Dictionaries and Thesauri

German English Dictionary TU Chemnitz:
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de
Excellent German-English, English German dictionary on line and offline with about 140.000 entries including Pronunciation help, English explanations and synonyms as well as English and German proverbs, aphorisms, and quotations

LEO-Online Dictionary TU Munich
http://dict.leo.org/?lang=de
With more than 350.000 bi-directional entries one of the biggest online dictionaries with many search options and grammar, pronunciation, and 'phrase' support. Every word inquiry brings up 1. direct translation, phrases, and examples! Very useful!

WORTSCHATZ Uni Leipzig
http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de
Access to more than 15 million German words and how they are used, with word associations, lots of examples and dated quotes from a variety of sources; also includes graphic designs to show a word's cross-references

German Morphology Browser and Grammar Support
http://services.canoo.com/index.html
Provided by 'Canoo Products' this website brings up dictionary entries, linguistic terms, new orthograohy rules, inflection rules, word formation rules for anything from prefixes, suffixes and unknown words such as 'Alpendurchquerungstunnel'

German Studies Web Reference Shelf
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wess/
wessref.html
Great collection of German dictionaries, handbooks, e-mail directories, phone books, zip-codes, city giudes, trains chedules, maps and much more.

WIKIPEDIA
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite
The free-content encyclopedia in over 100 languages that anyone can edit with
over 50,000 articles

CDs, Videos and Books

For a list of CDs, DVDs, videos, etc. available in the CFLC search our online database:
http://inside.bard.edu/blrc/database/

Media store through Süddeutsche Zeitung
http://sz-shop.sueddeutsche.de/mediathek/shop/suzai0001_home.jsp Movies and music for very little money

Film

German Cinema on DVD and Video
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/german
filmresources.html
Excellent collection of links and bibliographies, U.S. and German Film Vendors, US Films on DVD with German Audio Tracks, German/German Director Films available in the USA on DVD, and more

Cinemabilia.de
http://www.cinemabilia.de/
Everything from movies to videos and film; search by German or English Videos, DVDs or Order #, links to DVD-Supermarket and other sources

Schoenberg Archives
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/
schoenberg/
Explore the Archives to find Voice Recordings, Videos, Satellite Collections , Photos, and more of and about Arnold Schoenberg

Head-Film AG Zürich
http://www.headfilm.ch/index.html
Swiss Company that rents and sells films and movies to educational institutions.

German Studies Web: Theater, Film & Performing Arts
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wess/wessthea.html
Excellent Collection of links to online traders, libraries, archives and museums concerning film and performing arts.

FACETS
http://www.facets.org
The single best source for international cinema on video and DVD. The FACETS catalog includes both feature films and documentary works.

IceStorm International (The DEFA Film Library Cinema of East Germany)
http://www.icestorm-video.com
DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), the state-owned studio of the former German Democratic Republic, produced over 750 feature films and countless documentaries and shorts, as well as numerous children's films, between 1946 and 1992. DEFA makes up a significant segment of German film history, as the former UFA studios of Babelsberg aspired to the status of a national cinema in their own right.

Kino International
http://www.kino.com
A small but important collection of international cinema, including seminal works of Weimar film. Excellent print reproductions; many restored versions. Kino titles are also available through most of general video distributors.

Music

Landesmediendiesnte Bayern e.V.
http://www.landesmediendienste-bayern.de/
Cds, Videos and Audiocassettes for educational institutions

Audiobuch
http://www.audiobuch-versand.de/
Books (CDs) on tape; search by subject; click here to hear some samples http://audiobuch.com/
(RealPLayer G2 needed) http://www.real.com/player/
index.html?lang=de&src=choice_1&hts=yes

Duophon Musikverlag
http://www.pro-web.de/index_projekte_news.php
Search by composer or interpreter, listen to samples; company holds a lot of historical recordings (Berliner Musenkinder)

Archiphon
http://www.archiphon.de/
Historical recordings from the archives; search by composers, interpreters

Books

German Language Books/Bücher
http://german.about.com/library/
blbook01.htm
A Directory of Online and Other
Sources of Books in German: you'll find local and mail-order bookstores in the US and
Canada that carry German-language titles. If you can't find a store near you, most of the booksellers listed below will take mail, email or telephone orders, or you can use their Web site if they have one.

