Useful Websites

We have put together a list of our favorite websites for you:

Undergraduate Studies at the University of Pittsburgh

General Education Requirements: https://www.asundergrad.pitt.edu/academic-experience/general-education-…

Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Studies: https://www.asundergrad.pitt.edu/

University Center for International Studies: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/

Global Studies Center: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/

Studying in Germany

Study Abroad Office (University of Pittsburgh): https://www.abroad.pitt.edu/

General info: https://www.daad.de/en/study-research-teach-abroad/

General info: https://www.studying-in-germany.org

Student visa requirements: https://www.germany-visa.org/student-visa

Health Insurance for Student Studying in Germany: https://www.germany-visa.org/insurances-germany/health-insurance/intern…

Higher Education Compass (search engine for degree programs in Germany): https://www.daad.de/en/studying-in-germany/universities/all-degree-prog…

DAAD Summer: https://www.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/sommerkurse/en/

Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (we have had 4 people accepted in the last 2 years! If you are interested, we can probably connect you with one of them!):
https://culturalvistas.org/programs/abroad/congress-bundestag-youth-exc…

Fulbright: https://fulbrightscholars.org/us-scholar-awards

RISE (summer research internships for STEM students): https://www.daad.de/rise/en/

Goethe-Institut

The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institute, active worldwide. Its goal is to promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. Their website has a lot of materials, but they also offer language classes in Germany.

https://www.goethe.de/de/index.html

Do you require evidence of your German language skills that is recognized all over the world? The Goethe-Institut offers German exams for all levels of ability, ranging from A1 to C2. (The Department of German is in the process of becoming a testing center for the GI. Please check back later this summer for more details.)

About the Goethe-Zertifikat: https://www.goethe.de/ins/de/en/prf/prf_neu.html

Learning German

To Learn and Practice German:

Media Center/Language Lab in the Cathedral: https://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/

The following websites and the app Duolingo offer a variety of ways to practice your German, often in a fun and entertaining way – highly recommended!

Deutsche Welle: https://learngerman.dw.com/de/learn-german/s-9095

Deutsch perfekt: https://www.deutsch-perfekt.com/deutsch-ueben

Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/  (Did you know that Duolingo is located in Pittsburgh?) 

Online Dictionaries:

Available both in English/German and vice versa, and in German/German. Beware though: sometimes a printed dictionary can be much more helpful. Online dictionaries are often harder to navigate, as they tend to give you many options with very few cues to tell you which one might be the right one in your case. We recommend therefore that you double-check, especially if you looked up an English word: test if you picked the correct German translation by translating it back into English using the same app. Often the other English words suggested will give you a hint if you chose the right one.]

https://www.leo.org/german-english

https://www.dict.cc

https://www.duden.de/   (German-German Dictionary)

https://www.dwds.de/  (German-German Dictionary)

https://de.pons.com/%C3%BCbersetzung

https://www.linguee.com/

Online Flashcards:

https://www.quizlet.com/

You can create your own, but sometimes other people have already done the work for you and created the flashcards you need (you will find several sets for Netzwerk for example).

German Grammar:

If you are looking for more grammar explanations and exercises in particular, these websites might be helpful, and they often have other interesting information as well:

Grammar Practice (Dartmouth College): https://dartdrill.dartmouth.edu/driller

Interactive Grammar Tutor (University of Michigan): https://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Grammatik/index.html

German Grammar with Rules and Interactive Exercises: 

https://deutsch.lingolia.com/en/grammar 

https://deutsch.lingolia.com/de/

Grammar Explanations, Review Exercises, and more:

https://www.nthuleen.com/teach/grammar.html

www.deutschseite.de

German-Language Media

Magazines:

Deutsche Welle (news and articles, and you can pick the language!) https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097

Der Spiegel (famous weekly magazine, founded in 1947; the print edition often has some controversial covers, which you can check out in the department): https://www.spiegel.de/

Focus (weekly magazine): https://www.focus.de/

Der Stern (another weekly magazine with a long history, founded in 1948): https://www.stern.de/

Die Zeit (weekly paper): https://www.zeit.de/index

Ze.tt (Die Zeit’s online magazine for ‘young‘ people, which is sometimes trying a little too hard to be hip): https://www.zeit.de/zett/index

Daily Papers:

Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/

Die Süddeutsche Zeitung: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/

Der Tagesspiegel: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/

Die Frankfurter Rundschau: https://www.fr.de/

Die Welt: https://www.welt.de/

Die Tageszeitung: https://taz.de/

Der Standard (Österreich): https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/

Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Schweiz): https://www.nzz.ch/

Die Bildzeitung: https://www.bild.de/

TV and Video:

Die Tagesschau: Watch the news in German: https://www.tagesschau.de/

Deutsche Welle (also has videos, and you can pick the language!) https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097

ZDF-Mediathek: https://www.zdf.de/

Popular TV shows (Stromberg, Pastewka) free online: https://www.myspass.de/

Film:

https://www.filmportal.de/

https://www.german-films.de/

https://www.ffa.de/ffa-english.html

Information about Switzerland

https://www.myswitzerland.com/de/home.html

Information about Austria

https://www.austria.info/en-us/

History

Deutsches Historisches Museum: https://www.dhm.de/lemo/

Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und Bildern (DGDB)/ German History in Documents and Images (GHDI): https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/about.cfm?language=german

Zeitzeugenportal: https://www.zeitzeugen-portal.de/

The ZDF "Die Deutschen" series:
https://www.zdf.de/dokus/die-deutschen-140

Planet Wissen (lots of good articles on German culture and history):
https://www.planet-wissen.de/index.html

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: https://www.bpb.de/

The Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb) is a federal public authority providing citizenship education and information on political issues for all people in Germany.

Holocaust and Peace Studies

City for the Cultures of Peace https://www.peace-culture.org

Classroom without Borders: https://cwbpgh.org/

Yad Vashem: https://www.yadvashem.org/

US Holocaust Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/

Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh: https://hcofpgh.org/

Literature

Online Primary Source Material:

http://www.zeno.org/

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/

Folktales:

D. L Ashliman's Library of Folktexts: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

General Literature:

A general introduction zur Epochenliteratur (for all those nerds): https://www.literaturwelt.com/epochen/

Information about contemporary literature: https://www.perlentaucher.de/

Sommers Weltliteratur to go (run by Reclam Verlag; summaries of German literary gems using legos): https://www.youtube.com/user/mwstubes

To Buy German books:

https://www.ibiservice.com/