Resources
DartDrill
DartDrill is a program that allows students to practice grammatical forms and receive feedback on their efforts. It is the most recent in a series of increasingly sophisticated versions of a computer program begun by Emeritus Professor Bruce Duncan at Dartmouth College in 1967.
German Chatterbox 1.0
German Chatterbox 1.0 is a program that allows language learners to practice German vocabulary, grammatical form and cultural awareness by communicating with 10 life-like virtual chat partners about a range of personal and professional interests. Each chat partner features read-out-loud vocabulary lists, microphone input and downloadable worksheets that can be assigned in class or at home. The online application is under development by the German Department's Language Director Nick Ostrau.
Grammar Review
Grammatik is a systematic survey of German grammar by Emeritus Professor Bruce Duncan.
TV and Video Resources
The Dartmouth campus DarTV carries two German stations: Deutsche Welle and, for more popular fare, Pro7Sat1world.
In the iTunes Music Store, a search on “ZDF” produces everything from audio and video “Nachrichten” to “Der Krimi Podcast” to children’s “Podcast der Logo.” They are about 30 minutes each and are updated every day.
Two other valuable sites for downloadable and streaming media: tagesschau.de and dradio.de.
Annotext
Annotext is a web-based application that was developed at Dartmouth College to assist students in understanding linguistically difficult literary texts.
Library Resources
The German Studies Web for the Association of College and Research Libraries provides access to selected scholarly resources in German Studies and to a wide variety of links of interest to students of German, including a convenient listing of German-language news sources on the web.
The Dartmouth College Library has a library catalog and selected databases for German Studies as well as traditional reference books in the Baker/Berry reference room.