Recommended course material to learn German:

Teach yourself German: https://amzn.to/3a5rVGP

German with ease: https://amzn.to/2K4zoLS

Get a personal language coach to improve your language skills:

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Have you ever dreamed of speaking as many languages as possible? How about if you could speak German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish or Russian, for example? Or maybe even Arabic, Chinese, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian or Japanese? Whatever language.

And if you only needed four weeks for a single language - that would be a dream, wouldn't it? This dream can now become a reality for you. Welcome to the Polyglot Project. We will learn one language per month together from now on. You have got the link to course material we will use for each language in the description of this podcast episode. We will start with German in May, continue with French in June and Spanish in July, so we work through twelve languages within a year.

Subscribe to our podcast now and join the polyglot project - twelve languages in twelve months.

The languages will be: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian and Japanese.

Let me tell you what preparation you have to make. First of all, of course, you need a language course. And here I recommend either Teach yourself German or the German superpack published by Assimil. Of course you can also choose any other language course you feel comfortable with.

The only requirement that a German course must fulfill for this project is that all German texts are also translated into English and that the German texts are also available as audio documents.

In addition, do also get yourself an edition of the book "The Little Prince" in both the German and English versions.

If all this is given, prepare yourself mentally for the project.

One question that is asked again and again is: How much time do I have to plan for learning languages? It's easy to say: the more the better. You need some time to learn and some time to relax because a tensed brain doesn't learn well.

If you want to be able to have simple everyday conversations in four weeks, e.g. in the restaurant, in the supermarket or on the street, then 20 minutes twice a day are sufficient. If you want to get to level B1, plan 4 blocks of 20 minutes each per day.

However, if you want to communicate at a high academic level, we recommend that you book an additional 5 hours of individual coaching per week with one of our coaches.

If you like it, you can follow our polyglot project and continue to learn other languages like French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Romanian, Turkish etc. at exactly the same speed and with exactly the same method as you will learn German.

The only thing you have got to do is do what I tell you in these podcast episodes. Sometimes you may think: "I don't have all day to deal with languages." With some things you might talk yourself into saying that you don't want to do it or that you can let that slip a little bit, or that a certain technique doesn't make any sense, but believe me, the method I'm going to introduce to you tomorrow will work.

It has worked a thousand times. In the past with different people. The youngest participant was 15, the oldest was 75 - people like you and me completely, normal people. Any normal intelligent person who is a bit hardworking can learn a language at a decent level in four weeks.

So be there when it starts on the 1st of May.