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The Goethe Institute offers a variety of culture and language resources. Here is the link to the location in Boston. http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/enindex.htm. Other locations are in Atlanta, Chicago, L.A., New York, San Fransisco and Washington.

Deutsche Welle is an international broadcasting network with radio, internet and TV presence. It offers German related news, language learning tools and more:

http://www.dw-world.de/

BBC Learn German Resources and Language Courses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/

The Mixxer – language exchange community

http://www.language-exchanges.org/

Ein Blog für Deutschlerner aus aller Welt

http://deutsch-lerner.blog.de

German TV online

http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3474442

http://beelinetv.com

http://www.voxnow.de/

http://rtl-now.rtl.de/

http://www1.ndr.de/mediathek/mediathekstarter100.html

German Radio

http://www.regenbogen.de/webradio.html

Free German Online Dictionary

http://dict.leo.org

German Grammar

http://www.germanlanguageguide.com

http://www.german-grammar.de/grammar/content/english_german_table_of_content.htm

German Verb Conjugation Tool

http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english.html

http://www.verbix.com/languages/german.shtml

http://www.deutschakademie.de/online-deutschkurs/english/

German Learning Games

http://www.digitaldialects.com/German.htm

For the Connoisseur of the German Language – dieser Blog ist nur auf deutsch

http://woerter.germanblogs.de



7 Comments

  1. Comment by Jakob:
    Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 6:28 AM | 

    This is an excellent link collection for DAF teachers and german learners! I am a German teacher in Torquay and actually I use almost all of these links listed above.
    There is one link you missed, if you don’t mind me saying. A lot of my students went to DeutschAkademie in Germany and Austria and came back with an excellent link to a free grammar trainer: http://www.deutschakademie.de/online-deutschkurs/english/

    there students can also press a “help” button when they got lost with the German grammar and a real teacher will support them with some help!
    how good is that?! ;)

  2. Comment by German Coach:
    Monday, April 19th 2010 at 10:12 AM | 

    Jakob,

    Vielen Dank. I’m happy that you like my resources. I’ll add the one missing link. I’ve also added some other, additional links. Check it out!

  3. Comment by Helen McPherson:
    Monday, July 9th 2012 at 7:57 PM | 

    Hi, I hope you may be able to give me a little assistance. My 6 year old son starts a new school in England, where they learn German daily and do some specific lessons entirely in German. They have been doing this for 2 years whereas my son has been learning Spanish!

    Although I speak German well and my husband’s vocab is good (his grammar and construction is terrible!) we haven’t been consistent with speaking auf Deutsch with our son. The school has given us no guide at all with how to prepare him. Other than speaking as often as we can in German, can you suggest any resources?

    Thanks in advance. Love this blog, I will return. Very interested in the Denglisch thing. The Germans I knew didn’t like it either and were at pains to teach me the German versions of words

  4. Comment by German Coach:
    Monday, July 9th 2012 at 9:12 PM | 

    Hello Helen,

    Thank you for leaving your comment. Learning a second or third language is great for young children. It develops their brain and also expands their horizon. My son is fully tri-lingual at this point. He speaks English since he hears it all day long here in the US, is fully fluent in German since I only speak German with him and is fluent in French. None of us speaks French at home but he goes to a French school.
    The challenge is provide enough support to keep the language active. Here are some things we do:
    - Find play-groups who speak that particular language. Here in the Boston area where we live, we have a bunch of German playgroups.
    - Buy DVDs in German with content your son likes, e.g. if he likes Superman then have him watch it in German.
    - Rent or buy German books with topics he is interested in and read them to him. Try to talk to him in German.
    - Speak as often as possible German to him, you have to be persistent
    Please do not worry too much because he is still young enough to catch up since he has been exposed to German before. My son’s French school has a program that helps children to catch up in the non-native language. I heard that other language schools provide that too. Be positive! This is going to be a great experience for him. Hope that this is helpful, Annett

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