Yes it’s bad. If people begin wearing clothes at a nude beach, it won’t be a nude beach for very long.

Danish person here: A lot of this is very much “politician speech”. They would of course never admit that their proposals would limit free speech in any way. What the Danish government seems to be planning is a ban on burning the Quran (and other holy texts) outside of embassies, which obviously is a restrictions of free speech, albeit a minor one.

The other narrative that Lars Løkke (Foreign Minister) is hitting at the moment is that the abolition of the blasphemy law in 2017 went too far, and rolling it back a bit is necessary to protect “Danish interests”.

I think as long as you can recognize at least part of the Zangendeutsch, then it’s fine. Any comprehensible input is good!

I always think of this xkcd when the subject comes up: https://xkcd.com/1414/

Bernhard Rennhofer macht herrvorragenden Videos überm Bauingeniörwissenschaft, meistens tatsächliche Bauprojekten in Wien.

I just follow “literature news”, where whatever is exciting in the literature, or just corresponds to someone’s hobby horse inevitably shows up. I’m pretty happy to have found sources that align well with my tastes

Specifically:

• Papierstau Podcast (warning: German)
• Information (warning, Danish)
• European Review of Books

This is fantastic. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to new music that just strung a chord (hah) so immediately. Thank you for sharing.

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And for your other question, input has worked for me at least. Learning German this last year, I’ve almost become a full believer in the input hypothesis. I think as long as you just consume a shit ton of content, at the right level, you will get better.

In my experience, hunkering down to just read books (on my level!) has helped my fluency way more than outputting has. Reading is awesome, because it is simply the fastest way to consume content, reading is faster than listening after all.

Kein Mandel kein Handel, herr Eiscremeverkaufer

Ich empfehle den Papirstau Podcast. Er ist einer Literaturpodcast, was sehr hilfreich beim Deutsch lernen ist, weil du einfach viel Büchern lesen musst. Und die Hosts sind freundlich, und sogar manchmal lustig.