Want to be able to say more than just “guten tag” in German? Check out these awesome resources and start talking like you were born in Germany!
- Borrow a German language multimedia set from one of our community libraries now open so you can practice anywhere;
- We also have German dictionaries (including one you can access online from home!) and books about Germany;
- One of the best ways to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it – read books and magazine articles written in German, watch German films (I can personally recommend North Face, The Lives of Others, The Counterfeiters, Good Bye Lenin! and Run Lola Run), and listen to German music;
- Find articles about places in Germany, as well as German history and culture, at Student Resource Center;
- Learn about notable German people and more at WorldBook Online InfoFinder;
- Explore travel and tourism websites – we’ve brought all the best ones together in one place to make it easy for you;
- Earn an excellence in NCEA German with help from NZQA;
- The BBC makes learning German easy;
- Find pen pals you can write to in Germany at Deutsch-Lernen.com;
- Make learning German fun – play games at Digital Dialects;
- Keen to visit or live in Germany for a while? Win yourself a student-exchange scholarship;
- GoAbroad.com and Youth For Understanding also offer travel opportunities for high school students;
- Get travel tips from Lonely Planet;
- The German National Tourist Board can help you decide where you’ll go and what you’ll do;
Want some more really useful resources for another NCEA subject? Go to The Pulse, the library’s website for teens.
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