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German Links

Library shelfmark: GE

LASR Courses in German
OPAL Courses in German

See also Old German and Gothic

Oxford University German Society on Facebook

The library's Delicious page offers you also a section of multimedia language links and the Netvibes page offers you the latest news. There are also extended e-resources available at Oxford.

External links

Below are the links to the external websites. Language Centre takes no responsibility for the content of these websites.

Resources

Useful Links / Searching on the Web / Language Resources / Blogs / Media / Universities

Subjects

Business / Culture / Environment / Politics / Science / Study Links / Theology / Literature

Useful Links

• German at Oxford
• WebLearn - a virtual learning environment website offering study materials and excercises created by Language Centre tutors
• Bibliothekskataloge (Deutschland)
• Deutsche Welle
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog Book search engine for all main universities in German speaking countries
• OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford since 1999-2000. Please note: access is limited to those in the Oxford domain. The listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are in the library with audio cassettes available for the listening comprehension examination
• Warwick University Web Resources
• Germanabout.com - resources

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Searching on the Web

• List of German search engines from Phil Bradley
• Dino-online
• Yahoo
• web.de

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Language Resources

• General
  • BBC languages page where you can also find transcripts of programmes such as Deutsche Plus!
  • Deutsch lernen free online lessons for beginner and advanced levels
  • Deutsch lern.net learning material from beginner to advanced level
  • Deutsch üben im Internet 'Guided interaction with authentic German web-sites for intermediate and beginning students of German' from John Lyon at Colby College
  • Dialects
    • Dialektatlas
    • Genealogienetz
    • Sweizerdeutsch
    • Voralbergerish quizz
  • EM Neu Brückenkurs, Hauptkurs and Abschlusskurs. The textbooks are in the library.
  • Goethe Institut German courses (in England and Germany) and learning material. It includes a section on activities in the Goethe Institut London
  • IIK : Institut für Internationale Kommunikation in Zusammenarbeit mit der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • K. F. Hilliard's Page Dr. Hilliard is a University Lecturer in German
  • Lernforum Deutsch
  • Rechtschreibreform Institut für Deutsche Sprache Detailed and comprehensive information about all aspects of orthographic reform
  • Themen Aktuell homepage
• Dictionaries
  • Online dictionaries for all languages
  • Oxford-Duden Concise Dictionary
  • Germanic Lexicon project An online collection of lexicons of the early Germanic languages. “The grammars, dictionaries, glossaries and readers…cover the following languages: Gothic; Anglo-Saxon; Old and Middle High German; Old Saxon, Old Frisian; and Old Norse. Resources for the linguistic study of Latin, Old Irish and Tocharian are also available.” (HUMBUL)
• Listening
  • University of Waterloo Listening comprehension exercises, keyed to various textbooks, but useful as a stand alone exercises.
• Pronunciation
  • Exeter University pronunciation guide
• Reading
  • Germanabout - Reading links
  • Going the distance: Reading Teaching module for students and tutors of German
• Vocabulary
  • Ausgewanderte Wörter - Memo-spiel Vocabulary testing game
  • German for music lovers
  • Goethe-Tests

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Blogs

• Frankfurter Allgemeine

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Media

Please note: the news is recorded daily and is available for viewing in the library.

If you can't find the media you want in the language you want, try our multilingual page

• Music
  • The Library blog has a selection of German music in its delicious pages.
• Print & Online
  • APA - Austria Press Agentur
  • The European an online magazine which is also available from Facebook and Twitter
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine
  • Online Focus ... das digitale und interaktive Nachrichtenmagazin auf dem Internet.
  • Der Standard (Wien)
  • Der Stern
  • Die Welt die große deutsche Tageszeitung im World Wide Web
  • Die Zeit
• Radio
  • German news spoken slowly with transcripts
  • Deutsche Welle
• TV
  • RTL 2
  • SAT 1
  • WDR
  • ZDF
  • Das Internet-Magazin von TV Movie
  • German tv programme listings
  • Tagesschau The main German evening news programme

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Universities

• Universität Augsburg
• Universität Bayreuth
• Freie Universität Berlin
• Universität Bremen
• Universität Frankfurt
• Universität Göttingen
• Technische Universität Graz
• Universität Halle
• Universität Hamburg
• Universität Heidelberg
• Universität Kaiserslautern
• Universität Karlsruhe
• Universität Konstanz
• Universität Leipzig
• Universität Marburg
• Universität München
• Universität Oldenburg
• Universität Paderborn
• Universität Passau
• Universität Potsdam
• Universität Saarbrücken
• Universität Tübingen

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Business

• AUMA trade fairs
• Monetos multilingual research and information portal, offering independent instruction and advice on Europe's social and private financial sectors

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Culture

• Deutsches Historiches Museum
• Freiburg anthology: lyric and song Text for traditional German songs and lyric poems
• Galerien Online Art
• Tatsachen über Deutschland Facts about Germany. Contains a lot of up to date information for many topics.
• Volksliederarchiv German language folk song archive

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Environment

• Oekotest

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Politics

• BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
• Social Democratic Party

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Science

• Spektrum

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Study Link

• GCSE Bitesize revision Including French and German.

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Theology

• Project Wittenberg
• Luther Project

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Literature

• Deutsche Gedichte Archive of German poetry

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