# Best way to learn German through the internet?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-learn-german-through-the-internet/289981>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 14, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-learn-german-through-the-internet/289981 "2005-02-14T06:58:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mert-Sekert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Mert-Sekert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mert-Sekert)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-learn-german-through-the-internet/289981/1 "2005-02-14T06:58:44Z")

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So I used to take a German studies class in highschool around a year ago, and I was interested in continuing studying German culture and language… but unfortunately, it never panned out… That was a couple years ago. I no longer have a decent grasp of the language, and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestion on re-learning the German language. I’d really appreciate websites, but books and audio-cassettes would suit me fine, too.

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**Author:** ![Mert-Sekert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Mert-Sekert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mert-Sekert)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-learn-german-through-the-internet/289981/2 "2005-02-14T07:17:21Z")

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And this should have been in IMHO…

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**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-learn-german-through-the-internet/289981/3 "2005-02-14T11:48:19Z")

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There is a pretty good online German course (made by the Goethe Institut together with the Deutsche Welle, which you can find here: [German course](http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2547,00.html.de). If that link doesn’t work, just look for it on the home page of _Deutsche Welle_ at [www.dw-world.de](http://www.dw-world.de).

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-learn-german-through-the-internet/289981/4 "2005-02-14T14:35:16Z")

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> [@Mert-Sekert](#):
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> And this should have been in IMHO…

Off to IMHO.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ

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**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-learn-german-through-the-internet/289981/5 "2005-02-14T14:43:55Z")

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There’s a free German course at wikibooks, but I don’t know how good it is.

[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German)

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**Author:** ![Nahk\_Ila\_Dihahs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@Nahk\_Ila\_Dihahs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nahk_Ila_Dihahs)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-learn-german-through-the-internet/289981/6 "2005-02-14T19:28:21Z")

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Try [http://german.about.com](http://german.about.com). Its quite good in that it gives sends you daily exercises on your email.