There are many ways to learn a language, but few are as entertaining as binge-watching TV shows in the language you want to learn.
TV shows offer an entertaining and immersive way to immerse yourself in a new language. The best part is that they’re not just for kids and can be enjoyed by adults of all ages. As long as you have an internet connection, you can watch them anywhere and anytime.
This article provides 10 TV series that are perfect for German learners because they are fun, easy, and most importantly — addictive!
- Der Tatortreiniger (Crime Scene Cleaner)
Did anyone mention the dryness of German humor to you yet? They were right. German humor can be as dry as at it gets, and pretty hilarious too, believe it or not.
Crime scene cleaner Heiko “Schotty” Schotte works as a facility cleaner in Hamburg. His mission is to erase the final signs of the deceased. It’s neither a crime thriller nor a detective drama; rather, a lighthearted look at the work of the crime scene cleaner, with the criminal cases taking a back seat.
The 20-minute episodes are generously peppered with situational irony, which stems from Schotty’s encounters with the victim’s families, acquaintances, and, in one case, even the victim’s ghost.
You don’t need me to tell you that Dark is worthwhile your time. But in case you’ve been unsure about giving it a chance, I won’t regret telling you to start watching this mystery science fiction thriller at your earliest convenience.
Dark follows individuals from the fictitious German town of Winden as they search for the truth in the aftermath of a child’s disappearance. They investigate the ties that bind four separated families in order to uncover a sinister time travel plot that spans multiple generations.
Childrens’ disappearances expose the damaged relationships, parallel lifestyles, and dark pasts of four families that dwell there, unraveling a four-generation mystery.
When members of the show’s major families discover a wormhole in the cave system beneath the local nuclear power station, the first season expands to encompass 1986 and 1953 via time travel.
Set in a divided Germany in 1983, at a time when Cold War tensions between East and West were at an all-time high. Martin Rauch, a 24-year-old East German soldier pulled from the shadows, goes undercover for the East German Secret Service as a West German soldier.
He must learn the secrets of NATO military strategy while laying low in the West German army. Everything is new, nothing is as it appears, and everyone he meets is concealing political and personal secrets.
As a novice spy, his mistakes put his cover in jeopardy all the time, forcing his agency to take drastic steps.
- Perfume
A woman’s corpse is discovered on the Lower Rhine. Her pubic hair, underarm hair, and red hair have all been shaved off. Five former boarding school pupils are discovered by investigators Nadja Simon and Matthias Köhler, as well as prosecutor Grünberg, with whom Nadja is having an affair. They were experimenting with human odors at the time, inspired by the novel The Perfume, and knew the victim from their school days.
The unresolved case of a little kid who vanished at the time is brought to light as well. His body, when discovered, bears the same mutilations as the previous victim. A prostitute is also killed, and she is similarly mutilated.
Erol Birkan and Kurt Grimmer, two police investigators, are investigating the death of fictitious Turkish-German footballer Orkan Erdem.
The crime drives Berlin into a panic, and the list of suspects includes Neo-Nazis from Berlin’s Marzahn district, the Arab Mafia from the footballer’s neighborhood, Turkish nationalists enraged that the celebrity is playing for Germany rather than Turkey, football enthusiasts, and the Berlin Mafia.
The line of evidence might potentially go to the capital’s top offices. The two cops will have to go deep into Berlin’s underbelly in order to discover the truth.
- Babylon Berlin
Growing poverty and unemployment contrast sharply with the city’s nightlife’s excesses and indulgences, as well as its abundant creative spirit. Gereon Rath, a young Cologne police investigator, is moved to Berlin to investigate a criminal case involving a pornographic ring controlled by the Berlin Mafia.
What looks to be a simple case of blackmail quickly exposes itself to be a scandal that will forever alter the lives of Gereon and his surroundings.
Last, but not least, Germany’s favorite and much-loved TV show, Tatort.
Tatort, which is German for “crime scene,” is the country’s longest-running television program. Since the 1970s, they’ve been producing 30 feature-length episodes every year, and it’s undoubtedly the most talked-about program on television.
It follows a rotating group of police investigators as they investigate murders and put the week’s biggest mysteries to rest across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
Learning through films and tv shows is an approved method of learning languages. These TV shows are full of humor and interesting plots that will keep you hooked. Being addicted to learning German won’t sound as impossible once you immerse yourself in the world of TV fiction… What better, painless way to master the language, right?
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