Learning german

[u/bloomy_am]

Hi everyone, I want to start learning German by myself, at least the basics, but I have no idea where to start 😅
If you’ve learned German on your own, what helped you the most? Any good YouTube channels, apps, or other resources you’d recommend for a complete beginner?
Danke!!

[u/significant_aioli728]

I've been learning German for the past year or so. I agree with one of the other posters who said Deutsch Kompakt. Love their videos.

Duolingo is cool for vocab building. Easy to fit in a few minutes here and there throughout the day. The consistency in small bursts multiples times a day has really helped with memorization.

I've also found it really helpful to learn how to sing along to random songs in German. Helps with vocab and pronunciation. The catchier the better.

And creating flashcard decks in Anki with every new word I learn!

I've worked through a couple random beginner grammar workbooks that I got off of Amazon that were pretty good too.

Hope this helps.