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Day 12: Kommen, gehen, fahren — and nach for countries

January 1, 2026 · 5 min

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…
Day 11: Sagen and your first German comparison

January 1, 2026 · 6 min

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…
Day 10: Football German — spielen, das Tor, gewinnen

January 1, 2026 · 5 min

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…
Day 9: Money in German — and the unbending Euro

January 1, 2026 · 5 min

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…
Day 8: Welded words — Flughafen, Hauptbahnhof

January 1, 2026 · 5 min

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…

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Day 7: Es gibt — how German says "there is"

January 1, 2026 · 5 min

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…
Day 6: Election German — die Wahl, wählen, der Wähler

January 1, 2026 · 5 min

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…
Day 5: German plurals and the umlaut

January 1, 2026 · 6 min

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…
Day 4: Big German numbers are Lego

January 1, 2026 · 6 min

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…
Day 3: Der, die, das — never learn a naked noun

January 1, 2026 · 6 min

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…
Day 2: The verb haben — and why nouns wear capitals

January 1, 2026 · 7 min

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…
Day 1: The verb sein and the German number trick

January 1, 2026 · 8 min

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…

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About the show

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.