Recommended Online Resources
Language References
- Pons.de(opens in new window) (German <> English dictionary)
- Langenscheidt.de(opens in new window) (German <> English dictionary)
- Linguee(opens in new window) (German<>English dictionary)
- Duden.de(opens in new window) (German dictionary)
- Woxikon(opens in new window) (German thesaurus)
- DWDS.de(opens in new window) (German dictionary with etymology and thesaurus, also corpora)
- Wortschatz Uni Leipzig(opens in new window) (Collection of corpora)
- Canoo.net(opens in new window) (German grammar reference)
- Languagetool.org(opens in new window) (Grammar checking tool for German and other languages)
Learn German Online
- Germanzone.org(opens in new window) (An Online Workbook for German Learners)
- Easy German(opens in new window) (YouTube channel)
- Goethe Institut(opens in new window) (YouTube channel)
- Das Deutschlandlabor(opens in new window) (20 videos) & activities(opens in new window)
- Mein Weg nach Deutschland(opens in new window) (8 videos)
- Typisch!? Ein Büro in Deutschland(opens in new window) (12 videos)
- Goethe Institut(opens in new window) (Online pages and apps)
- Nico’s Weg(opens in new window) (Deutsche Welle)
- Learn German(opens in new window) – Top-Thema(opens in new window) & Video-Thema(opens in new window), Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten(opens in new window) and more (Deutsche Welle)
- Deutsch im Blick(opens in new window) (U of Texas)
- Deutsch perfekt(opens in new window) (Audio, text, and practice activities, organized by difficulty level)
- Mango Languages(opens in new window) (Meriam Library – sign in with your portal account)
Authentic sources and primary texts
- Tagesschau(opens in new window) (15-minute video overview of the day’s news)
- Deutsche Welle TV(opens in new window) (livestream)
- Zeitungen: Die Zeit(opens in new window), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung(opens in new window), Süddeutsche Zeitung(opens in new window)
- Zeitschriften: Der Spiegel(opens in new window), Focus(opens in new window), Stern(opens in new window)
- German language films and TV series(opens in new window) (Netflix)
- German language films and TV series(opens in new window) (Amazon Prime)
- Public TV broadcasters:
- National: German ARD(opens in new window), ZDF(opens in new window), Swiss SRF(opens in new window), Austrian ORF(opens in new window)
- Regional: RBB(opens in new window), NDR(opens in new window), MDR(opens in new window), HR(opens in new window), SWR(opens in new window), BR(opens in new window), SR(opens in new window), WDR(opens in new window)
- Regional public radio broadcasters:
- Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg(opens in new window) (rbb), Norddeutscher(opens in new window) Rundfunk(opens in new window) (NDR),
- Hessischer Rundfunk(opens in new window) (HR), Bayrischer(opens in new window) Rundfunk(opens in new window) (BR), Radio Bremen(opens in new window),
- Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk(opens in new window) (MDR), Saarländlischer (opens in new window)Rundfunk(opens in new window) (SR),
- Südwestrundfunk(opens in new window) (SWR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk(opens in new window) (WDR), Swiss broadcaster SRF 1(opens in new window), 6 different SRF radio stations(opens in new window), all Austrian public radio stations(opens in new window)
- Music videos(opens in new window) and songs(opens in new window) from current German music charts (Goethe Institut)
- Onleihe(opens in new window) - eLibrary of German books and magazines – sign up for a free account (Goethe Institut)
- Projekt Gutenberg.de(opens in new window) - Klassische Literatur Online (alphabetische Autorenliste(opens in new window)) (Spiegel Online)
- German Wikisource(opens in new window)
- German audio books(opens in new window) (vorleser.net)
Research
- Meriam Library OneSearch(opens in new window) and databases (sign in with portal account):
- Academic Search(opens in new window), JSTOR(opens in new window), Global Newsstream(opens in new window), Google Scholar(opens in new window),
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts(opens in new window) (LLBA), MLA International Bibliography(opens in new window),
- Melvyl(opens in new window) (online libraries of the UC system),
Oxford Journals(opens in new window), Oxford Grove Art Online(opens in new window), Oxford Grove Music Online(opens in new window), - Oxford Reference Premium Collection(opens in new window), Philosopher’s Index(opens in new window), Project Muse(opens in new window),
SAGE Journals(opens in new window), SocIndex(opens in new window), Springer Verlag(opens in new window) publications, Wiley Online Library(opens in new window) - German Language and Literature(opens in new window) (Yale University Library Guide)
- German Studies Web(opens in new window) (WessWeb, Association of College and Research Libraries)
- German on the Web(opens in new window) (University of Michigan)
- Online Resources for the Study of German History (Baylor U)
- German History in Documents and Images(opens in new window) (German Historical Institute)
- Lebendiges Museum Online(opens in new window) (Deutsches Historisches Museum)
- Das Bundesarchiv(opens in new window) (German Federal Archive)
- Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung(opens in new window) (Information about politics & international affairs)
- Statistisches Bundesamt(opens in new window)
- Tatsachen über Deutschland(opens in new window) (Auswärtiges Amt)