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Coffee break German seems too slow for me.
While I'm barely picking anything up, Gothe-Geschichten (on Spotify) seems far more applicable and useful. They still talk very slowly but it's 100% German. I assume it's around A2+, but it seems like even as a beginner A1 I'm making progress with it.
Easy German on YouTube is strange. It's clearly full of B2+ speaking but it's all very slow. There's some segments for A1/A2 beginners. It feels like most of Easy German is more for the B1++ levels, where they need slow but complex talking (trying to reach Native...)
In all cases, slow German isn't real German. It's a useful stepping stone as I reach the next skill level, but it's clear I need to find full speed practice somewhere somehow. Or in other words: slow German helps me learn new concepts. But I need something that reinforces my already known concepts and brings them up to native speed IMO.
The best I got for that is the nearly daily A2 level news briefs from DW. https://learngerman.dw.com/de/kurz-und-leicht/s-69137519
It's about the same speed as any news broadcast, so it's still slower than German Comedy or real life German talking. But it's the closest thing to a real but still beginner-friendly German learning material IMO.