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All who are interested in the German language, want to read up on study in Germany, or just like to know more about society, culture, and politics in Germany will find here helpful and informative links. Click on one of the categories or directly on a link:
All who are interested in the German language, want to read up on study in Germany, or just like to know more about society, culture, and politics in Germany will find here helpful and informative links. Click on one of the categories or directly on a link:
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Study in Germany:
www.daad.de is the website of the German Academic Exchange
Service. DAAD offers varied information to those who want to study or research in Germany.
www.distributed-campus.org is the E-learning
Portal of the Free University of Berlin. Distributed
Campus prepares international students who plan to study at the Free University for their stay in Berlin thoroughly – academically, linguistically
and organisationally.
www.inobis.de is a portal for international study applicants.
INOBIS contains two databases: the Zeugnis-Datenbank
provides information about the assessment of foreign university entrance qualifications in Germany, and the
Bewerbungscheckliste informs about courses
of study, departments and degrees at uni-assist universities.
www.international-students.de is a website
provided by the German
Association for Student Affairs. Structured according to the different phases of studying, the webpage informs about
the services offered by the 58 local student affairs organisations: housing, refectories and cafeterias, advice on financing
and health insurance and much more.
www.self-assessment.tu9.de is a cost-free online
consulting service for study applicants. If you plan to study Engineering in Germany and want to take the TestAS,
you can first do the SelfAssessment
international. SelfAssessment offers the opportunity to find out about study requirements and about one's own
strengths and weaknesses.
www.sprachnachweis.de is an information page for international
study applicants. Its focus is on a simple query which gives detailed and up-to-date information about the required
language skills for each course offered by a German University.
www.studieren.de is Germany's leading study information portal.
Applicants, students and graduates get an overview as well of all german study programs and colleges as important information about
financing studies and job search. Internationally
www.studieren.de is expanding to a paneuropean study guidance.
www.study-in-germany.de is a comprehensive information
portal for international students, academics and researchers in Germany offered by Deutsche Welle. Study in Germany is published in German
and English as well as six other languages.
www.testas.de is the information and access page of the TestAS – the Test
for Academic Studies. A comprehensive overview of TestAS test centres in Germany and all around the world is also available on
www.testas.de.
www.testdaf.de offers comprehensive information about the test
of German as a Foreign Language. Those who need TestDaF for admission to university studies in Germany can find out
when and where to take the TestDaF and how best to prepare for it.
www.uni-assist.de assists international study applicants
with the application for admission to German universities. The online application service allows you to apply to
more than 90 universities in German.
www.was-studiere-ich.de is the online test for study
applicants by the University of Hohenheim. This 15 minute self-assessment compares your own profile of interest
with the courses offered by University of Hohenheim and other universities. You will be given study and job-related
information according to your profile as well as hints concerning your career choice.
German Language:
www.duden.de answers your questions about German orthography,
terminology, foreign words, and synonyms. The newsletter
gives hints about language use and informs about spelling and grammar. Duden query allows you quick online research.
Deutsch perfekt
is an 80-page German learning magazine with interesting
stories from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, numerous exercises for German-learners, glossaries of difficult words, texts to listen
to. Deutsch perfekt is appearing every month.
Hueber Verlag develops teaching materials and text books
for German as a Foreign language – as the market leader for the past 50 years. The website offers learners of German
the opportunity to buy online
text books in the area of German as a Foreign Language, to read online texts about society and culture and to
download teaching material.
The Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Institute for
German Language) researches and documents the present usage and the recent history of the German language. As a
central non-university institution it offers academic exchange and communication by organising
conferences and colloquia for lecturers and
researchers of German and all those interested in the German language.
vitamin de is a magazine for language learners or teachers of
German and is addressed to people interested in German who live in the Russian Federation. vitamin.de is a print paper
and can be ordered online here.
Society, Culture, and Politics in Germany:
Deutsche Kultur International provides
information on all areas of international artistic and cultural exchange. It profiles national and international organisations working
in the field of foreign cultural exchange and offers continually updated information on events, conferences and activities relating
to foreign cultural policy and affairs.
Deutschland magazine is Germany's most
international periodical. It provides background analyses, informs its readers about topical issues in Germany and Europe,
and reports on bilateral relations between Germany and other regions of the world in its regional editions.
www.dw-world.de is the website of Germany's
international radio Deutsche Welle. You can listen to political, economic and cultural news and information as
podcasts, watch
them as video and read them in 30 languages.
www.goethe.de is the website of the cultural
institute of Germany,
present all over the world. Goethe Institutes and Centres in more than 90 countries cultivate intercultural exchange
and mediate a comprehensive picture of Germany by providing information about cultural, social and political
life.
www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de
invites you to get to know Germany. It offers profound basic knowledge and guidance – especially designed for readers abroad.
Throughout nine chapters, nine distinguished authors engage in the most important political, societal and economic trends in Germany.
www.young-germany.de is an English-language website for
young people from all over the world. It arouses interest in Germany, gives information about science and career
as well as trends and the life of young people in German. Deutsch@YG offers opportunities to exercise
one's German and to get information about studying in Germany.
