Sites for German

Colonel Craig's WWW Links for German
This site first designed by Curt W. Nickisch

I'm
proud that this site has received recognition for promoting German on the
internet. These World Wide Web sites will get you started to virtually
anywhere in the German-speaking world - language, business, travel,
politics, culture and more. Contents are below, and headings are general.
1999 was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe - next to Shakespeare, the most important writer in Western
Literature, I'd say. Here are some Goethe-Sites:
Here's a table of contents. Click on a box (that's best), because I've
put some items on separate pages - so things load more quickly for you.
Und nun, gutes Stöbern!
Language and Literature
- A lexicon of rhyme
- Learn Germany in Tyrol
- A site for Theodor Storm (one
of my all-time favorite authors
- The author
(and army officer) Ernst Juenger
- Exercises for
Learning German
- Learn German in Vienna
- Materials for German as a
Foreign Language
- Commentated
Bibliography for Deutsch als Frendsprache
- Learn German in Munich
- German and Indonesian
Teaching Resources
- German
proverbs, sayings, and more
- Leselupe
- A German/Austrian glossary
- Erich Kästner
- New
German Spelling Rules, the Rechtschreibreformen
- Writing Correctly
-
Online German Dictionaries
- "Weanerisch" as a World Language Well ... German as spoken in Vienna
- A "Language Purity" site ... grin
and bear it!
- Die Deutsche Bibliothek
- Mark Twain actually spoke pretty fair German, and knew enough
to make fun of it, too! Here you can read an excerpt from Twain's The Awful German
Language. Or read that whole text, as well as a couple more of Twain's jibes at
German. (Students of German will love these!)
- Projekt Gutenberg (Electronic Book Archives).
- German Literary History
- Crossword, word searches, & more
- German Fonts and Handwriting
- Poets and their poetry
- Schiller Archives (in Marbach/Neckar).
- Institut für deutsche Sprache (in Mannheim).
- German stories from the 19th century.
-
Medieval German Poetry - some of my all-time favorite poems!
- Many, many
resources and links for Germanists from
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, (where I studied!)
- A collection of Karl May.
- IDV (International Ass'n of German Teachers).
-
Links for Germanistik.
- German Studies Ass'n
- AATG (American Association of Teachers of
German).
- SELECTA, journal of the
Pacific Northwest Council For Languages.
- Schatzkammer, journal of German Language, Literature and Culture.
- Monatshefte
fuer deutschen Unterricht, deutsche Sprache und Literatur.
-
Dimension, with plenty of material for Germanists.
-
Zeitschrift für interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht
- Robert-Musil-Literatur-Museum
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Learning the German
Language
Ach! The internet is not a great place for language learning if
you're doing that alone. But if that's your only option at the moment,
here are some sites that may help - and some "residence" programs, too:
And here are WWW language-learning exercises folks have written:
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Music
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Books, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
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Schools &
Universities
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Tours, Cuisine and Travel
Ach! Nicht zu vergessen:
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Links from Other Sites
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Allerlei
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Click on the scroll for other neat
stuff, including ideas for teaching (even using the WWW) and links
for French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.
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suggestions, or other URLs to include.
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