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Systematic
Courses and Grammars
- AATG
list of free online
courses
Compiled by the American
Association of Teachers of
German
- Learn
German Free
Online
A directory of quality
resources for learning German
on the net. All sites included
are in English and were
reviewed and selected with
care. The focus is on free
content, but the site also
reviews textbooks and
language software.
- Deutsche
Welle
Sprachkurse
From the main page, click on
"Deutschkurse" in the left
hand frame.
- BBC:
German
Steps
An excellent online course for
beginners, with lots of sample
audio, concise grammar
explanations, useful vocab
lists and up-to-date cultural
notes [e.g. go to the list
of all the "Cultural
Notes"
via the navigation bar on the
left, and then click on "The
clubbing scene in
Germany"]
- German
4
Everyone
Free interactive German
lessons, including lots of
exercises, vocabulary games
(crossword-puzzles, etc..) and
German
audio-examples.
- Nancy
Thuleen's German Grammar
pages
An excellent compilation of
clear and informative
explanations and exercises
compiled by an instructor at
the University of Wisconsin.
- Essential
German, by Eugene
Moutoux
Methodical, thorough,
no-frills explanations and
examples followed by exercises
(with answers available) and
also including some cultural
notes. The site is divided
into 4 "books" and should thus
offer something to students at
all levels!
- The
German Electronic
Textbook
Concise and clear explanations
with exercises on a wide range
of topics; excellent site for
beginners.
- Indo-European
Languages:
German
This site provides precise
summaries of all the basic
grammar topics, as well as
lists of basic vocabulary
arranged by topic, for
(currently) 14 Indo-European
languages. The link takes you
directly to the German page.
- webgerman.com
This site has a useful (and
colorful) grammar section, and
a wide variety of other
resources for students and
teachers.
- German
for
Travellers
Commercial site intended for
beginners. Wide variety
of well-done multimedia
exercises; concise, readable
explanations.
- Canoo.net
You may need to go through a
lot of clicks to get to what
you want, but once you learn
to navigate through it, this
site is a tremendous resource
if you're interested in verb
tables, word formation trees
etc. Note the site is only in
German. If you use the LEO
online dictionary and click on
a word for more information,
you will see its tremendously
informative Canoo.net entry.
- Internet
Handbook of German
Grammar
Methodical and clearly
presented with lots of
comprehensive charts and
highlights, but few examples
or references to everyday
usage, and no
exercises.
- Fundamentals
of
German
A reference grammar assembled
at the University of Houston.
Lots of charts, some examples,
no exercises.
- Deutsch
Online
An online course offered by
the University of Victoria,
including explanations,
exercises and more. A
demo of the first week is
available, and worth looking
at for beginners.
- Oklahoma
State Online German
Courses
Impressive site; even without
subscribing to their distance
courses, you can listen to
dialogs with sound files, do
exercises with hints and the
option of checking your
answers, and thus work through
three levels of German
courses.
- Foreign
Languages for
Travellers
Gives you the rudiments and
some links to pursue to learn
more. Also a useful site
if you're ever interested in
getting the basics of some
other language at short
notice!
- Toms
Deutschseite
A tribute to the power of
love: the author (who is
German) created all the
materials on this site to help
his foreign girlfriend learn
German! The site includes
detailed explanations in
English of all the basic
grammar topics, worksheets
with exercises (no answer
keys), vocabulary lists and
more.
- Thirty
Lessons in Reading
German
This site is still in progress
and as of 3/2002 I would not
recommend it, but this may
change. Here's the
beginning of the description:
"Based on a public domain book
used by American armed forces
during the Post-War occupation
of Germany. Completion of this
course of 30 self-study
lessons will teach you to
speak and read German. This
course includes grammar,
pronunciation, some jokes,
numbers (cardinal, fractional,
and ordinal), days of week,
months, and more." A
warning:
Lesson 5's title, "Der Chef
ist überall," which means
"The boss is everywhere," is
translated on this site as
"The boss is over everything."
This is not a good sign for
the reliability of this site,
but still it's an ambitious
and promising
project.
- Interaktives
Lernprogramm zur
Rechtschreibreform
Learn the new German
spelling. Designed for
native speakers, but this may
be harder for them than for
you :)
- RECHTSCHREIBREFORM:
Übungen und
Tests
Learn the new German
spelling. Designed for
native speakers, but this may
be harder for them than for
you :)
Compendiums
of Online Exercises
- AATG
list of Web
Exercises
Organized by
topic.
- TU
Darmstadt's compendium of
online
exercises
Organized by topic, including
some exercises on technical
German (Fachsprache Physik,
Mathematik etc.). Most,
but not all of the exercises
listed have directions in
German, and many are quite
challenging.
- Hogne
Vindenes'
Deutschübungen
120 interaktive
Übungen--viele
grammatische Themen. Von
einem norwegischen
Deutschlehrer
gemacht.
