Reading German

What is that funny looking German type found in old German books and on beer steins?

German and English versions of this Grimm fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians"—now with a side-by-side dual language version.

German reading selections at various difficulty levels - with accompanying questions and exercises. From your Guide.

Helpful advice to help even beginners take advantage of online media and expand their vocabulary. With links to German-language news sources and English-German glossaries.

Selected German literature books in a side-by-side German/English format. Ideal for building vocabulary and for anyone who wants to read German literature in the original, but doesn't have advanced German skills!

A guide to major magazines published in German - in print and online.

German nursery rhymes are a fun way to learn German and are just the thing for parents with bilingual children or those who hope their kids will be bilingual.

Is German a harsh-sounding language? German poetry proves otherwise. An article from your Guide.

J.W. Goethe wrote a bestselling novel in 1771. Now you can read daily installments via email - in German and/or English.

Even more about using a handheld PC, Palm PDA, or other mobile device for reading authentic German online — at home or on the road.

The Stanley Kubrick movie is based on Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle. From your Guide.

Every day a new Zitat in German and English.

Selected verse by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In German with line-by-line translations.

This Harry Potter start page provides a unified collection of all our resources for using and enjoying the German translations to expand your German.

The developers at AT&T Labshave come up with a synthetic-speech engine for German and several other languages that sounds very human and far exceeds anything I have ever heard from a computer before now.

This German poet was also a professor and a politician. About Uhland and his works – with the text of some of his poetry.

A German resource for finding the "pearls" among German-language publications: books, magazines, etc.

Arts, essays, ideas from Germany. The English version of Perlentaucher.de (above).