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Free Hörspiel for German Learners
I came across a neat resource for German learners recently, Detektei Suni & Partner. It’s a Hörspiel, or radio play, in podcast format. Other than some brief encounters with radio plays as a child (which I had to listen to … Continue reading
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Cyrillic Handwriting – Take Three!
After reading the comments on my last post, along with Geoff’s blog post response, I wanted to clarify my position a bit on Cyrillic handwriting. I think learning the cursive form of Cyrillic is useful for the foreign learner – … Continue reading
Cyrillic Handwriting, Take Two
I posted back in March of ’07 about some videos that Natasha at Spoonful of Russian had made, showing how to write each Cyrillic letter. These videos are still available, but if you’re wanting something a bit quicker, Brown University … Continue reading
WordReference.com Now Has German and Russian Dictionaries
WordReference.com used to have a German dictionary, but for whatever reason, they had to take it down. If I remember correctly, the publisher of the dictionary decided they didn’t want WordReference.com to offer it for free. I was pleasantly surprised, … Continue reading
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A Free Online Monolingual German Dictionary
I discovered a free, monolingual German dictionary online a few days ago. It’s part of Das Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jh., or DWDS. You can access the dictionary, as well as word information and the text corpus … Continue reading
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Finally, A German Course At My University
I received an newsletter today from the university I attend, and they’re (finally!) offering a German course. It’s offered this fall, and I’ve gone ahead and signed up for it. It’s just an “elementary” German course, so I’m not really … Continue reading
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Another Attempt with Word Lists
I’ve written in the past about my attempt at using word lists, and if you’ve kept up with those posts, after reading this one, you’ll probably think I suffer from split personality syndrome. But, I can at least say I’m … Continue reading
Grimms Deutsches Wörterbuch
I discovered through the WordReference Forums today that the whole Grimms Deutsches Wörterbuch, which consists of 32 volumes, is available for free online. The project page for this is here; the direct link to the dictionary itself is here. The … Continue reading
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Assimil French with Ease Progress
I’m now up to lesson 56 in Assimil’s French with Ease, and, having done about a week’s worth of the “active wave”, I wanted to comment on it. As I’ve mentioned before, Assimil’s approach consists of a passive wave and … Continue reading
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Why you probably shouldn’t buy Schau ins Land
There’s a company called Champs-Elysees, which makes four different audio magazines for language learners: Champs-Elysees, Puerta del Sol, Acquerello italiano, and Schau ins Land. Each issue of the audio magazines comes with a CD or cassette tape (around an hour … Continue reading
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