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German A-Level

Hey guys,
Does anyone have any good german A-level resources for AQA? My film is "das leben der anderen" and "der vorleser" (we haven't looked at them yet). I'm not the best at speaking, but I'm good at reading and vocab.

Reply 1

If you want to watch the film ahead of your class, you can find it on YouTube. There's also a free pdf available online for 'Der Vorleser'. As someone who's currently self teaching themself the A Level I've found the AQA Textbook quite helpful for doing exercises (esp vocab) as well as some facts I'd need in the exam. A website that also really helped me when I started was Study Mind as they had the key topics summarised into more identifiable chucks than the textbook.
Quick question tho, are you looking to improve your speaking or?

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by AyomiC
If you want to watch the film ahead of your class, you can find it on YouTube. There's also a free pdf available online for 'Der Vorleser'. As someone who's currently self teaching themself the A Level I've found the AQA Textbook quite helpful for doing exercises (esp vocab) as well as some facts I'd need in the exam. A website that also really helped me when I started was Study Mind as they had the key topics summarised into more identifiable chucks than the textbook.
Quick question tho, are you looking to improve your speaking or?


yea i def need to get better at speaking. i did so bad in my gcses got like 5 in speaking and a 9 in everything else 😭
thanks for the info tho xx

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by Anisa_M27
yea i def need to get better at speaking. i did so bad in my gcses got like 5 in speaking and a 9 in everything else 😭
thanks for the info tho xx

Do you know anyone who speaks German? If not, try as much as possible to speak with your teacher(s)
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by AyomiC
Do you know anyone who speaks German? If not, try as much as possible to speak with your teacher(s)?


our teacher is german so i try talking with her. and we have two germans in our class but i get too shy to talk to them

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by Anisa_M27
our teacher is german so i try talking with her. and we have two germans in our class but i get too shy to talk to them

Omds, please don't get shy, most of the time they would probably enjoy it (speaking as a German myself)

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by AyomiC
Omds, please don't get shy, most of the time they would probably enjoy it (speaking as a German myself)


nah 😭 they just laugh when i speak. plus they’re guys, i get nervous around them. i’ll stick to the teacher for now

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by Anisa_M27
nah 😭 they just laugh when i speak. plus they’re guys, i get nervous around them. i’ll stick to the teacher for now

Oh man 😭 well wish you all the best on your speaking journey, I would help you with speaking but that's clearly not possible 🥲

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by AyomiC
Oh man 😭 well wish you all the best on your speaking journey, I would help you with speaking but that's clearly not possible 🥲

thx xx i’ve started using hellotalk to find locals but they just speak in english 😭

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by Anisa_M27
thx xx i’ve started using hellotalk to find locals but they just speak in english 😭

Oh no 😭

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