I'm looking for methods and resources (such as music along with their text - audio books) to improve my German pronunciation, other than talking to a native speaker.
EDIT:
I'm given advice by others a lot, I'm looking for resources now. For instance, take a look at this question.
The Radio station Deutschlandfunk offers a text transcript along with some of it's audio content, like in this example: radio feature about the project "Zeitungszeugen" (click the headline to hear the audio)
Basically I see the following possible approaches:
Of these three possibilities, watching movies was the one that helped me the most. The benefit from watching movies is, you can get an impression of the culture, too.
Movies and music can be obtained through the normal channels, e.g. Amazon. In a foreign land immigrants tend to build groups that meet regularly. Try to find native speakers at these meetings.
I recommend two specific audio books, since I already mentioned them in the chat and I immediately thought about them when I read the linked chat, and Gigili likes fairy tales.
The books are written by Kai Meyer and made as audio play by Zaubermond. They are about the Brothers Grimm as investigators in a setting that is a mixture of historical Germany and fiction. Goethe is involved in both stories, and you'll likely see him differently afterwards. There are a lot of great speakers involved and I really liked the books. Most German is well-spoken, it has a lot of very different speakers (so a lot of variation), and some dialects too.
I'd recommend to start with Die Geisterseher, though I had Die Winterprinzessin first, but Die Winterprinzessin has several references to the events in Die Geisterseher.
Listen to audio resources with well spoken German and repeat the texts yourself. Record your voice and compare it to the original speakers.
