Learn German with Dogs of Berlin
Yes, Dogs of Berlin is a C1-level pick for German learners. Two mismatched detectives investigate a footballer's murder across Berlin's underworld. Fast Berlin street and Kiez slang, Turkish-German vocabulary, heavy regional accent, profanity, and overlapping dialogue make it a demanding C1.
Key takeaways
- Dogs of Berlin is a C1-level pick for German, best suited to advanced learners.
- A gritty Berlin crime drama thick with street slang and accent.
- It runs 1 season, 10 episodes, so its vocabulary recurs enough that finishing it builds real German listening.
- Against the 12 other German titles in our difficulty index, it is easier than 0 of them.
- Expect everyday German such as der Kommissar and das Verbrechen.
- Watch it with German subtitles rather than your own language, which the research links to the biggest listening gain.
- Difficulty
- C1 (hard)
- Best for
- advanced learners
- Format
- TV series
- Length
- 1 season, 10 episodes
- Original audio
- German
- Genre
- crime, thriller, drama
- Platform
- Netflix
- Relative difficulty
- Easier than 0 of 12 other German titles we rate
- In our index
- 1 of 13 German titles
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German words you'll hear in Dogs of Berlin
- der Kommissar
- inspector
- das Verbrechen
- crime
- der Fußball
- football, soccer
- die Wette
- bet
- die Unterwelt
- underworld
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Dogs of Berlin good for learning German?
- Only at an advanced level. It is C1: the Berlin street slang, heavy accent, and overlapping dialogue are demanding, so it suits advanced learners with graded subtitles.