German


 * GERMAN LANGUAGE**

What can you do from here in California even before you go to the country? Here are some of the materials I have found helpful in trying to keep up with my German:

GERMAN--Wikipedia [] GERMAN--Google []
 * A. Wikipedia, Google, and Amazon.com in German**

Read your Bible in German. German Gospel Resources Thru the Bible: German at OnePlace [available through iTunes] []
 * B. Bibles and Devotional material**


 * C. Department store websites**

GERMAN--Breuninger Department Store []

GERMAN--Otto Department Store []


 * D. News: sample websites**

Kidon Media Link []

GERMAN--News and Newspapers (MIT Libraries) []

GERMAN--Google News []

GERMAN--Die Welt []

GERMAN--Der Spiegel []

GERMAN--Rhein-Zeitung []


 * E. Television: sample websites**

GERMAN--Tagesschau []

GERMAN--Deutsche Welle []

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 * F. LibriVox Audio Books in German**


 * G. Books I have found useful**:

//Barron's German Vocabulary.// ISBN 0-8120-4497-5 //Easy Ways to Enlarge Your German Vocabulary// //Teach Yourself German// //Teach Yourself German Vocabulary//. ISBN 0-8442-3985-2 //Cassell's Colloquial German// //Berlitz German Phrase Book and Dictionary//. ISBN 0-8315-7845-0 //Berlitz German Vocabulary Handbook//. ISBN 2-8315-6392-5 //Mastering German Vocabulary: A Thematic Approach//. ISBN 0-8120-9108-6 //Oxford 10,000 German Words//. ISBN 0-19-283095-3 //Oxford German Wordpack//. ISBN 0-19-860336-3 //501 German Verbs// ISBN 0-7641-0284-2 //2001 German and English Idioms//. ISBN 0-8120-9009-8 //The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning German//. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-02-863925-1 //Harper Collins German Concise Dictionary//, 3rd ed. ISBN 0-06-057577-8