- 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 weekly newsletter round-up of German news.
- Kuppelkucker is a fun guide to the German parliament (aimed at 10-14 year olds but good for grown up language learners too).
News and 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.
- ZDF is the German TV channel available via satellite in the Language Learning Centre - their programme schedules are online.
- Juma - a magazine for young people.
- moviepilot.de is one of the largest film websites in Germany: interact with a community of native speakers around a database of over 50,000 movies with associated criticism, local and internationals reviews, and daily news articles.
Learning resources
- Oxford Dictionaries - the University Library subscribes to the full, unabridged bilingual Oxford dictionaries in Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
- LEO - German<->English dictionary including audio pronunciations and declinations.
- dict.cc is a respected user-generated German-English translation dictionary.
- Phonetics: The Sounds of German - animated articulatory diagrams from the University of Iowa (requires Flash 7 or above).
- 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.
- GermanTeaching.com includes lots of German worksheets and exercises, courtesy of Katherine Munro.
- American Association of Teachers of German
- 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.
- About.com Guide to German Language - original articles and lots of links, plus discussion forum and chat room.
one of the largest film webpages in Germany and offers not only an opportunity to interact with native German speakers and practise the language, but also a database of over 50,000 titles, comprehensive nationwide cinema and television listings, a variety of daily news articles produced by the in-house editorial department and an active internet community of more than two million users. moviepilot compiles criticism, local, and international reviews on each film,