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20 episodes
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Date created
2026/06/11
Latest episode
2026/01/01
Average duration
6 min.
Release period
1 days
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German Day One is a 20-episode beginner German podcast for absolute beginners who want to understand slow German news. No prior German is needed. Visit https://linguawire.com/dayone/german for all learning materials and homework to test your knowledge. In five minutes a day, learn the essential German words, verbs, phrases, grammar patterns, and listening skills you need to start listening to our main podcast - LinguaWire A1 German news. In that feed, we post a new episode every day discussing the latest real news stories, in simple A1 German. This podcast is perfect for learners who are just beginning German, learning German for the first time, starting German A1, and looking for slow, basic German education. LinguaWire podcasts use AI support, including translations and multi-language recording, under native speaker scripting and supervision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Day 15: German question words — wer, was, wo, wann, warum
2026/01/01
Episode fifteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, the week-three finale. News exists to answer questions, so today you get the question kit: wer, was, wo, wann, warum, wie, including the famous trap where 'wer' means who and 'wo' means where. Plus the verb wollen, to want: the engine of every political story. Today's sentence: Wer ist die neue Ministerin, und was will sie?
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Day 14: Kein vs nicht — the two German no's
2026/01/01
Episode fourteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Bad news is news, and bad news is full of negatives. Today's quirk is genuinely useful grammar in disguise: German has two words for 'not', kein for things, nicht for everything else, and one simple rule of thumb to choose between them. Today's sentence: Im Norden gibt es keinen Strom, und die Schulen sind nicht geöffnet.
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Day 13: Days, months and seasons in German
2026/01/01
Episode thirteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Every news story is pinned to a date. Today: the seven days (six of which end in -tag, and then there's Wednesday), the verbs to begin and to end, and the four diary phrases that place any story in time. Today's sentence: Der Gipfel beginnt am Montag und endet am Freitag.
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Day 12: Kommen, gehen, fahren — and nach for countries
2026/01/01
Episode twelve of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. People moving, to festivals, to borders, to safety, is half the news. Today: kommen, gehen, fahren, twenty-five countries and nationalities, and the quirk that nach can mean after, but with countries and cities it often means to. Today's sentence: Tausende Menschen kommen für das Festival nach Deutschland.
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Day 11: Sagen and your first German comparison
2026/01/01
Episode eleven of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Week three is the verb week, and it opens with the single most-used verb in German news: sagen, to say. Plus the news colon, food basics (bread, milk, water, coffee, eating and drinking), and your first comparison. Today's sentence: Der Minister sagt: Brot und Milch sind dieses Jahr teurer.
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Day 10: Football German — spielen, das Tor, gewinnen
2026/01/01
Episode ten of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, you're halfway! Sport closes every bulletin: today you learn the team, the match, to play, to win, to lose, and the quirk that German sport is full of borrowed English, Fans, Team, Trainer. Today's sentence: Die Nationalmannschaft spielt heute Abend vor achtzigtausend Fans.
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Day 9: Money in German — and the unbending Euro
2026/01/01
Episode nine of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. The story that never leaves the front page: the cost of living. Today: prices, money, more and less, expensive and cheap, the verb kosten, and the small, useful quirk that after numbers German normally keeps Euro unchanged. Today's sentence: Die Preise sind hoch, und die Menschen haben weniger Geld.
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Day 8: Welded words — Flughafen, Hauptbahnhof
2026/01/01
Episode eight of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Transport chaos is a news perennial, today you learn the trains, the airport, open and closed, and the most famous thing about German: compound words. Long German words aren't new words; they're old words holding hands. Today's sentence: Die Züge sind voll, und der Flughafen ist geschlossen.
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Day 7: Es gibt — how German says "there is"
2026/01/01
Episode seven of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Every news broadcast on earth ends the same way, the weather. Today: it is forty degrees, hot and cold, the four compass directions, and the loveliest oddity in German: es gibt, 'there is', which literally means 'it gives'. Today's sentence: Es ist vierzig Grad im Süden, und es gibt keinen Regen.
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Day 6: Election German — die Wahl, wählen, der Wähler
2026/01/01
Episode six of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Week two begins: one news domain a day, starting with the biggest, politics. Today: the election, the word-family trick (learn one root, get the relatives free), am Sonntag, and the polls. Today's sentence: Die Wahl ist am Sonntag, und die Umfragen sind sehr knapp.
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Day 5: German plurals and the umlaut
2026/01/01
Episode five of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie, the week-one finale. Today: fifteen professions, the half-dozen ways German makes a plural (and the one island of calm), and your first full regular verb: streiken. Today's sentence: Die Ärzte und die Lehrer streiken heute.
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Day 4: Big German numbers are Lego
2026/01/01
Episode four of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. News is obsessed with counting, today you unlock the big numbers: hundert, tausend, and the famous German habit of gluing whole numbers into single mega-words. Plus the two words for people and the crowd vocabulary of every protest story. Today's sentence: Mehr als zehntausend Menschen sind bei der Demonstration in der Hauptstadt.
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Day 3: Der, die, das — never learn a naked noun
2026/01/01
Episode three of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. The day every German learner remembers: the three words for 'the'. You'll meet der, die and das, complete the verb sein, learn the word heute, and discover why the girl is neuter. Today's sentence: Die Regierung, die Polizei und die Armee sind heute auf den Straßen.
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Day 2: The verb haben — and why nouns wear capitals
2026/01/01
Episode two of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Today you learn the verb haben (to have), and with it, the ending pattern that runs nearly every German verb, plus the chancellor, the family, and the quirk you can see: every German noun wears a capital letter. Today's real news sentence: Die Kanzlerin hat zwei Kinder und wohnt in der Hauptstadt.
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Day 1: The verb sein and the German number trick
2026/01/01
Day One German takes you from absolute zero to being ready for our daily news podcast, LinguaWire A1 Daily German News, in four weeks. Twenty episodes, five minutes a day, with Felix and Leonie. In episode one you learn the verb sein (I am, he is, she is), the word der Präsident, and the wonderful, slightly mad way German builds its numbers. By the end you'll understand and say a real German news sentence: Der neue Präsident ist 62 Jahre alt.
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