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GermanPod101: Learn German Quickly Online and Mobile with Audio-Video Lessons, Apps & Fun Exercises

Proven Course Teaches German Quickly with Audio, Video and Mobile Apps

Beginner and advanced levels alike will enjoy GermanPod101, an excellent online and mobile way to learn German quickly.

GermanPod101's fun method and modern platform immerse you in the German language, giving you just what you need to achieve your goals for travel, business, family and other needs.

GermanPod101 is web and mobile based, giving you a custom German Learning Center anywhere. Download podcasts on your iPhone, Android, iPod Touch, iPod or any mp3 player and take them with you for practice and learning on the go.

High-Quality Content for Learning German

A key aspect to learning a language is quality content. GermanPod101 creates a steady flow of fresh content covering everything from cultural aspects of German to tidbits about navigating in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Namibia), plus practical information to help you get by.

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Engage in a combination of audio and video lessons, lesson notes and checklists, transcripts, PDFs, vocabulary training with flashcards and quizzes plus a German dictionary, grammar bank, a verb reference, social network and plenty more.

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german.about.com German Learning+Teaching Resources, Verb Conjugator, Audio Listening Lab, Grammar, Geneology, Culture, Lessons

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german.about.com is packed full of information for beginner to intermediate German learners as well as teachers of those levels. In fact, there is so much content there that listing it here would take too much time! Instead, this article will highlight some of the things you can find on the site, and leave the rest for you to find on the site.

Of special note are the start learning section, practice materials, teacher resources, audio lab, grammar section, travel section, vocabulary section, culture section, thesaurus, games/exercises and verb conjugator.

There is a lot more there, and it's all accessible for free. :)

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Our German Language Lab offers audio for beginners or more advanced learners of German. Using the audio categories listed below, you can learn how to pronounce German correctly. By listening carefully to the sound in our German Language Lab, you'll have a model to imitate. Some language learners find it easier than others to get just the right sounds of German, but with a little effort you can do it! If you want to sound like a German, remember the German saying: Übung macht den Meister. (Practice makes perfect.)

Use the German Word of the Day (Wort des Tages) to expand your German vocabulary. Below you'll find two versions, one for beginners and another for intermediate or advanced learners.

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Posted Tue, 2008-09-16 10:06

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CaféBabel.com Café Babel Local European News Magazine in German and 6 Other Languages

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Café Babel is a multilingual European political, economic and cultural news magazine published by over 20 local teams in many EU countries. The site has news, cultural and linguistic goodies in catalá, Deutsch, English, español, français, italiano and polski.

Café Babel publishes several mini-magazines that bring light to several topics:

The growing network of local teams that makes up Café Babel are European youths interested in and focused on trans-European world affairs, politics, society, economy and culture. To get a more personal look at some of the members of this team (the ladies, at least), have a look at this flickr photo album of The Women of Café Babel. Pretty cool, and it makes it more personal. (Miglena, Araceli, Camelia: if you read this drop me a line. :)

This particular news feed is the German language site-wide RSS feed. You can use it to keep up with what's hot over at Café Babel and practice your German or give students some current events to work with. Many of the articles are written in multiple languages, providing learners and educators alike with excellent material.

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cafebabel.com is made up of a network of local teams across Europe. Bringing together young people from across the continent, this network aims to contribute to the construction of pan-European public opinion through the cafebabel.com magazine.

The local teams are cafebabel.com’s backbone. Their function? To propose subjects for issues, articles and interviews; to recruit writers and translators; to promote cafebabel.com; and to organise ‘café debates’ and events. Interested in setting up a local cafebabel.com team?

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Learn about the German Language at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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If you don't know about Wikipedia, now is the time to find out! Especially since it is so useful in learning languages.

Wikipedia is the "Free Encyclopedia", a collectively-authored, dynamic, online encyclopedia that is free not only as in price, but also as in freedom. This means that the content you find anywhere on Wikipedia is free and open in the Public Domain. You can reproduce, redistribute and rehash the information there. This is empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License. This same license protects and empowers the contant on Free Language! (How?)

This particular resource links to the Wikipedia entry on the German language. This entry contains loads of information for the curious reader as well as for the serious German language learner, including historical and linguistic data.

Use this resource to become familiar with the German language and its context in today's world, to discover facts and linguistic data about German and its many varieties, access further information about and resources for learning German, and much more.

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The German language (Deutsch, [dɔɪ̯tʃ]) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Other English names for the language are Dutch (historical/informal usage, from Deutsch), and Teutonish/Teutonic. German is closely related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. Around the world, German is spoken by ~100 million native speakers and also ~30 million non-native speakers, and Standard German is widely taught in schools and universities in Europe. Worldwide, German accounts for the most written translations into and from a language (Guinness Book of Records). German is also the fifth most commonly spoken language in American homes.

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