Radio stations in Hoch Deutsch

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Hi, can anyone recommend some good German radio stations? I'd like to be able to listen to some good music and improve my German at the same time if possible. Thanks all

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Most of SRF's output is in high German. Whether the music is 'good' depends on your own taste

http://www.srf.ch/radio-srf-3/player

Most regional stations in Switzerland will use a mix of high German and Swiss German.

This is a comprehensive list of radio stations in Germany and Austria - I'm sure something will fit the bill!

http://www.listenlive.eu/germany.html

http://www.listenlive.eu/austria.html

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That's great thanks. Will check them out. Fluency here I come )

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I found the classical/'Kultur' station, SRF2, a good resource for training German comprehension. Most of the broadcast is Hochdeutsch, and the discussion programs tend to be longer - allowing a beginning German learner to sort of more naturally fall into the rythm of the langauge, making discussion easier to follow.

My only gripe is that SrF2 seem to play the same pieces rather too frequently. How a classical station - with centuries of great music from which to choose - can have a limited playlist is beyond me.

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If you have internet radio, try Bayern 5.

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SWR1 ("Eins gehört gehört") is a favorite. If you like 80's music that is.

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SWF 1, 2 & 3 - SouthWest Funk from Baden Wurtenburg ........ proper German German.

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SWR3 ! .... another German radio station ...

http://www.swr3.de/startpage/-/id=47...kol/index.html

Good music, great people, funny stories ....

I live in the hills above Aarau and SWR3 was and is the radio station with the best signal strengh in that area. Without SWR3 I would not have survived the 3 years of very intensive & complicated & stressful (and successful) renovation works of my house up there. And even today - while listening to SWR3 household chores are considerably less tedious...

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Baden Württemberg....

Proper German.....

Hmmm.......

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They don't speak dialect on the SWR stations ... they're actually keeping it pretty High German

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True, I was only kidding.

But it's at its funniest when they don't...

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I used to like to listen to B5 Aktuell when I lived near Munich. It is a news station - so no music, but you can practice your German and learn a bit what is going on...plus, sometimes you can hear FC Bayern matches

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Pedantic info: the part just north of the border is Baden, not Swabia. It is important to them.

Modest experience: I was pleasantly surprised that the under-40 generation speaks high German with very little dialect influence in Lörrach and Konstanz. The more rural the area, the more dialect influence there is, though. Their parents speak heavier dialect flavoured High German. Even if the southern-Badener do use heavy dialect in family, it's not as dominant in social and professional life as in Switzerland or even other parts of Germany like Bavaria. The more hand-crafter/artisan the profession, the more dialect-flavoured the daily language, of course. But I am in the process of getting closer to Germany and my kitchen builder and the painters spoke nice colloquial southern high German with me, not dialect (just some typical phonetic characteristics).

Short version: learning high German will be easier north of the border, even by a few kilometers and even if it's not the wonderful beautiful northern German I love above all.

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I forgot to suggest Deutsche Welle - although there is no music, there is no dialect at all, and some programmes are tailored for learners.

They even have a large website dedicated to learners of German:

http://www.dw.de/learn-german/s-2469

One nice feature are the mp3 files of the news read nice and slowly for you to practise, along with a text transcription, e.g. today's news

Text:

http://www.dw.de/28062013-langsam-ge...ten/a-16913045

And read out s-l-o-w-l-y:

http://www.dw.de/popups/mediaplayer/...diaId_16913172

Deutschlandfunk is also good for learning formal high German:

http://www.dradio.de/streaming/dlf.m3u

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I listen to SRF4, a 24 hour Swiss news station, but obviously covers international affairs. I find it great for keeping up to date and keeping 'in tune' with German. The German spoken is generally High German, sometimes an interviewee will speak with a strong local accent or perhaps even in dialect. I play this channel on my tablet/phone using the TuneIn app...