Lifelong Learning – German

Welcome to your very own, brand new Lifelong Learning Class Blog! No more piggy-backing with other classes! All old links have migrated here from the Deutschlernblog plus oodles of new ones and new features have been added as well.

What is new?

• The “Ausdruck des Tages” (phrase of the day) widget presents a new expression or phrase each day with its often very different counterpart in German.
• The “text to speech” widget lets you insert any kind of text and will read it to you. It does not work for poetry, since it is machine read, but any other text works really well. So if you want to hear a text read in German, try this one.
• The “LiLoLe”-Shoutbox allows you to post questions that are not specifically related to a post or you can use it as a guest book or you can start a discussion there.
• A newspaper widget, so far for German newspapers, displays a random front page. Clicking on the front page image takes you to the page, which you then can enlarge into a readable size.
• The “Polyglot Word of the Day” widget displays a photograph with the corresponding word in a cornucopia of languages beneath, among them German. (The pictures sometimes are a bit far fetched, but you will get the idea.) Click on the speaker icon next to the word to listen to the pronunciation by a native speaker.
• VodPod – A growing Video Blog (VLog) Collection of German language (teaching and/or fun) VLogs.
• There is also a “Useful Books” section. I have not added this widget to make money off of the Amazon link, but to give you the opportunity to browse the books, read other peoples’ comments and form your own opinion. If you have books you would like to recommend, we will add them there, too.

So, play around with what is here and look for handouts, poems, articles, music, videos etc. to come on this page. If you have any suggestions for other things you would like to see here, please, let me know.

The header image is part of an original digital artwork I created in 2007 titled “Chihuly’s Barge”.

Pia B.

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