Modern Languages - German

Benutzen Sie das Internet,
um Informationen über die deutschsprachigen Länder zu lesen!
Viele Städte haben URLs wie
"www.namederstadt.de" (Deutschland), zB www.berlin.de
"www.namederstadt.at" (Österreich), zB www.vienna.at
"www.namederstadt.ch" (die Schweiz), zB www.bern.ch

Viele Bundesländer haben die auch.

Viel Spaß!

f o r   l a n g u a g e   l e a r n e r s :

• German crossword puzzles

• Dynamic HTML games (must have Explorer or Netscape version 4 or above)

• German Hangman (Galgenraten) version

• Language-building games, crosswords, texts from Interdeutsch

• University of Kent's Grammar Exercises

• Goethe Institute

o n l i n e   d i c t i o n a r i e s :

• LEO German/English; English/German dictionary

l i t e r a t u r e :

• German Stories

• Brüder Grimm - Märchen und Sagen

• Projekt Gutenberg - fables, legends, e-texts from Germany and other lands

• Online Books Page - this bookmark links to e-texts of German literature; includes works by Goethe and Schiller.  This site is a comprehensive source of e-texts (most texts in English) so check out their homepage

• The Nibelungenlied (in English)

m u s e u m s   a n d   c u l t u r a l   s i t e s :

• Prince Eugene's Winterpalais (Vienna) - tour the Palace in English, German, or French

• Museums of Belvedere (Vienna)

• Bamberger Dom (Germany) - Domrundgang for a virtual tour of the cathedral; the site also has a section which narrates the tales and legends of Bamberg; also a section on its windows.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

h i s t o r y :   

• AEIOU - an online "encyclopedia" of Austrian people, places, and more (in German and English)

• Royal Dynasties - confused by who ruled when and was married to or begat whom? check out these geneology charts of the main ruling dynasties of Europe

• Rulers - listings for the entire world, includes today's heads of state and centuries-ago empires

a r t    a n d   a r c h i t e c t u r e :

• Fachwerkhaus - articles and photographs pertaining to the German half-timbered style of building

• Bildarchiv Monheim - historic and modern architecture; arranged by style, period or country

• Bildarchiv für Kunst und Architektur in Deutschland - a massive site of more than a million archival black-and-white photographs

• World Art Treasures - a vast site centering on art and architecture; check out individual artists, or choose a geographic region; from the JACQUES-EDOUARD BERGER FOUNDATION (in French and English)

t o u r i s t   i n f o r m a t i o n :

• Deutsche Bahn

• Österreichische Bundesbahn

• Schweizerische Bundesbahnen

• general maps - Germany, Austria, Switzerland

• German for Travellers

m e d i a :

• German media links

• Audiradio

 

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