Community Language Lab

Digital Dialects has loads of animated activities and games that are intended to provide a relaxed way of acquiring basic language skills, and a great break from the books!

Click on the links below to access the search results for German language resources in the library.

Language Study Sound Recordings: Language instruction CDs, tapes, and LPs.

Music: Traditional, classical, and folk CDs, tapes, and LPs.

Video Recordings: German language films and language instruction videos.

Readers: Practice your German with these simplified or notated texts.

Dictionaries: German to English and English to German,plus specialized lexicons.

Culture: Academic journals and texts on German culture.

FAZ.NET is a great online source for German, European, and International news. The website has just about every news category imaginable with easy navigation between different sections. The website also contains an online version of the Frankfurt based Rhein-Main Zeitung. The Rhein-Main Zeitung is only one of many different news sources based in Frankfurt - many others may be found on the Rhein-Main Media page. These sites will be useful to those who are nearly fluent in German, or are capable of understanding very advanced writing.

Fodor's Travel Guide has created an online phrasebook of useful expressions.  Click on a language and select the kinds of phrases you'd like to work on such as greetings or dining out.  Listen to sound files to perfect your pronunciation, and you'll know how to find a bathroom in no time.

Internet Polyglot is an online flashcard system which uses games and drills designed to help you retain vocabulary.  Build your own lessons, steal from other users, or use the ready-made sets.

Language Guide introduces language learners to vocabulary through sound, pictures, and writing so that every new term is reinforced visually and aurally. If you are just starting out or want to supplement the vocabulary in your textbook, the clustering of the vocabulary into categories like numbers or body parts makes it easy for you to find what you want to work on.

Visit Omniglot for information about the writing system for this language and many others, including designed languages like Klingon. Each page includes the full alphabet or syllabary for a particular language, plus a pronunciation guide in the International Phonetic Alphabet and transliterations of sample text into the Roman alphabet.

Flash animation of the phonetics of American English, German, and Spanish created at the University of Iowa.  Click on a language and hear all the sounds pronounced alone and within the context of words.  Features an animated anatomical drawing of the mouth, so you'll know exactly where to put your tongue to make those tricky sounds, and plays video of a native speaker using the sounds in context.

Multilingual Books in Seattle has a list of podcasts available for Chinese, French, German, and Spanish. Educational programming is available so you can take classes on your mp3 player, or you can listen to news, culture, technology, or entertainment-themed shows. Immerse yourself in language and culture to increase your comprehension and hear the language in real life speech.