Learn German with ARD Mediathek — NoaLingua

In short

Use an accessible ARD programme with German captions to combine listening, word lookup and retelling. NoaLingua reads the programme’s available subtitle track.

Steps

Open an ARD Mediathek programme marked UT that is available in your region.
Choose your learning and translation languages in NoaLingua.
Listen to a short passage and click words in the subtitle box.
Repeat the passage, then describe its main point without translation.

Try this exercise

Try a short news report: identify the event, where it happened and one reason given by the speaker.

Watch out for

Only captioned, accessible programmes work. NoaLingua does not bypass regional restrictions or create missing subtitle tracks.

Check your result

Explain the report and recall one expression in its original sentence.

A manageable session

Choose one short passage whose overall meaning you can follow. Decide what you want to practise before turning on a feature: hearing words, recalling their meaning or producing a sentence. Keep a note of the difficult moment instead of collecting every unfamiliar word. Stop when you can explain that passage without looking at its translation.

Come back to it

In your next session, try the same passage before opening the answer. If it is still difficult, shorten it and repeat the troublesome part. If it feels easy, use the expression in a new sentence or move to another passage. This is a suggested routine, not a promise of a particular learning speed.

Translation follows your chosen settings and may require an online provider. A printed exercise or exported subtitle file does not download the source video. Use material you are entitled to access and keep a backup before changing your vocabulary collection.