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Best Free German Online Resources PDF
Best Free German Online Resources PDF
In the following pages, you will find details of books and links to a number of websites which you can
use to practise your grammar and vocabulary outside the classroom. We hope that you will find
these useful as a starting point. If you need further advice on language learning materials, please feel
free to ask your language tutor.
Grammar
Deutsch-lernen.com
http://www.deutsch-lernen.com/
Comprehensive coverage of German grammar, taking you through from beginner to
advanced level
Convenient bite-sized units, each focusing on one grammatical point
Exercises are available, so you can practise what you have learned
It is necessary to register for access to some materials
Written mostly in German
Deutsch Online
http://www.deutschonline.de/Grammatik/inhalt.htm
Detailed explanations
Written in German
German quickly
http://www.quia.com/cb/3736.html
Interactive one- and two-person quizzes to test your knowledge of difficult constructions
and phrases, time phrases, modal verbs, relative pronouns, idioms, and the passive.
Resources for German 2
Language comprehension
Deutsch Online
http://www.deutsch-online.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index
A selection of language tests and exercises
dict.cc
http://www.dict.cc
Comprehensive coverage, and new entries are added all the time by users
The VocabTrainer allows you to build up your own personalised vocabulary list
Resources for German 3
Redensarten-Index
http://www.redensarten-index.de/suche.php
Searchable database of Redensarten, Redewendungen, idiomatische Ausdrcke and feste
Wortverbindungen
Books
You will, of course, also want to use traditional printed material as part of your language
learning. You might therefore find the following books useful:
Dreyer, Hilke, and Richard Schmitt. 2009. Lehr- und bungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik.
Hueber.
Durrell, Martin. 2011. Hammers German Grammar and Usage (5th edition). Hodder.
Durrell, Martin. 2000. Using German Synonyms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Durrell, Martin, Katrin Kohl, and Gudrun Loftus. 2011. Practising German Grammar (3rd
edition). Hodder.
Hall, Karin, and Barbara Scheiner. 2011. bungsgrammatik Deutsch als Fremdsprache fr
Fortgeschrittene. Hueber.
Hachenburger, Petra, and Paul Jackson. 1999. Topics, Questions Keywords: A handbook for
students of German. London: Routledge.
Hering, Axel, Magdalena Matussek and Michaela Perlmann-Balme. 2002. EM
bungsgrammatik: Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Hueber.
Hirschfeld, Ursula, Kerstin Reinke, and Eberhard Stock. 2007. Phonothek intensiv:
Aussprachetraining. Langenscheidt.
Rug, Wolfgang, and Andreas Tomaszewski. 2008. Grammatik mit Sinn und Verstand. Klett.
Turneaure, Brigitte M. 1996. Der treffende Ausdruck.
Bilingual dictionaries
Monolingual dictionaries
Reading German newspapers, listening to the radio and watching television is a great way to
improve your language. You will obviously be able to find lots of magazines, newspapers, and radio
and television stations online by searching the internet or using a portal (e.g. yahoo.de), but here are
a few suggestions to get you started (And remember, you can also watch foreign language
television in the Open Learning Centre.)
Radio
Deutschlandfunk www.dradio.de
Funkhaus Europa www.funkhauseuropa.de
Inforadio Berlin (+ Bundesliga am Samstag) www.inforadio.de
Television channels