International Book Import Service (IBIS)
http://www.ibiservice.com/
IBIS provides bookstores, libraries, schools, and individuals in the Americas with a good service in German books. They provide any title published in Germany either from their inventory or by special order.

German Studies Web: Book Trade, Publishers
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wess/
wessbook.html
Great collection of Books in Print, WebSites of Publishers, Vendors and Book Stores, Individual Bookstores and Antiquarian Books.

Zweitausendundeins Verlag
http://www.zweitausendeins.de
This bookstore carries almost everything in terms of books, CDs and Videos for a great price.

 

Language Learning

Biggest Online German Grammar Course
http://www.deutschakademie.de/
German Academy offes over 20,000 grammar exercises. Offers program for students and teachers custom make and print German tests. Evaluates for all levels and gives statistical feedback.

Interactive German Reading and Comprehension Exercises and Grammar Review
http://www.deutschlern.net/
Interactive German Excercises on line for beginners and intermediate and advanced German students, tutors and DaF teachers - FREE. GREAT website with lots of audio-visual material to teach and study based on up-to-date information and literary texts.

WORD CHAMP! LISTEN, W& STUDY VOCABULARY! http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua/
MainMenu.do
This amazing multi-media program helps students of all ages learn foreign languages. WordChamp™,uses audio, flashcards, and website annotation to help students learn foreign language vocabulary more effectively than traditional methods. it includes translation, Audio translation, Dictation, Translating Aloud, Reading Practice, and Pronunciation Drills. Word Champ flashcards work in Arabic, English, German, Hebrew, Italian,Korean, French, Spanish and Japanese (no audio yet for Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Korean as of 02/05) with more languages in the works. You must become a member to have access to some exercises and a premium member for audio access.Please contact Stephanie Kufner for a Bard premium membership.

STUDY VOPCABULARY WITH YOUR OWN LISTS
http://youknowthedrill.com
Choose the language you are interested in, and the site begins asking you to translate words. If you get words wrong, it will repeat those words, in order to reinforce the correct translation. The site keeps track of which words you have mastered and which you are working on, so you can go away and come back and take up where you left off. If you don't like the huge standard database of foreign language vocabulary we offer, you can create your own lists of words to drill and practice. FREE - SIGN UP requested

German Grammar - Review and Exercises
http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/german/grammar/grammar.htm Wonderful site to review the most common German grammar
problems with numerous exercises that are set up with mail-in forms which should be reviewed  by someone who will be able to give professional feedback when and where appropriate- FREE

Create exercises, quizzes tests
http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more.

 

 

Culture

Goethe Institute: Culture and Society
http://www.goethe.de/kug/deindex.htm
Information/resources on the Arts, Society, Education, Technology, Science, Media and Information.

Literature

German Studies Web: Literature Resources
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wess/
wesslit.html
Great Collection of 'Literary Homepages' , Electronic Journals and Online Text Collections in German Literature

Deutsche Literatur im Internet
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/
etexts.html#german/
German Literature on the Internet: Text Collections (searchable databases from the Gutenberg Project, Dada Online to the Kassandra project), Spoken Texts, Literary Magazines and Websites about German Authors

Nietzsche im Netz
http://www.psychotherapie.org/wm/nietzsch.htm
Great links to texts by and comments on Nietzsche

ATHENA e-texts
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/
athome.html
Nearly 10, 000 links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. Multilingual.. Several Search programs on author, title, language, words.

GERMAN POETRY
http://lrc-web.modlang.ohiou.edu/lrc/poetry/
This website features soundfiles, authors' biographies, guiding questions as well as activities and other materials which we hope will help engage students in meaningful and personalized communication, while at the same time encouraging their appreciation of the German language and culture. Our project was developed at Ohio University and is designed to provide teachers of German with free access to selected German poems, authors, and other ancillary materials.

