Online Resources for German Language Learners

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT offers a four German courses (German I-IV) and a course about German Culture, Media, and Society.
Slow German by Annik Ruben – A very nice Podcast about the Germans and Germany. Annik offers a lot of informations and material to practice German.
BBC – The BBC offers a large collection of resources for learning German. Learners can find online courses, speaking resources, and quick fixes.
German language courses from the Deutsch Welle – Deutsche Welle: Learning German, Deutsch lernen! Interactive German language programs for all German learners from Deutsche Welle.
Webgerman – Resources for free, interactive, online learning of foreign languages. The site also has excellent resources for foreign language teachers who want to use the Internet in their curriculum. This page is recommended for use in a foreign language lab as well as for individual learning from any location.
German.about.com – Free German lessons and language resources for students, teachers, and lovers of German – including quizzes, sound files, teaching ideas, online dictionaries, and cultural info. You can practice your German in the chatroom and forums where you’ll meet other German language learners.
iTalki -The online social community for learning a wide variety of different languages including German.
Palabea – This online social network offers video lectures, virtual classrooms, documents, podcasts, and language partners for German language learners.
Livemocha – Livemocha is a free way for German learners to find self-paced lessons, practice, and native speakers who want to share their skills.
German for Travellers – Learn German easily. Take our German Survival course! Free and membership package.
Phonetics – This site contains FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language.
Languageguide.org – Learn German vocabulary through a visual interface. Place your cursor over an image and hear the corresponding word pronounced aloud.
Audio-Lingua – Audio-Lingua offers free mp3 recordings in several languages. Choose below the language you would like to listen to or use the browser on the right-hand side.
Lingorilla – Lingorilla is the first global video community for learning languages.
German Bildungsserver – Are you looking for Internet resources on education and continuing education? The German Education Server, an information portal sponsored by the federal and state governments, is an excellent guide to the education system.
Deutsch üben im Internet – “Deutsch üben im Internet” offers guided interaction with authentic German web-sites for intermediate and beginning students of German. Students do all work on-line, including electronic submission of answers to their instructor.
DeutschLern.net – DeutschLern.net offers interactive exercise für German as foreign languages.
Deutsch Perfekt – Deutsch perfekt is an ideal blend of professional journalism and successful language training. Interesting texts and topical issues provide important insights into life in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and at the same time form the backbone of Deutsch perfekt’s unique language service.

Online dictionaries

BEOLINGUS – Search through more than 900,000 translations with examples and hints, explanations, synonyms, sayings, aphorisms, and quotations in English and German. Browse lists for special topics. Listen to German and English pronunciations spoken by native speakers.
Pons.eu – Online dictionary, Pons, translate, words, reference, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, vocabulary trainer, vocabulary, language, languages, language, learning, language, dictionaries, online dictionary, translator, German-English, German-French, German-Spanish, German -Italian, German, Polish, French-English, Spanish-English, German and Russian.
Canoonet – German Online Dictionary, Grammar, Spelling, Inflection, Wordformation, Morphology, Terminology. Look Up Explanations for Spelling, Grammar and Morphology of the German Language.
DWDS – Digital dictionary of German language.
LEO.org – An Online Service - LEO English-German Dictionary.
DIX: English-German Dictionary – Dictionary for german, spanish, and english, over 203000 translations, grammar, forum, vocabulary trainer.

Regional studies, politics and current events

Magazine-Deutschland – Forum on politics, culture and business in Germany.
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung – Federal organisation for political education. Offers a lot of free materials and books.
German Bundestag – Homepage of the German Bundestag, the national parliament of the Federal Republique of Germany.
Deutschland.de – The Deutschland Portal is the central, non-commercial access to Germany on the Internet. It provides commented link lists in six languages, bundles the German Web offers of high-quality Internet portals and is the virtual international calling card for the Federal Republic of Germany.
German business law – Comments and Resources on German Business Law, Antitrust Law, Energy Law, Telecommunications Law, Trademark Law, Domain Registration, Trademark Law and International Antitrust Law by Joachim Rudo, Attorney-at-Law, Berlin.

Study in Germany – Scholarships to study in Germany

DAAD – German academic exchange service.
Study in Germany – Study in Germany: Information and tips for international students and researchers interested in studying and researching in Germany.
CHE University Ranking 2009/10 – The University Ranking of the Centre for Higher Education development (CHE) helps those who want to start studying to find the right higher education institution. The ways of finding the university that is fitting your needs can be very different. That ist why the University Ranking offers different accesses for the search for the right higher education institution:
Konrad Adenauer Foundation – The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung offers political education, conducts scientific fact-finding research for political projects, grants scholarships to gifted individuals, researches the history of Christian Democracy.
Friedrich Ebert Foundation – Politics, politic education, political research and consulting. The FES spends approximately half of its annual
budget on international activities. Its partners come
from politics, business, associations, trade unions,
academia, and also from the communication sector
and cultural institutions.
Heinrich Böll Foundation -
Friedrich Naumann Foundation – The Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) is a non-profit organisation that promotes liberal democracy, rule of law, economic freedom and respect for human rights. Working hand-in-hand with its local partner organisations, the Foundation provides policy consultation as well as educational programmes for interested members of the general public, NGOs and governmental agencies worldwide. In so doing, it aims to contribute towards a freer, more peaceful and more open world society where people live freely and in peace.
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation – The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is actively involved in political education throughout the Federal Republic of Germany. It considers itself part of the political movement for democratic socialism. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has its origins in the association “Social Analysis and Political Education”, founded in Berlin in 1990. It became a provider of political education, a discussion forum for critical thinking and political alternatives, and a centre for progressive social thinking and research both in Germany and throughout the world.
Hanns Seidel Foundation – The Mission of the Hanns Seidel Foundation”In the service of democracy, peace and development” – this is the motto that the Hanns Seidel Foundation applies to its work and mission. The motto applies not only for its commitment in Germany, especially in Bavaria, of course, but also abroad.
Hans Böckler Foundation – The Hans Böckler Foundation deals with co-determination, research linked to the world of work and the support of students on behalf of the DGB, the Confederation of German Trade Unions.
Fulbright Commission – IIE Online provides detailed descriptions of the institute’s 250 grant programs, including the prestigious Fulbright Program. A vast resource for all higher-education students and administrators worldwide.
ERASMUS – Erasmus is the EU’s flagship education and training programme, enabling more than 180,000 students to study and work abroad each year, as well as supporting co-operation actions between higher education institutions across Europe. It caters not only for students, but also for professors and business staff who want to teach abroad and for university staff who want to be trained abroad.