- Goethe
Institut Deutsch-Englisch
Tests
100 short tests for vocabulary
building. You fill in
the missing German word in a
series of partial
English-German
translations. If the
drag and drop function does
not work on your computer, you
can type the words into the
appropriate boxes
manually.
- Deutsche
Internet
Übungen
An annotated list of German
grammar and culture exercises
compiled by Andreas
Lixl-Purcell.
- Professor
Warkentin's Online German
Lessons
Keyed to Treffpunkt Deutsch,
3rd Ed., but useful with other
texts too.
- Katherine
Munro's Language Teaching
Resources
Includes an excellent
compilation of more than 2800
online exercises on German
language and culture,
organised by topic, difficulty
and resources required, as
well as a variety of other
links ranging from humor sites
to reference sources.
Compiled by Katherine Munro of
West Moreton Anglican College
in Australia.
- Bookmarks
for German grammar web
exercises
This site provides links to
interactive exercises from
various sites, some good, some
bad...
- LernNetz
A large collection of
exercises of various types,
some with instant
feedback. This site
(which is no longer updated)
is Swedish, and you will
occasionally get references to
grammar explanations in
Swedish, but most exercises
and examples are in German
only]
- The
Virtual CALL
Library
This page provides a Web
interface through which the
user may download shareware
and freeware for
computer-assisted language
learning.
Test/Quiz
Yourself
- about.com's
German Games and
Quizzes
A great compilation of online
quizzes on a wide range of
topics ranging from grammar
and listening to culture and
current events.
- Dialang
Projekt
Created with support from the
European commission, this site
provides diagnostic self-tests
that give you feedback on your
strengths and weaknesses in
German, or any of the 13 other
major European languages.
Feedback from a student: the
testing format is not
necessarily very reliable, but
the exercises are "very good
and challenging...almost
addictive."
- Fit
for
Europe
You can choose to read the
site in English, French,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese,
Greek, or German: click on
"Hallo" when you enter for
German, "Hello" for
English. There you will
find information about each
country in the European Union,
employment information, and
many more links. Most
interesting are the
really well-done and fun
language tests in EACH OF THE
EU's 11 NATIONAL
LANGUAGES: English,
Italian, French, Danish,
Portuguese, Swedish, German,
Greek, Finnish, Spanish, and
Dutch. Each test covers
practical language skills you
would need to work in that
country (grammar, vocabulary,
reading comprehension,
spelling conventions, cultural
appropriateness, etc.) and
covers the type of language
used in casual conversations,
business interactions,
websites, higher ed programs,
etc.
- Das
Spiel
007
Answer 28 questions about the
German-speaking countries in
order to decode the text and
find the murderer. You can
then submit your solution in
order to be eligible to win
"tolle Preise."
- Goethe
Institute Webquiz celebrating
the European Year of Languages
2001
Win a free Goethe Institute
language course in
Germany! You can choose
to take the quiz about
European artists, musicians,
and cultural figures in
Bulgarian, Dutch, English,
German, Italian, Portuguese,
or Spanish. A clever
part of the application is
that although you choose which
language you want when you
enter the site, you still see
the quiz questions in the
language of culture about
which the question
revolves. When you move
the cursor over the question a
pop-up box appears with the
translation in your requested
language. To view the
German special characters on a
Mac using Netscape, you'll
need to select the "Central
Europe (ISO 8859-2)" character
set; with a little
experimenting, you should be
able to find the right
character set on a PC/ in
Explorer.
- Weltreise
Deutsch
This online quiz takes you to
websites all over the world
and presents a variety of
surprising facts about German
culture abroad.
Textbook
Websites
These
sites accompanying various
introductory textbooks usually
include some grammar summaries
and/or practice, some web
activities, and self-tests of
various sorts, and can be used
even if you are not using the
textbook, though often this means
the vocabulary and context of the
exercises may be unfamiliar.
- Neue
Horizonte
Website
Excellent website.
Includes a web search
activity, a self-test and
electronic vocabulary
flashcards for each
chapter. Even if you are
not using this book, these
exercises are
helpful.
- Deutsch
Heute
Website
Includes a web search
activity, link list and
self-test for each
chapter.
- Treffpunkt
Deutsch
Website
Includes vocab quizzes, basic
grammar exercises, web writing
activities and annotated links
for each chapter.
- Fremde
Sprache
Deutsch
Includes grammar and
vocabulary exercises with
answers (hold the mouse on the
traffic light to see the right
answer; click at the bottom to
get an overall idea of how
you're doing), web exercises
and supplementary worksheets
to print out.
- Deutsch
Na Klar!
Website
Includes detailed web
exercises for each
chapter
- Vorsprung
Website
Only links and web search
activities are available at
this point
(8/2003).
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