ATHENA Literature Resources
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/
booksite.html
Find literary resources online in and for a certain language

Beaucoup! Literary Resources
http://www.beaucoup.com/3refeng.html
Search by subject (biography, poetry, etc.) or collections (Shakespeare, Eliot etc.)

UPenn-Literature online
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Search Books, Features, Archives online by author, title, subject, foreign Languages and more - amazing, free site!

Berlin Online-Literature Café
http://www.BerlinOnline.de/kultur/lesen/belle/
.html/titel.html
Great resource to find book-reviews in German on over 400 books presently on the literary market, sorted alphabetically and by title

German reading online
http://eleaston.com/german.html

Gutenberg Project online texts
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de
Online texts sorted by author or genre from fables to erotica

LiTGloss
http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts/shtml
The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English. The texts are of literary, cultural, or historical interest to speakers of English, and likely (we think) to be better appreciated if read in the original language. Our goal is to make them accessible by providing semantic and syntactical help, and to provide supplementary materials which help the students see the text in its literary, artistic, historical, cultural context. German texts available by Kafka, Goethe and Heine amongst others.

Children's Books
http://www.icdlbooks.org/
This site is my favorite of the five, The International Children's Digital Library. It has online children’s books that are fully readable with pictures. The web site has many books completely in Arabic among many other languages such as Farsi, French, Japanese, Croatian, German, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish and many more to choose from. All you need to do is to click on the button that says “Simple Search”, and then choose the language.

Bibliomanische Zitate
http://ezines.onb.ac.at:8080/ejournal/pub/ejour-97-II/forum/kolbeck/rechts.htm
Read up on what others have said abut reading, writing, literature, and more, in German

Poetry

http://www.lyrik.ch/
Lyrikonline in detuscher Sprache

http://www.onlinekunst.de/gedichte/
Over 450 poems and pictures of well known and lesser known authors

Bibliography and Citation

Bibliography Organizer
http://www.noodletools.com/logout.php

General Research and Documentation
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/

MLA Bibliography
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/mla.html

MLA Citation Examples
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/ mlahcc.html

MLA Style Electronic Formats
http://www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.html

Resources and Quizmakers

The Realia Project
http://realiaproject.org/
Rich electronic archive for language instruction anywhere: publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures.

Moodle
http://moodle.org
A free open-source course-management system to help teachers create online communities

Create your own online vocabulary lists, flashcards, class websites + quizzes!
http://www.quia.com
Create activites (word lists, flashcards, matching games etc.), class websites, and amazing online quizzes (including multiple choice, pop-up, fill-in, short answer and essay questions with easy links to ANY online source), create class rosters and have easy access to tests, students' scores, time spent on tests etc. ; licence fee required for instructors (not for students)
Bard has licences for 10 instructors; for information contact kufner@bard.edu

Software for Learning
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/teaching.htm
Downloadable programs for use in the classroom or at home . Interesting: Markin a program which replaces the traditional teacher's red pen with a complete on-screen marking environment, is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments.

Resources for teaching and learning German
http://www.goethe.de/dll/enindex.htm

http://www.goethe.de/gr/dub/schule/dearbb.htm

Create exercises, quizzes tests
http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more.

PICS Tips and Treats - great for Tutors!
http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/tips.html
Guidelines to work with video in language teaching

Multiple choice tests on line
http://www.interactivetest.com/
Create your own multiple choice test and use it on your web page. It is really easy: just type your questions and answers, and then add a link to your test at our test engine. Forget about CGI and Javascript - use our easy web-interface. You can even add pictures to your tests! And it is free!

Deutsch üben im Internet
http://www.colby.edu/german/
deutsch_ueben/
"Deutsch üben im Internet" offers guided interaction with authentic German web-sites for intermediate and beginning students of German. Language Teaching Software from Nas Educational Software Inc. M World Language Resources - Fore

Transparencies online!
http://college.hmco.com/languages/german/
resources/trans.htm
Transparencies that can be used in classes. Very helpful for the tutors. Examples of such would be classroom, telling time, weather, family etc

1000 tests online!
http://www.1000tests.com
Take funky tests in German on personality, love, politics AND LANGUAGES (German, English, French, Spanish etc.)

Placement Tests