German Language Resources

McKinnon Secondary College

Resource collections for students (and teachers!)	Topics
Organisations for Teachers	Grammar - info and interactive exercises
Textbook links: »Genau!«, »Ganz Genau!«	Listening resources (senior students)
General vocabulary resources	Dictionaries
Entertainment sites	Other stuff
Short-term links	German after Year 12

	Resource collections for students/teachers (Image © Justin Trevena)
	How to type Umlauts and ß
Search Engines	Fireball Google Infoseeker.de - simultaneously searches multiple German sources and allows searches to be presented according to relevance or engine. MetaGer - German search engine that draws on many other search engines. Suchspion Vivisimo Yahoo
	German vocabulary exercises and practice from Robert Shea
	GermanLinx - Victorian site with info and resources for students and teachers.
	Beginners' intro to German (only accessible when you're using a computer at school)
	A cartoon (only accessible when you're at school)
	Languages Online (Department of Education, Victoria, Australia)
	Languages Online (Andrew Balaam, UK)
	Wikipedia: freie Online-Enzyklopädie auf Deutsch
	Was ist das?! - less typical photos from the German-speaking countries (@ GermanLinx)
	DeutschLern.net - reading (3 levels of difficulty, current themes/news), vocab, grammar. Free to use, login required.
	DaF-Seite - exercises and tests, reading, culture, games (Ralf Kinas)
	Kaleidoskop - great collection of info and tasks on different topics for learners of German as a second language, with an online Forum, where you can read contributions by other students, and post your own. * Read recent contributions and respond * Write a new contribution (on anything)
	Young-Germany.de - an initiative of Germany's Federal Foreign Office and its partners. Aim is to inform young people across the globe about their opportunities in Germany.
	Vocabulix.com - choose to use the Vocabulary Trainer or the Conjugation Trainer. The vocab trainer has preset exercises in topic areas such as Animals, Sports, and School.
	Fonetiks - getting used to the sounds of German? Visit Fonetiks, scroll down their page to "German", and hear different vowel and consonant sounds in sample words.
	German Index at Easton Language Education
	The Mining Company - lots of German language links under various headings.
	Kickapoo High School’s massive collection of links
	Jugendsprache: teenager slang! Warmduscher-ABC : slang names for different sorts of wimps and wusses. Task: find names in the site to use for certain types of music fans, fitness freaks, workaholics, over-fussy/pedantic people, continual worriers (etc.)
	From the latest print edition of STERN comes a description of a selected current feature, often the cover feature. The left-hand side of its page has links to various magazine departments, including: Auto, Deutschland, Kultur, Sport, and Wirtschaft (Business). Also, The non-print STERN Online site.
	Sowieso - magazine for teenagers (look at articles in the "A-Z archive")
	"Jetzt on-line" - articles with learning exercises, incorporating links to explanations and a dictionary.
	The spelling reform: alphabetical list of old and new spellings. Also, info on different issues connected with the spelling reform.
	* CIA World Fact Book (might not be up-to-date) Germany \| Austria \| Switzerland \| Liechtenstein \| * Questions and Answers about Germany (German Information Center) * Austria Info
	German Saturday School in Melbourne. Info, activities and links.
	Deutsche Kinderseiten (collection of pages for children)
	Digitale Postkarten - Choose an image, add a background & accompanying music, in German too!
	Podcasts by students
	»Feuerwerk« textbook links
	...Don't sit at your computer late at night, or your mummy will come in and say "Ab ins Bett!"

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