At Carleton

  • German Department
  • Ways to integrate language-learning into your day-to-day life: Change your phone into German, put on German subtitles/audio whenever possible (many Netflix originals have this option), listen to German music and look up the lyrics (such as Cro and Namika).

German Materials at the Language Center

Reference

  • Cassell’s German-English Dictionary
  • Perspektiven: Texte Zur Kultur and Literatur
  • Perspektiven Laboratory Manual
  • Neue Horizonte 2nd Edition
  • Schau ins Land November 1990
  • Schau ins Land Dezember 1990
  • Schau ins Land Januar 1991
  • Schau ins Land Februar 1991
  • Schau ins Land Marz 1991
  • Schau ins Land Juni-Juli 1991
  • Schau ins Land August 1991
  • Schau ins Land September 1991
  • Schau ins Land Oktober 1991
  • German Berlitz, Oxford German Dictionary

Fairy Tales

  • Die drei Bären
  • Die Henne Trulla
  • Die drei listigen Geißböcke
  • Der Nußknacker
  • Die Stadtmaus und die Feldmaus
  • Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein

Web Resources

  • Reverso Conjugation – Conjugations.
  • German Irregular Verbs – Grammar, irregular verb guide.
  • Basic Chart – Article Chart.
  • Conjugemos – Conjugations.
  • Lingolia – Possesive Pronouns in German Grammar.
  • Linguee – English-German dictionary
  • LEO – Dictionary
  • Nominative, Accusative, and Dative: When to Use Them – Explanation of cases and examples.
  • German geography
  • Quia – a website for practicing grammar, vocabulary, and a host of other useful things. You can find practice quizzes and online practice exercises.
  • Duolingo – Free courses for people on the go. Memorize vocabulary, improve pronunciation and understand grammar. For beginners, intermediate and advanced levels. Uses fill in the blanks, typing, voice recording and images.
  • Memrise – Learn from beginners to advanced, improve pronunciation and conversation flow.
  • Babbel – For all levels, fun and easy. Takes you through questions of every day life and how to get around with the language. Uses pictures, multiple questions, sentence matching and others.
  • Loecsen – Method of rapid assimilation of the foreign languages that can be learnt over the internet or on other mobile devices. It is intended for people who want to manage in most situations of everyday life without having to go through a lengthy learning process.
  • 101 Languages – Includes links to different resources such as radio stations, vocabulary lessons and builder, keyboards, news, common words, translators, conjugators, flashcards, travel guides, pronunciation, phrases and vocabulary.
  • Goethe Verlag – Phrase book, vocabulary, download bilingual audios, download monolingual audios.  Includes 100 easy lessons (100 lessons are free). All dialogues and sentences are spoken by native speakers. No prior grammar knowledge is needed. You can start learning immediately. Improve your language skills for work, travel or as a hobby.
  • ie Languages – Learn basic phrases, vocabulary and grammar. Lists of vocabulary and verb conjugations are available. Some of the tutorials include audio files and interactive exercises and authentic visual examples of language use.
  • Games – German learning games. Numbers, phrases, colors, days, months, fruits, animals, vocabulary, food, verbs, clothes, times and nouns.
  • Live Lingua Project – Learning materials that contain courses, ebooks and audios.
  • My Languages – Site which focuses on grammar and vocabulary. Lessons, grammar tips, vocabulary, phrases, language tools, and audio files to download.
  • Surface Languages – Thousands of phrases and hours of audio spoken by native speakers along with flashcard, multiple choice and language learning games. Learn colors, numbers, basic phrases, food words, basic conversation phrases and build your vocabulary.Improve your fluency and confidence through learning many different sentences in your target language.
  • Master Any Language – Learn playing games, take tests, audios, alphabets, numbers, greetings, food, months, days, native speakers and links to resources such as music, foods, apps, books and movies.
  • Lingro – A free multilingual instant search dictionary and language learning web site. Paste in the URL of a newspaper and each word in the text becomes clickable and gives access to its dictionary.
  • Unilang – Free courses, podcasts, videos, phrasebooks, games and exercises.
  • Open Culture – Links to various language learning sites.
  • Forvo – Pronunciation examples.

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