# 1 Talking about places and locations

In this section, you have a first look at places and people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. You familiarise yourself with the pronunciation of place names in German, and you talk about the location of cities and towns in German-speaking countries. You also talk about where some people come from (some well-known and some not so well-known).

OpenLearn - Beginners' German: Places and people
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