Language Links

German

German Language Links

• GermanForTravellers - Free lessons and online courses with more than 1000 audio files.
• The Awful German Language - By Mark Twain. A satirical explanation of the difficulty of the language.
• BBC: Languages: German - Includes courses, phrases, and travel information.
• The Evolution of Early German - German 471 - Links and information about the origins and history of the language.
• Exeter University Beginners' German - A beginners' course in German from the German Department of Exeter University. Twenty lessons with exercises along with other resources.
• Gene Moutoux's Home Page - Fairy tales and letters (correspondence) for intermediate students, as well as a course for beginners.
• German Language - Language-learning tips and lessons and a library of links to resources on the Web.
• German Speech Errors - A list of several hundred common German speech errors with English glosses.
• German Words and Phrases - Basic words and phases for studying German.
• Internet Resources for Germanists - Research tools, organizations, calendar of events and academic journals.
• Intonation in German - A paper on pronunciation, including information on dialectal variations.
• Learn German Links - Resources for students to learn German online. The focus is on free content, German textbooks and software.
• Learn to Speak German Online - e Language School - Learn German with free online lessons about grammar and vocabulary.
• Learning German Experience - Advice and links on learning German. Also includes a series of basic lessons.
• Pravapis/German - Games and quizzes for enhancing vocabulary and learning grammar, as well as an assortment of relevant articles, tables, and links.
• Web German - A center for learning with the Internet. Interactive exercises, audio files, literature, games, comics, news, fiction and other useful resources to help you learn online.

German Dictionary and Translation Links

• LEO English-German Dictionary - Allows two-way searches for over 400,000 words and phrases. Several options available.
• The Alternative German Dictionary - A glossary of slang and obscenities.
• Babylonia Computer Science Dictionary - Large glossary of computer terms for translation from English.
• Beilstein Dictionary - Two-way glossary of organic chemistry terminology.
• Beolingus - Two-way German-English dictionary with about 340,000 entries and several search options. From the Chemnitz University of Technology.
• Canoo.net German Dictionaries - Meta-search of several dictionaries and a linguistic glossary. Allows lookup of keywords, linguistic terms, and affixes, and compound words.
• Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon - Categorized, searchable glossary featuring images.
• Dict.cc - Two-way lookup with over 350,000 keywords. User contributions are encouraged.
• English-German Dictionary - Online lookup.
• English-German Dictionary of Common Computing Terms - Specialized, one-way word list.
• English-German Idiom Dictionary - Searchable, alphabetized glossary of over 4400 phrases.
• Excavation Dictionary - Specialized two-way dictionary for archaeologists. Browsable by first letter only.
• Foreign Language Master - Includes online Java and HTML versions as well as Windows and Amiga versions for download.
• FreeDic - Birectional German-English dictionary with about 300,000 terms covering the most common vocabulary. From publisher Sprachendienst. Requires JavaScript.
• German-English Music Dictionary - Glossary with over 2000 entries.
• How to Swear in German - Glossary of insults and swear words with English translations and sound files.
• Library Glossary - Contains approximately 90,000 technical terms and abbreviations about libraries, books, and data processing.
• LinguaDict - Allows two-way searches of over 512,000 entries. Includes several search options.
• The New English-German Dictionary - Includes more than 200,000 translations, lists of strong verbs and abbreviations, and a Windows version for download.
• QuickDic - Two-way word translator with several options. Windows version available for download.
• Transgem - Technical online lookup which uses translated texts to provide corresponding meanings for words and phrases. Requires JavaScript.

Do you know of a good German link that should be on this page? If so, let me know about it! I will add any links that are relevant to learning German. I am also open to link exchanges as long as the site pertains to the German language.