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Language Study Resources

Language study resources for students of German:

German : biography of a language (430.9 Sa56)

A practical review of German grammar (438.2 D625)

501 German verbs fully conjugated in all the tenses (Ref 438.2 St89)

German in review (438.2 Sp26)

English grammar for students of German : the study guide for those learning German (435 Z76)

Kenntnisse: an advanced German course  (online in ebrary)

Reading German: a course book and reference grammar (435 C679)

Topics, questions, keywords: a handbook for students of German (online in ebrary)

 

To find more, search Albert by Subject. Examples:

German language
German language -- Textbooks
German language -- Readers
German language -- Business German
German language -- Grammar

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Videos

Going places and buying things, the German way (DVD S1049)

Guten tag! and then what?  (DVD S1050)

Challenges of German pronunciation (DVD S1080)

German Dictionaries

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The Oxford-Duden German dictionary : German-English/English-German (Ref 433.2 Sch64)

Deutsches Wörterbuch (Ref 433 W129a)

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German language -- Dictionaries

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German Literature - Overviews

Overview

Cambridge history of German literature (830.9 online in Cambridge Histories Online)

Encyclopedia of German literature (Ref 830.9 Sa18)

A new history of German literature (830.9 W458)

Oxford companion to German literature (Ref 830.3 G183 1997)

Modern German literature (830.9 M661)

A companion to German literature: from 1500 to the present (830.9 Sa18)

German literature: a very short introduction

 

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Works about German literature, search Albert by Subject. Examples:

 

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Finding Literary Texts

To find works by a specific author, search Albert by Author. Examples:

To browse German novels (or poems or plays)
without specifying an author, search Albert by Call Number.

 

These numbers can be subdivided chronologically

.1  (To 1099)
.2  (1100-1349)
.3  (1350-1517)
.4  (1517-1625)
.5  (1625-1749)
.6  (1750-1832)
.7  (1832-1856)
.8  (1856-1899)
.91 (1900-1990)
.92 (1990- )

Examples:

 

Texts in German

To narrow your search to find only texts in German, use the Limit/Search button after you search Albert.
Then select German from the drop-down Languages menu.

 

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Texts online


Online access to more than 150,000 full-text works including poetry, short fiction, novels, essays, plays, and speeches; more than 800,000 additional citations for poetical works published in collections. LitFinder also includes biographical essays, topic overviews, work overviews, photographs, and a glossary. More than 80,000 authors are represented, from hundreds of nationalities and genres.


Index to poetry in anthologies, including full-text and excerpts of poems

Travel and Culture

Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture (Ref 309.143 Sa57)

Business travel in Germany  (914.30488 online in ebrary)

Berlin / David Clay Large (943.155 L323)

Germany, Franken in Bavaria (online video in VAST Academic Video Online)


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Search Albert by Subject:

Germany -- Guidebooks
Germany -- Description and travel
Germany -- Civilization -- 21st century
Germany -- Social life and customs

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Videos in German

To find movies in German, click here to search Albert by

Then click the Limit/Sort button in Albert and select German from the LANGUAGE menu on the right.

LINK+ has a lot of foreign-language movies, but does not have the same options described above for searching by DVD or VHS.
To find German-language movies in LINK+, try a Subject search for e.g.  "Motion pictures, German".  Then use the Limit/Sort option to choose Language.

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