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Autodidactic Centres and Learning Software
Many universities and Goethe-Institute have autodidactic centres, leading publishing houses have PC learning programmes on offer, or computer-aided media. An overview of material and publishers:

Bildung online (Education online), the joint Internet portal of leading German publishers of teaching material:

Course programmes, test pages and specimen exercises may be found on the publishers´ websites:


More information on autodidactic programmes is to be found under:

From my personal experience

"I am called Pedro and I come from Brazil. I am attending a German course at the Goethe-Institut. But that isn´t enough for me as I want to study German at a university here next year. So I want to learn a lot of German and study it intensively. I go nearly every day to the autodidactic centre at the university, where I can find programmes and material for autodidactic study. I simply sit at the computer, headset on, microphone on, and off we go. I revise some grammar, then I test myself with language games and quizz exercises, or practise new words. The autodidactic programmes are very good and very varied. Programmes are available on cassette, on CD-ROM or for downloading from the Internet. I can also borrow programmes, or buy them and learn on my PC at home.

The computer is like my teacher - it corrects me, gives me answers, sometimes it just laughs when I have answered something correctly. I find it´s fun to learn German like this. I can come and go whenever I like, I can practise whatever I want, and the computer is very patient. Of course, I miss the personal contact, but for that I attend the course once a week. For me, learning in an autodidactic centre is very practical and motivating."

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Universität

"Universität" means university and is used for research universities (wissenschaftliche Hochschulen) that offer a broad range of subjects (like arts and humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, economics and business administration, law, medicine). These institutions confer doctorates. The strong research focus benefits students in their training. Please note, however, that English texts often use the term "university" generically, i.e. to cover all kinds of higher education institutions, for example, universities of the arts, universities of applied sciences, universities of education, etc.

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Date: 2008-12-04