, French, Italian and two varieties of Spanish. Audio and transcript.
I don’t want to sound negative, as it looks that many people find this interesting, but I just want to say, be careful with getting used to such slow audio. I listened to a few audios and the slow version sounds awfully artificial. I am a proponent of listening to comprehensible, so simplified content, but with real speech just from the beginning. So that you will not get surprised with your further encounters with native speakers
I agree, but thankfully they have the normal speed available as well as a link at the bottom of the day’s page. I personally liked that it touches on several news topics for the day in an abbreviated format, so I’m thinking one may get some new vocabulary fairly easily due to the different topics and having each tidbit be short doesn’t make it as tedious as a full length article may be.
I personally did find listening to slow spoken news helpful early on (from nachrichtenleicht.de). Particularly since for awhile the content was very difficult for me.
I probably still don’t see harm in doing slow spoken stuff up to a certain level, particularly if one is having difficulty hearing things. Or slowing down particular parts of the audio if they are able to, to pick out certain pronunciations of things. As long as one understands that they need to do full speed workouts most of the time and become used to that.
