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Blog with links to short stories in German.

A collection of youth-oriented French mini-books in podcast form

Short, written descriptions about aspects of life in Spain.

Every year a short video portrays some aspect of German life and students complete a quiz on the video. Great prizes await the winners, including a trip to Germany next summer. The competition is open to middle and high school students, and it ends on December 16, 2016.

From Netspeak: "To write in a foreign language is a difficult task, even for an experienced author. Problems include choosing the right word or preposition in a given context, finding a wording which is commonly used, and avoiding the use of grammatical forms which reflect the author's native language. The Netspeak Web service assists authors to overcome these issues by using the World Wide Web as a source of common language. The service can be queried with short text phrases to determine their customariness on the Web. Wildcard characters can be added to the query to search for variations and synonyms of the query phrase, which will be returned as ranked list with respect to their occurence frequency on the Web."

With the free German courses from Deutsche Welle, you can choose the learning style that suits you best: e-learning at the computer, with short videos, audio courses or podcasts, or with texts and worksheets you can print out. