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Guide picks
Dictionaries for specialized German, dialects and German to other languages from your Guide.

Automobile and Driving Glossary
An annotated, illustrated English-German glossary of terms related to cars and driving. Includes the Traffic Sign Glossary.

Computer and Internet Glossary
An English-German glossary of computer, Internet, Informatik and Web terminology from your Guide.

Computers/Internet
Links for typing in German, bilingual dictionaries, glossaries, and other computer-related resources in German. From your Guide.

Course Newsletter: Travel German
Planning a trip to Germany, Austria, or German Switzerland? This special Travel German course will help you prepare. You'll learn the essential German vocabulary and key phrases that will help you get more from your trip. Each week for six weeks you'll receive a new lesson.

Dialect Dictionaries
Net links for German dialects and related online dictionaries.

Dictionaries in Print
See our selection of hardcover and paperback dictionaries from various publishers in our Bookstore.

German Abbreviations
Find the German and English meaning of common and not-so-common Abkürzungen.

German Christmas Glossary
An English-German glossary of Christmas (Weihnachten) terminology from your Guide.

German Idioms and Sayings
Our guide to expressions, sayings, proverbs, and idioms in German and English can help you find just the right way to express what you really want to say.

German Vocabulary Newsletter
WORTSCHATZ I is aimed at learners who want to expand their German vocabulary knowledge. Each week for five weeks you'll receive new German lessons selected especially for advanced beginners and intermediate learners of German.

Glossaries for German
All the special English-German glossaries on this site. From your Guide.

Harry Potter Glossary
Das Harry-Potter-Lexikon is a German-English dictionary of terms for wizards and muggles. Part of our guide to using Harry Potter auf Deutsch to improve your German.

Translation Resources
Translation articles and links from your Guide.

Translate Text
Translate your own selected text from or into German on our special translation page.

Wort des Tages
The "German Word of the Day" - in German and English from your Guide.

Zitat des Tages
The "German Quotation of the Day" - in German and English from your Guide.

Abbreviations/Abkürzungen - TU-Dresden
A nice chart showing side-by-side German and English abbreviations from A to Z. From the TU-Dresden English-German Dictionary.

AEIOU Enzyklopädia
An very useful online Austrian lexicon, encyclopedia -- in German or English.

The Alternative German Dictionary
Not for the squeamish! This alternative dictionary has all the words that aren't supposed to be in the dictionary. But they're in this one.

Autobahnkirche - Glossar
An online dictionary of religious terms (in German).

Bauernhof.net - Lexikon
A German Landwirtschaftslexikon (agricultural lexicon). From "Abferkeln" to "Zwischenfruchtbau"! German only.

BMW - Autolexikon
A glossary of automobile terms from BMW in Munich.

Das deutsche Reimlexikon
A German rhyming lexicon (from Switzerland).

Dictionary Links
Links to many (over 2,200!) online English-German and German-only specialized dictionaries. By Frank Dietz.

Elsässisches-englisches Wörterbuch
An Alsatian-English dictionary by Paul Adolf from the Université Populaire in Strasbourg. "Learning English through Alsatian German."

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