Audio-/Visual Media

Whether you are looking for information on German studies, on German as a foreign language or for leading German documentary and feature films, there is a wide range of useful, informative and interesting information available in audio/visual media. Most of these materials intended for use abroad are either generally available or, as in the case of feature films, may be lent or supplied on request to non-commercial organisers. You can peruse the wealth of material available on the homepages of the relevant organisations. It is not always possible to order directly. If you do not live in Germany the German Missions Abroad will gladly advise you on selection and ordering. Video, television and radio, cassettes and audio CDs present a lively survey of German language, culture, politics, society, economy and study in images and sound. These include plenty of material suitable for language and German studies teaching.

The catalogue of the Goethe-Institute materials for learning and teaching German provides a wide offering of teaching material: films, videos, CD-Roms and print products for teaching in class (schoolbooks and supplementary material supporting teaching lessons), for advanced vocational training in teaching German as a foreign language and for measuring learning results (testing material).

The category Cultural Studies for German as a Foreign Language mainly provides supplementary didactic material of the applied geography of Germany focused on imparting information by employing new media.

For a full survey of all teaching material provided by the Goethe-Institute please see: www.goethe.de/lhr/mat/enindex.htm.

The film catalogue provides documentaries and feature films for cultural and educational organisations from 100 years of German cinema history on offer. Classics and the latest films convey a vivid picture of cinema in Germany. Available in German with Spanish, English and French subtitles.

www.goethe.de/kue/flm/enindex.htm

This cultural video magazine appears in German, English, French, and Spanish. It is suitable for use in teaching, for cultural publicity purposes and intelevision. It covers the whole breadth of cultural, intellectual and social life in Germany.

http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/prj/kub/enindex.htm

Youth magazine on video for use in teaching abroad.

www.goethe.de/dll/prj/tur/akt/deindex.htm

Collections of books, journals, audio-visual media, posters, etc., arranged according to subjects and covering literature, history, society and culture (in German).

www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/mvm/mpg/thp/deindex.htm

Radio programmes in approximately 30 languages, among other things:

- News Bulletin

- Current Affairs

- Business & Economics

- Culture & Lifestyle

- Science & Technology

Homepage: www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1453-184677,00.html

The website Learning German issued by the German Wave (Radio Broadcasting) offers a wide range of language courses for learning German as a foreign language. The online-course German - Why not? (Deutsch - Warum nicht?) a co-production with the Goethe-Institute addresses itself to beginners and advanced learners. The course covers levels A1 to B1 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. The monolingual language course Why not so? (Deutsch - Wieso nicht?) addresses itself to advanced learners of the German language. Covering level B1 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages this online-course will help you to solidify and expand your current knowledge of German. The website German XXL (only available in German) offers a wide range of training opportunities for the German language in everyday use (amongst others training your listening comprehension). The language course Market Place - Business German addresses itself to language learners having already acquired a solid basic knowledge in the German language. Covering level B2 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages it will equip you with the appropriate German vocabulary to feel comfortable in a variety of business-related situations. The "Sprachbar"-website (only available in German) offers explanations to headlines of the daily press, quotations from belles lettres literature, idiomatic expressions, German grammar etc. The website "The News - spoken slowly" provides learners of the German language with the German Wave's everyday 11 o'clock radio news in an especially arranged programme (website in German).

DW-TV:

The global source of information from Germany and Europe. We bring you the latest news every hour followed by topical reports, magazine programs and documentaries from the world of politics, the economy, culture and sport. The DW-programme is broadcasted in four languages: German, English, Spanish and Arabic on a worldwide scale.

For an overview over the actual programme please consult the "programmes"-website of the DW.

German TV

is a joint project of Germany's public broadcasting networks ARD, ZDF and Germany's international broadcaster "Deutsche Welle". It brings you the best of German broadcasting in German 24 hours a day.