Online German Resources from Dartmouth College

A good place to look for German language (and cultural) resources are the websites of German departments at colleges and universities. (Also, check the German department website of a local university: some departments host events that are open to the public or have information about other local events.)

The Department of German Studies at Dartmouth College has several helpful online language learning resources. The department homepage is at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~german/.

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First of all, the Department has a detailed article on why one should learn German; this article can be found here: Why Study German?

The department website also offers A Review of German Grammar, written by one of the college's professors, Bruce Duncan. This is a pretty descriptive survey of the basics of German grammar, and includes a lot of examples and pictures. It could be good for someone learning German grammar, or for someone who just needs to brush up.

In addition, the college's Arts and Humanities Resource Center (AHRC) provides a service called Annotext™ for some German texts. The service provides you a text, and as you are reading the text, you can click on a word or phrase and a translation will instantly appear in the box at the top of the screen. This is really useful for building up vocabulary, while also getting to read some classic German literature. The list of available texts is here: Annotext - German, and further instructions for using Annotext are here: Annotext. (Note: the instructions say that Annotext doesn't work in Internet Explorer; however, it worked when I tried it with Internet Explorer, so it might just be older versions that don't support it.)

The Dartmouth library also jointly supports - along with Brigham Young University and Keene State College - the German Studies Web (a project of the Association of College and Research Libraries). The site provides lists of links to German sources, German reference materials (like dictionaries), and also links to academic sites if you are doing research. Find it here: German Studies Web.

The German department also provides a download for doing German exercises, called Lexinomicon. The site says that the exercises are meant to accompany the 5th edition of the Na klar! textbook (by Di Donato, Clyde, & Vansant), but the download is open to anyone, and it seems like you don't need the book for doing the exercises. The download and instructions can be found here: Lexinomicon.

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