Useful and interesting links for language learning
You can find below a constantly updated overview of useful tools to support your language learning. You will find portals to facilitate your search for language learning partnerships (‘tandems’) as well as information and advice on current language tests.
Dictionaries
An extensive German-English / English-German online dictionary including plenty of idioms; with voice output and vocabulary trainer.
www.dict.cc
The classic online dictionary covering the German, English, Spanish, Chinese and French languages; with voice output and vocabulary trainer.
www.leo.org
Langenscheidt publishers offer dictionaries in the following languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Chinese. A range of dictionaries of English for special purposes are also available. You can gain free access within the Fachhochschule network to this special facility offered by our university library.
services.langenscheidt.de/hebis
Use this global dictionary to search in 275 dictionaries on the Internet. Translate from 69 source languages into 73 target languages - 400 language combinations.
www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch.htm
eTandem
In eTandem, you work together with a learning partner from another country - by telephone, e-mail or other media. From your partner, you learn his or her language while he or she learns your native language.
ta.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ts/etandem/etindex-en.html
Grammar Check
German language grammar exercises provided for free by the "Schubert Verlag". Useful for all language levels.
www.aufgaben.schubert-verlag.de
Exchange students
The "Team up!" students will offer you a pre-arrival E-mail contact and be ready to pick you at the airport or the railway station. They help you to overcome bureaucratic hurdles and assist you in understanding campus life.
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