German YouTube: A Tour
9:00 AM
From time to time I'll pick a German video for my Month in German series. Today, I'm going to share some of my favorite German-language YouTube channels. Watching YouTube has been my saving grace since I haven't been to Germany since 2014 - it really helps me keep up my skills, remember how people who aren't news anchors talk, and hear different regional dialects. It's also an excellent way to procrastinate - wasting time on the internet magically becomes brushing up my German.
ConsiderCologne
This is one of my very favorite YouTube channels. It's run by two girls who are in college in Cologne; they do a lot of beauty videos, but what I really love are their weekly vlogs. This is a common theme for me because I like seeing how daily lives in other countries differ from mine.
Ella TheBee
Watching Ella's videos is like getting advice from an older sister who knows what to do about everything. She gives fantastic advice and has interesting other videos as well. I also really like that she's not a full-time blogger - since she has a day job her everyday life isn't too out of the ordinary.
Lenas Wunderwelt
This is the very first German language YouTube channel I ever came across - I was looking for something about a Bioladen and one of her videos came up. She doesn't post often, but I like her videos when she does!
Michael Buchinger
Michael's videos are usually funny - instead of monthly favorites, he does a list of things he hated at the end of each month. I really like his cooking videos and his reality show parodies.
Snukieful
This channel has nothing to do with Jersey Shore as far as I can tell. (They do go to the beach a lot, though.) It's run by a girl named Marie who posts a variety of videos. Her vlog channel, Manda, is also really interesting because she and her boyfriend were in New Zealand for a semester, and they're very different than me because they're really outdoorsy.
LucieRedhead
Lucie is the latest addition to my subscription box. The food diary is a staple video for many YouTubers, but Lucie's food diaries look like something that an actual person might eat - instead of apologizing or saying that she knows what she is eating is bad, she simply says that she likes chocolate, so she eats chocolate for dessert.
marlinelina
This is a bonus - Elina is Swiss and speaks German, but her channel is all in English. She talks about books and language mostly, and is good at talking about why we read.
If anyone has any other suggestions for German-language YouTubers, let me know! I'd love to add a Swiss German channel, but I haven't found anything that I really like so far.
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