MyLanguageExchange is a website that offers free German lesson plans, and free guidelines and tips on language exchange, all designed by experts in language exchange learning. MyLanguageExchange allows you to learn German by getting you a German-speaking language exchange partner, to practice writing emails with pen pals in German, written German conversation with text chat, and spoken German using voice chat.
The main emphasis with MyLanguageExchange is to learn real German slang, expressions, etc, used by ordinary native speakers, getting used to the manner in which real native speakers speak in casual German conversation, and finding a friend from the German-speaking culture.
Deutsch-Lernen.com: Free lessons on learning German
Deutsch-Lernen is a free online German learning course that incorporates 10 German lessons for total beginners, an overview of basic German grammar rules, assisted by concise grammar tables and example sentences; and 24 German grammar lessons for advanced learners, selected German exercises with 3 levels of difficulty, several (7) tips on new German orthography, and 2 online German tests.
Additional features of site include study tips, international pen pals, chat, famous quotations, and an online German dictionary to translate German terms into 70 languages including French, English, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Chinese, Spanish, and more.
Oklahoma State University German Online
Oklahoma State University (http://osu.okstate.edu) offers a German Online learning curriculum started 1984 for high schools using the Internet. German Online is a series of distance learning courses, from which students can receive credit for the courses from their high school, and has now taught German to more than 20,000 students.
OSU German Online provides 5-days-a week courses, which students can access via the internet to take quizzes and tests, and make use of video, animation and sound files to help them practice vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar points and learn the culture of German-speaking countries. Telephone sessions for learning spoken German and assistance via toll-free 800 numbers are also available.
German For Travellers
Germanfortravellers is another online German learning site that offers free lessons, as well as paid courses. Free lessons include Vocabulary exercises with audio, Grammar, and other exercises such as Text-only, Crosswords, Pictures, Audio, Video, and Flash.
In order to access the complete Germanfortravellers site and its special features, you have to sign up as a paid member, which is $15.95/year. Special Features include grammar explanations, Useful Vocab Lists, over 2000 audio files, culture pages etc.
BabelNation.com German: Courses and Exams for free.
BabelNation German is a web-service that offers totally free German courses, exercises and exams. The lessons are geared to enable learners to understand conversations, and communicate with German speaking natives. The website also allows you to design your own German worksheets and participate in the German language forum discussions. Interactive features of the BabelNation German includes the following features:
• German sound examples
• Vocabulary trainers
• Online tests
• Pictures
