Online Resources for German Language Learners

Daniel Bosse — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:25:55 +0000

GermanHeit – From short grammar lessons, to recipes, to fun German media, this tumblelog should offer you a variety of ways to experience my language & culture. Whether you’re already learning German or just curious about foreign peoples, consider GermanHeit an alternative set of tools for language learning.
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.
FSI Language Courses – This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. Courses here are made available through the private efforts of individuals who are donating their time and resources to provide quality materials for language learning.

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Online Resources for German Language Learners