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If you're interested in politics and are learning on the intermediate or advanced level, you might be interested in the websites for the magazines Der Spiegel, Focus, or the website for the newspaper Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung. If you're learning beginner's an easier to read newspaper is the Bild. This also has a lot of stories about celebrities in it, as do the magazines Bunte and Gala.
If you can pick up videos on your computer (mine does a lot of puffing), you might want to look at the websites for the ARD and ZDF, which are the two main networks in Germany. With these websites it's possible to watch German television, as numerous videos are offered. To hear German radio online, you might want to look at the websites for Bayern 1 or Radio Arabella. Both of these are Munich radio stations. Although many of the songs are in English, Spanish, or Italian, the news and weather reports are a good opportunity to improve hearing skills. If you're interested in traditional music, at 7:00 every evening German time (6 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time), Bayern 1 plays an hour of Bavarian music, along with news reports about life in Bavaria. It wasn't very long ago when it was very difficult to get access to foreign publications or broadcasting st
