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Resources for learning German

Featured Resources

  • German Course for Beginners - Learn German - online, simple, independently and for free! 10 tables build up an overview of basic German grammar. Basic verb forms and an introduction to German syntax are presented in a simple and understandable way. This German course was compiled with total beginners in mind.
  • Exercises for German Course for Beginners - Exercise for previous German Beginner Courses
  • Advanced German Lessons (1-8) - Learn German - online, simple, independently and for free! The first 8 German lessons of our online German course present basic rules of German grammar and language.
  • Advanced German Lessons (9-16) - Lessons 9 -16 of our online German course offer even more information on the working of German language.
  • Advanced German Lessons (17-24) - Learn German - online, simple, independent and for free! Interactive online exercises in three levels of difficulty: easy, medium and difficult. You can practise your German independently and test your progress whenever you have time and feel like it.
  • German Portal - Very useful portal to learn German online

Online Lessons

  • Learn German - Learn German guide, all about how to learn german and how to speak german.
  • German Language Guide - German Language Guide -- Learn how to express yourself when you get a German speaking country. Numbers, vowels, colors, directions, professions, body parts and more, in the German language.
  • Wikipedia - German Language - This is the Wikipedia entry on the German Language. It's a good place to start.
  • Foreign Service Institute - German Course - This is the Foreign Service Institute's free course in German.
  • LanguageRealm - German-English proverb dictionary, tips and tricks.
  • Washjeff - An online picture dictionary with high quality images. CAPL stands for "Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon" and offers license-free imagery. From Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania.
  • Dw-world - This governmentally sponsored portal provides access to all kinds of German/Germany related things, from news, podcasts to information about living and studying in Germany. It's always uptodate, it's available in 30 languages, so it's useful for everyone.
  • Gutenberg - Spiegel - This page provides open and free access to classical German literature, partly even as audio books.
  • Goethe Institute - The Goethe Institute is a national German institution for cultural exchange. It provides language courses in many countries, online learning material and might inform you of German related activities in your own country.

Podcasts / Online Videos

  • My Daily Phrase - German - Learn German step by step, day by day, phrase by phrase. Podcast.
  • Learn to speak German - Learn to speak German, to read German and to understand German with this free Podcast from Germany and Switzerland.
  • About - Free online German course with audio.

Software / CDs / DVDs

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Dictionaries

  • Babelfish - Good translation website.
  • BBC - Free translation and language forum.
  • Apimac - The Apimac English-German Dictionary is an English/German translation dictionary for Mac OS X that combines a comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary with grammatical notes and an ample phrase book containing thousand of English phrases with translations into German.
  • Zoomschool - English-German dictionary for animals.
  • TU Chemnitz - Online German-English and English-German dictionary from the TU Chemnitz.
  • Dict - A very good online German-English dictionary.
  • Dict.Leo - Dictionar - Awesome dictionary for German<>English, German<>French, and German<>Spanish.

Books

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Beginner Resources

Culture / News / Fun / Other

  • Wikio - German news service, podcast and blogs. (Articles compiled from thousands of professional and amateur sources and translations of articles in multiple languages available.)
  • BBC Language-German - Good Source for language learning, practice and news and media about Germany. Also can take a test to gauge your language level.
  • IEE - A nice chart showing side-by-side German and English abbreviations from A to Z.
  • Travlang - H. F. Vogel's multilingual glossary of European and German traffic code terms.

Language Classes and Programs

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