u/Lasse999

Hi everyone,

I’ve been learning German for about 8 months. I feel a strong need to immerse myself in the language, but I’m struggling because I genuinely dislike the mainstream media landscape. The TV shows feel like cheesy sitcoms, YouTube is boring, and the music scene is mostly generic pop.

The only genre where I think the German scene excels is darkwave/coldwave. I love the atmospheric, darker sound, but the selection of major artists who actually sing in German is too limited to sustain daily language exposure.

Consuming media I don't like feels like a chore, and my brain just tunes it out.

For anyone who had this problem: how did you handle immersion?