Niemand kennt sich, insofern er nur er selbst und nicht auch zugleich ein andrer ist.
(Friedrich Schlegel )

Home Page

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1. Information (mainly) for my college pupils
• Noticeboard
• Information and reading list for entrants
• Information, reading lists and background material for the Prelims course
• Information and reading lists for Final Honours
• Information for the Preliminary Course in German The current Faculty guide to the first-year course.
• German Final Honours School Handbook The current Faculty guide to the Final Honours course.
• IT in the German course
• Plagiarism
• British Council Language Assistants Information on the year abroad and the assistantships programme.
• Summer courses in Germany Information on summer courses on German language and culture.
• Etiquette and inter-cultural skills for the year abroad
• Improve your German with an e-mail exchange International E-Mail Tandem Network: Sprachenlernen im Tandem über das Internet.
• Forum for e-mail exchanges with German speakers
   
2. Lectures: Bibliographies and other material
• See the Weblearn site for bibliographies and handouts relating to my lectures
• Resources for advanced study and research
   
3. Research
• Publications
• Work in progress  
• Research resources in German Studies (from Intute: Arts and Humanities)
   
4. German language
• German language guide for the Preliminary course
• German CALL exercises in the 1st-year course
• Computer simulation of Finals oral examination
• Deutsch als Fremdsprache: online exercises
• Deutsch als Fremdsprache: (more) online tests and exercises
• Deutsch als Fremdsprache: (further) online tests and exercises
• Online grammar help
• Guides to the Rechtschreibreform
• Deutsch lernen, Deutsche Welle Audio, video and text material, with exercises, from the broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
• Guides to the Rechtschreibreform
• Test your knowledge of the Rechtschreibreform
• Homepage of the Dudenverlag
• Die 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
• Guide to online German dictionaries
• Das Wörterbuchnetz: German dictionaries, including Grimm and Lexer
• Wörter des Jahres 1993-
• German-English/English-German dictionary
   
5. German literature
• Biographical information and links on German authors
• German literature on the Web Works by German authors from the Middle Ages to the present, from A to Z by author.
• www.germanlit.org: A website for German literature Periods of German literature and authors from the Middle Ages to the present, with suggestions for further reading.
• Einladung zur Literaturwissenschaft An indexed guide to German literary studies from the University of Essen.
• Contemporary German writing on the Web
• Literatur im Deutschlandradio
• Showcase of new German books and books about Germany New publications in history, fiction, poetry and literary criticism.
   
6. German history
• German history from the Kaiserreich to the present
• 100 Deutsche Jahre Topic-based survey of German history of the last 100 years.
• German Historical Institute, Washington D. C.: German History in Documents and Images
• Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
• Haus der Geschichte, Bonn
   
7. Online reference
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch
• The Literary Encyclopedia
• wissen.de
• Encyclopedia Britannica
   
8. Online audio-visual media in German
To use a number of these resources, your computer needs hardware (a soundcard and speakers) and software (a media player). If the software is not already installed on your computer, you can get a free download of RealPlayer from Real.com. The list of stations given below is highly selective.
• Das Erste online The ARD, the first German TV channel.
• ORF Radio Austrian radio.
• Bayerischer Rundfunk More advanced than other channels in its online provision.
• Schweizer Radio DRS Programmes from Swiss radio, in collaboration with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
• Deutsche Welle and Deutsche Welle Media Center World news and comment in German, including audio and video broadcasts.
• DASDING Online youth radio of the Südwestrundfunk. Music and features.
• Internet-Portal zum deutschen Film Information on German cinema.
   
9. Contemporary German-speaking countries
• Information about Austria
• Tatsachen über Deutschland
• Das Deutschland-Portal
• Daily digest of culture/literature pages in the German press
• The Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• Der Standard (Austrian daily newspaper)
• Portal for German newspapers online
• DeutschlandRadio/Deutschlandfunk Topical programmes, esp. good on cultural affairs. Online text only: no audio.
   
10. Links to other sources
• University of Oxford Home Page
• St. Peter's College Home Page
• Hertford College Home Page
• Home Page of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
• Weblearn
• Oxford University Libraries Including links to online catalogues and other electronic resources
• Taylor Institution Library
• University of Oxford Language Centre: German Resources
• Sir Robert Taylor Society The Society holds annual meetings for teachers of Modern Languages.
• Online tutorial: internet information skills for modern linguists
• German Studies Web
• Institute for German Studies, Birmingham: German Web Resources
• Searching the World Wide Web: German sites
• Joe Boulter's guide to literary theory
   
11. Topical corner
• Die zehn wichtigsten deutschsprachigen Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts: Ergebnisse einer Umfrage
• Think German campaign in 2010 - events to promote German as a foreign language
• Reasons for learning German
• John Le Carré's reasons for learning German