This page was written 98 Sep 12 and some programs are not yet installed on the server but should be within a week.

Learn German via Free Software

This site is designed to help everyone learn German. Harold Eddleman has written software to help himself learn German and other subjects. He is making most of those programs available free to the public. Some of the programs are special for a particular page. For example: ger230e.bas goes with lesson ger230e.htm Such programs are listed at the top of the specific lesson page and also on this page. Others are more general or tutor sentences or phrases.

The programs are written in QBASIC which was a part of DOS 5.0 and later DOS. Most of them run on the Original IBM PC and many were written on that machine. Kids can now buy those computers for $5 to $25 complete with disk drives and monitor (try a dealer or computer/ham fest). See my Computer Science site for ideas on using these old machines. While many of my programs run under Dos 3.3, I suggest you install DOS 5.0 on such machines.

All the educational material of each program is in DATA statements at the bottom of the program. I suggest you add your own statements, or remove all my DATA statements and enter your own for studying biology, French, Business Law, etc. I also suggest you modify the main program to learn programming or meet your special needs.

This is a very simple program for presenting complex stuff in a flash card format. It does not display items randomly or have any other advanced features. Currently it has some of the 1000 word vocabulary and more will be added. After comment by visitors it may be improved. So far there has been no comment.

How to Download and Run this Free software.

Instructions for download and use (all are Qbasic programs) [Available only for PC computers]:

• 1. Click on the Link
• 2. The xxx.bas program will download and may appear on your screen. If you get an error message ignore it and press Save Program.
• 3. Press in order and release: Alt-f-a [save as] in any directory of your choice
• 4. Go to the DOS prompt and run like any QBASIC program:
•        type qbasic xxx <enter>
•        type alt-r-<ENTER>
•        program will then be running properly, if all goes properly
• 5. to shut down, just turn computer off, or go to the dos prompt
• 5. if you were running QBASIC under windows, type Exit <ENTER>; then shut down in the normal way.

List of free software.

Voight1.bas - easy to intermediate phrases from Prof. Voight's 1909 book Excursionsbuch zum Studium der Vogelstimmen (Field Guide to Bird Songs). Contains mostly general German phrases and some complete sentences. Nature students will enjoy learning a bit about German Birds. You may type in your reply or use Silent Review mode.

Voight2.bas - more phrases, as above.

Voight3.bas - Longer excerpts from the book.

ger230e.bas - Rule for making masculine nouns from verbs by adding -er to the stem.

This is the complete list of all free software offered on this Learn German website.

List of not free software.

List of Software from Other Sources

These are programs used by members of GermanList and their comments about the programs. No information has been received.