German Sound Pages on the Internet

This website does not have any audio files and none are planned. The members of GermanList have come up with the following to help you find German audio on the web. We are looking for more.

Deutsche Welle has an online course at http://www.dwelle.de/radio/marktplatz . There are realaudio streams, so you can listen to conversations. There are also texts of the conversation available.

Deutsche Welle also has a mailing list, The Nachrichten, which is worth subscribing to. I think they post twice a day.

If you want help on using sound for language study, try http://www.travlang.com/languages/soundhelp.html. TravLang has help on many languages.

Ton - University of Victory Language Dept German sound page. This is a good place to learn about sound files on the Internet for Learning German. Also see Dr. Peter Goelz page German for Beginners at UVic

vocab etc: http://pw2.netcom.com/~nihan/vocab.htm - not sure this site has sound.

http://www.serve.com/shea/call.htm - not sure this site has sound

International Channel - TV German programming; Deutche Welle, etc. Listen to German

Queens University German Dept - This site has sample exams, phrases, some nice useful simple German for beginners. dept | Courses | Ger 200 | not sure they have any sound

Kai Schleyerbach Suggests these Sources:

I found a website that provides german texts as real audio files (you need real audio player to listen to it, get the player at http://www.realaudio.com). Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio are two radio stations broadcasting to all of Germany. They have a very good reputation, send the best news, interviews and some nice classical concerts. The website is in German, some of their programs are available as .ra files.

Try the Verbraucherinfos (=consumer information) or Kakadu -das Kinderradio (children's radio) or Hörspiele (=radio play) http://www.dradio.de/dlrb/index.html

No audio files but text and also interesting: A series called Deutschland von außen (=Germany from abroad) People from different countries report on their image of Germany. http://www.dradio.de/dlrb/signale/index.html

Annother station is called Deutsche Welle http://www.dwelle.de/   They broadcast in 35 languages all over the world. You can hear them with any short wave reciever. They have a radio on demand section too--real audio files all over the place!

Kai Schleyerbach
Inst.f. Agricultural Economics
Kiel University
Kai's NetzTip für Land & Leute http://www.agrarnet.de/tip

From: DoloCris@aol.com

I have The Learning Company's software Learn to Speak German. AOL has a way to use their German Online Service. They have chatrooms, news reports, and other things in German.

Cris