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• Learning German as a foreign language: information on the Internet, search engines and link collections
• Information and advice per Internet
• WWW-Links "Language and Area Studies"

Learning German as a foreign language: information on the Internet, search engines and link collections

Overviews, selections with assessments, addresses and notices may be found under: www.fadaf.de 
www.deutsche-kultur-international.de 
www.sprachkurse-weltweit.de 

Search engines for language tandems, finding tandem partners and e-mail exchange: www.speak2speak.de 
www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de 
www.tcd.ie/clcs/tandem/servers.html 
www.tandemcity.info
www.e-mail.projekt-in.de 
www.uni-konstanz.de/ZE/SLI/german/tandem/about.html 
www.aegee.uni-karlsruhe.de/sprachboerse/main.php 

Information and advice per Internet

Fachverband für Deutsch als Fremdsprache (fadf)
The Fachverband für Deutsch als Fremdsprache (fadaf) (Specialist Association for German as a Foreign Language), whose present membership numbers some 650 individuals and institutions active in this field, aims to promote the learning of German, and to foster intercultural contacts. It addresses foreigners interested in German, or who are learning or teaching the language. A comprehensive informative portal offers up-to-date information. The fadaf issues its fadaf-aktuell-Nachrichten (News) free of charge, and publishes a well structured and annotated overview of German language examinations: www.fadaf.de 

Institut für deutsche Sprache (IDS)
Working on the basis of a collaborative Internet project, the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim and Mannheim University aim to offer information on the German language and language advice per E-mail. www.ids-mannheim.de 

DaF-Portals/ DaF-Fora
DaF-Portal – an Internet website for German as a foreign language with a diary of events, data banks, further education and job market: www.daf-portal.de 

deutsch-online
The Austrian DaF portal "deutsch-online" offers teaching material, a writing skills workshop, tasks and exercises on the Internet, together with links, programmes, addresses of DaF web-rings, and current contributions and articles. www.deutsch-online.com 

Institut für Internationale Kommunikation
The Forum Deutsch als Fremdsprache of the Institut für Internationale Kommunikation (IIK) Düsseldorf offers a continuously updated Internet service for the teaching of German as a foreign language: www.iik-duesseldorf.de www.deutsch-als-fremdsprache.de 

Similarly, the Institut für Internationale Kommunikation (IIK) Düsseldorf also organises a forum on the subject of commercial German, together with teaching and learning aids related to German teaching: www.wirtschaftsdeutsch.de 

WWW-Links "Language and Area Studies"

DAAD: Germany and Summer Courses
http://www.summerschools-in-germany.de/
Description: The DAAD website pages on “Living in Germany” offer detailed information for foreign students about everyday life in Germany, for example, on “banking”, “public transport”, “looking for a place to live” or “postal and telephone services”. The section on “Summer Courses” provides a search engine for finding the right course from a number of selected summer courses offered by Germany’s higher education institutions. You can search courses by location, topic and language of instruction.
Languages: German, English and Spanish (summer courses in German and English)

TestDaF: standardisierter Test für Deutsch als Fremdsprache
http://www.testdaf.de
Provider: The TestDaF-Institute is affiliated to the Distance University of Hagen and the Ruhr University Bochum.
Description: Study applicants from abroad generally have to prove that they are sufficiently proficient in the German language to be able to take up a course of higher education study in Germany. TestDaF is the central, standardised Test of German as a Foreign Language (Test für Deutsch als Fremdsprache) modelled on the American Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). It provides foreigners with an opportunity to take the German language test required for admission to higher education in Germany while they are still in their home country. The TestDaF website provides details on the next examination dates, a sample set of examination questions and the addresses of all test centres around the world at which TestDaF can be taken.
Languages: German (for basic information in other languages please click here: http://www.testdaf.de/html/sprachen/sprachen.htm)

Goethe-Institut
http://www.goethe.de
Provider: The Goethe-Institut (GI) has been active since January 2001 in its capacity as the largest intermediary organisation in the field of German foreign cultural policy. This new organisation is the result of the merger between the Goethe-Institut and Inter Nationes and is responsible for conveying German language and culture around the world.
Description: The website http://www.goethe.de provides an overview of the work of the Goethe-Institutes, links to all institutes and access to their information services and language courses, both in Germany and around the world. The GI homepage is complemented by various special online services for those learning and teaching German, e.g. distance learning courses and online material. Librarians and publishers/booksellers can find out about the comprehensive range of information which the GI offers (dates of specialist conferences, new publications, and so on).
Languages: German, English, the sites of the more than 100 institutes currently operated around the world are generally offered in English or in the respective national language.

German Schools Abroad on the Web
(Das Auslandsschulwesen im Internet)
http://www.auslandsschulwesen.de
Provider: The Zentralstelle für das Auslandsschulwesen (ZfA) is responsible for the education, staffing and funding of German schools working abroad within the framework of the foreign cultural policy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Description: The ZfA pages offer a wealth of details and information on the German school system abroad and a list of all recognised German schools abroad, including addresses, e-mail and Internet addresses (where available) for downloading. A world map helps users call up further details about each school.
Languages: German

Learning Languages in Tandem
(Sprachen lernen im Tandem)
http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Provider: Seminar für Sprachlehrforschung, Ruhr University Bochum
Description: The “Learning in Tandem” concept is a kind of open learning system in which people whose mother languages are different work together in pairs in order to learn their languages from each other and to find out more about the other person and about the tandem partner’s culture, and, finally, to exchange other insights and knowledge, for example, about professions. The website not only provides tandem contacts by e-mail, but also provides instructions on tandem learning and links to other relevant sites.
Languages: German, Danish, English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian and Swedish

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