{"id":176591679,"date":"2018-10-31T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog-new\/?p=176591679"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:04:30","slug":"german-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/german-audiobooks\/","title":{"rendered":"German Audiobooks from Beginner to Advanced and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may begin to suspect that you\u2019re a language nerd when you find yourself looking for apartments far away from your place of work on purpose. That way, of course, you\u2019ll have more time on the subway each day to learn languages. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It may sound crazy, but that\u2019s what I did just recently and I don\u2019t regret it one bit. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of my favorite ways to use that commute time is by listening to long podcasts and audiobooks. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in today\u2019s post I\u2019ll introduce you to some outstanding German audiobooks &#8211; perfect for any time your schedule is free to get some listening time in.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Children\u2019s Stories<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xn--hrbuch-wxa.com\/kostenlos\/emil-und-die-detektive-2g3rhf9.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emil und die Detektive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Erich K\u00e4stner<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emil and the Detectives <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a classic story from 1929 Berlin about a little boy going to the big city for the first time and falling into an adventure of thieves and child detectives. It became immediately popular upon its release and remains well-known in Germany to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thalia.de\/shop\/home\/artikeldetails\/ID40555089.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herr der Diebe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Cornelia Funke<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may already know this book by its English title <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Thief Lord<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Designed for ages eight and up, this story about a band of children living on the streets of Venice is sure to awaken the child and the traveler within.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176591812 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/venice_canal.jpg\" alt=\"Venice Canal\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/venice_canal.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/venice_canal-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/venice_canal-600x257.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Best-selling German audiobooks<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thalia.de\/shop\/home\/artikeldetails\/ID42430744.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globus Dei: Vom Nordpol bis Patagonien<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Helge Schneider<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helge Schneider is a beloved German comedian and musician whose career spans more than thirty years. In this book he travels, as you may guess, from the North Pole to Patagonia and more, narrating the journey with his characteristic non sequitur wit. His writing (and reading) style makes the book complicated for a learner, but despite the length of the journey the story is relatively brief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stern.de\/kultur\/hoerbuchtipps\/-quality-land--hoerbuch--ein-bisschen--westworld----leider-ohne-cowboys-7766410.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quality-Land<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Marc Uwe Kling<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Quality Land, everything is at your beck and call. Or rather, everything is optimized to a point where you don\u2019t need to beck <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">call &#8211; the algorithms know where you need to go, what you want to eat, and who you want to be with. But what happens when the machines that run our lives start to break down in mysteriously human ways?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176591813 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/robot.jpg\" alt=\"Robot\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/robot.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/robot-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/robot-600x257.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Old Free Books<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can\u2019t write an article without recommending a free resource. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\">Archive.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\/\">Librivox<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">Project Gutenberg<\/a> are three places to find literally hundreds of free public domain German audiobooks along with the full texts. Since the recordings are more often than not done by volunteers, the quality of the recordings might be a little less than polished sometimes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another thing to note is that these classic books are unabridged more often than not. That means the language used in them may be pretty old-fashioned. For the advanced learner, though, these are absolutely perfect for getting a deep understanding of German culture through literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLn7iYKq-G3PJ2TnCmQCt-l1MREDhclGig\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176600420 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Blog-Banner-1-1024x288.jpg\" alt=\"Learn German with the LingQ podcast\" width=\"870\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Blog-Banner-1-1024x288.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Blog-Banner-1-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Blog-Banner-1-768x216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Blog-Banner-1-600x169.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Blog-Banner-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you get these audiobooks in your hands, you can use them as extensive listening material as mentioned before. But you can also take the text and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/how-to-import-and-study-ebooks-on-lingq\/\">import it into LingQ<\/a>\u00a0(including ebooks) for hours upon hours of fantastic active study practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick example of how I import content into LingQ. I&#8217;ll be using the Archive.org.<\/p>\n<p>First, find a book or magazine that looks interesting. I&#8217;ll use\u00a0Aktueller Software Markt &#8211; Ausgabe, since the cover seems pretty cool.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176591817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-13-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1370\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-13-1.png 1370w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-13-1-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-13-1-1024x468.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-13-1-768x351.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-13-1-600x274.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1370px) 100vw, 1370px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Copy the whole text and import it into LingQ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176591816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-15.png\" alt=\"Import German transcript in LingQ\" width=\"637\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-15.png 1199w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-15-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-15-1024x524.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-15-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-15-600x307.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176591818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen.png\" alt=\"Import German audiobook into the LingQ App\" width=\"716\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen.png 1294w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-1024x319.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-768x239.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-600x187.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From there, it&#8217;s pretty straight forward. Paste your text and add an image and audio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176591819 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-16.png\" alt=\"Import German audiobooks into the LingQ app\" width=\"939\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-16.png 939w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-16-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-16-768x500.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-16-600x390.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 939px) 100vw, 939px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click save &amp; open and start studying!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-176591820 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-17.png\" alt=\"Using LingQ to Study German online\" width=\"1209\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-17.png 1209w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-17-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-17-1024x402.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-17-768x302.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-17-600x236.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1209px) 100vw, 1209px\" \/><br \/>\nRemember how I mentioned that audiobooks are great to study during your commute to work. Well, you can do that plus a whole lot more by importing your German audiobooks into LingQ and using the mobile app!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also. LingQ\u2019s dictionary lookup and flashcards are just a handful of ways to make your German study more efficient. So look around for your headphones and get listening now!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out LingQ today to discover the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingq.com\/en\/learn-german-online\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">best way to learn German<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from content you love!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Thomas minored in German years ago and now lives in China, but he still finds a way to use German every day. He enjoys lengthy podcasts and pensive German poetry.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may begin to suspect that you\u2019re a language nerd when you find yourself looking for apartments far away from your place of work on purpose. 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