What is happening in the German-speaking countries TODAY?

• See what the Germans watch (and you also get a good list of the current headlines) on ARD - (select Nachrichten to see a video of the news journal), ZDF (you can watch several news videos here too) or ProSieben.
• Get your daily German news from these popular newspapers and magazines:
• Der Spiegel (daily e-mail newsletter available - excellent)
  Die Zeit
• Die Welt
  Frankfurter Allgemeine
  FOCUS
  Deutsche Welle WWW (Real Audio and daily e-mail newsletter)
• Switzerland's news and information platform
• Listen to live radio programs: go to Mike's Radio World, select Europe and then Germany, Austria or Switzerland, and you can choose among more than 100 radio stations!
• What's the weather like in Germany today?
• Wie spät ist es in Deutschland? See what time it is in Germany right now!
• Shopping in Germany: Einkaufen im Internet, from this supermarket E D E K A, or at the furniture store that all Germans love: IKEA.
• What is playing in the cinemas? Check out these sites:
  Kino-News - Deutschland
  Cinema
  Kinderfilme
  Tiscali.kino
• Take a live look at Germany, Austria and Switzerland through webcams.
• Any exhibition going on? Visit these museums: Deutsches Museum (one of the largest science museums in Europe - in Munich), Deutsches Historisches Museum (in Berlin), or check out this museum site.
• What's going on in the soccer world?
  
  General sites
• Tourism in Germany (a lot of information, including upcoming concerts, films, exhibits, etc.)
• www.google.de: Google in German!
• Juppidu - das Jugendmagazin
• Bunte - The equivalent of People magazine
• Goethe Institut - Organization promoting the German language and culture worldwide.
• Deutscher Bundestag - Visit the home of the German Parliament.
• Official Berlin website
• CologneWeb - Everything you need to know about the city of Cologne.
• Vienna Online - News and events in and around Vienna.
• Thousands of Foreign Language books that you can order
• German newspapers and magazines
• Facts about Germany
• The German way: Language and culture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Stadtpanoramen: Visit many German cities with lots of pictures. Beautiful!
• Quelle: browse through this mail-order catalog
• Zzzebra: Webmagazin für Kinder
• Castles in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Zürich: downtown Switzerland
• See the world's highest webcams in the Swiss Alps
• Gateway to Switzerland
  
  Language sites
• Online dictionary - very good!
• PONS dictionary - German/English
• Babel fish translator
• Excellent language site with tons of German exercises, videos, quizzes, vocabulary, audio, slang phrases, etc.
• Online German course for beginners
• Jim Becker's German links: Take your time here, it's an incredibly rich site!
• This site offers a selection of short narrative works in German from the late 18th to the end of the 19th centuries, featuring texts from documented editions and, many times, with English translations.
• The entire story of Max und Moritz by Wilhelm Busch, in German and/or English.
• World languages and cultures: German
• Deutsche Literaturgeschichte
• about.com: German language
• The awful German language! (Read what Mark Twain had to say about this language... - quite entertaining!)
• Read and listen to the story of "Hänsel und Gretel"
• Webgerman: an incredibly comprehensive site with hundreds of links for culture, language, quizzes, grammar, history, reference material, Business German, fun games, etc.
• German grammar explained in powerpoint presentations
• German language web exercises
• Languages of the world website: select German
• Deutsch im Netz
• German idioms
  
  Music sites
• Single charts in Germany, Switzerland, Austria
• Rammstein
• German, Austrian, Swiss national anthem (with lyrics in four languages)
• German music: contemporary, popular, classical.
• Volkslieder (folk songs) and German songbook
• Deutsche Schlager
• Neue deutsche Welle
• German music site
• In the classical music pages, look for information on Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauß, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, etc.
  
  Food
  Check out the German, Austrian and Swiss Recipes page on this site. You'll find lots of information there!
  Return to Top