[tirutiru]

Hey I am trying to get back into German. What are some of the good channels that you've found? I remember Fokus Deutsch.

Spent 4 years in Germany but never took a course out of sheer laziness. I can read children's books but every native speaker sounds like they are zipping along at 2x speed.

[ben_w]

On YouTube, by far the best is Easy German. Their playlists also divide the content by levels from A1 to C2, as well as by theme: https://www.youtube.com/@EasyGerman/playlists

They also have podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/easy-german-learn-germ...

More generally, there's also good podcast content from:

• DW news: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-na...

• Coffee Break German: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/coffee-break-german/id...

> I can read children's books but every native speaker sounds like they are zipping along at 2x speed.

I generally play most of the podcasts at double-speed precisely because of this. Real speakers are much faster than the careful slow pace of most internet content, and double-speed playback forces me to develop gist-comprehension even if I miss the odd word here or there.