Good Bye Lenin!

Film NightGerman
Written By Sean Price

Tonight’s film comes from Germany!

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

Whether you’re learning German or just looking for something to watch, Good Bye Lenin! is an interesting film.

Attempting to come to terms with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR - often referred to in English as East Germany), a young man tries to hide the events from his mother after she wakes from a coma.

If you’re learning German, the following video discusses the film’s themes :

Wir in der Filter-Bubble : Good Bye Lenin!

The following footage is tagesschau’s coverage of 3 October 1990, known as Tag der Deutschen Einheit (German Unity Day) :

Tag der Deutschen Einheit - tagesschau vom 3. Oktober 1990

If you’re unsure when and how to use subtitles, advice can be found here :

How to Use Subtitles to Learn a Language

If you’re interested in learning German, there’s a How to Learn Languages guide :

How to Learn German

Take care, and enjoy the process!

Sean Price

This article was written by Sean Price, the Founder of How to Learn Languages.

When he's not teaching English as a foreign language, he creates eBooks and Courses that make learning languages affordable and enjoyable for anyone.

He learnt French in 2018 during a study abroad year at the Sorbonne, before completing a degree in History at the University of Leeds with First Class Honours in the summer of the following year.

During his final year, he taught himself Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan, as part of dissertation research into fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

Although he says ‘learnt’ and ‘taught himself’ in the past tense, he also says one of the joys of learning a language is that there’s always more to learn.

More recently, he's been teaching himself German, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian.

Since moving to Vietnam to teach English in 2022, he's been enjoying learning Vietnamese. In less than one and a half years learning Vietnamese, he was able to achieve Level 5 (the highest being Level 6) of the official Vietnamese proficiency exam of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University, Hanoi (Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn - Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội).

If you'd like to learn a language, all you need is an internet connection and a How to Learn Languages eBook or Course.

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