• Google.de and Yahoo! Deutschland are German versions of the popular search engine and web directory.
• German Government - facts, figures and useful links from the Government Press Office. Or try the German Information Center from the German Embassy in the US, which also has a magazine, the Week in Germany.
• Kuppelkucker is a fun guide to the German parliament (aimed at 10-14 year olds but good for grown up language learners too).

News & media on-line

• Deutsche Welle Radio & TV have an extensive site; aside from the expected news and schedules, they have a daily audio Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten (Slowly-spoken News) with transcript, and Wort der Woche.
  
• Die Welt - online version of the big daily.
• Der Spiegel - selected articles from the political magazine.
• Stern - "Germany's largest illustrated weekly"
• Wiener Zeitung is an Austrian newspaper.
• GermNews gives a concise summary of the day's news (also available in English), with an archive going back more than a decade and even a glossary.
• ZDF is the German TV channel available via satellite in the Language Learning Centre - their programme schedules are on-line.
• Juma - a magazine for young people.

Teaching resources

• LEO - German<->English dictionary including audio pronunciations and declinations.
• Phonetics: The Sounds of German - animated articulatory diagrams from the University of Iowa (requires Flash 7 or above).
• German for Travellers, a good beginners course online - text/picture/audio/video exercises, grammar, exams and quality links elsewhere.
• Literaturwelt - a jumping-off point for German literature on the Internet.
• The Goethe-Institut is an official organisation which represents and promotes German culture and language world-wide. Their website includes a lot of teaching material.
• Katherine Munro's Language Teaching Resources includes lots of German worksheets and exercises.
• American Association of Teachers of German
• K-12 German Teacher is an online community for German teachers.
• LinguaDict is a bilingual English<->German dictionary containing over 2 million words with many example phrases and idioms.
• Internet Handbook of German Grammar.
• Institut für deutsche Sprache includes a section on Rechtschreibreform, but the latest can be found at Kommission für deutsche Rechtschreibung.

Sources for further research...

• GFL Journal - an Internet journal for all Germanists, on teaching and learning German in an intercultural context.
• German History in Documents and Images - an impressive collection, including a good selection of maps relating to East & West Germany. From the German Historical Institute, Washington DC.
• Dr Andreas Lixl-Purcell's German WWW Trails commencing at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
• About.com Guide to German Language - original articles and lots of links, plus discussion forum and chat room.
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: German Subject Catalogue: Germanic languages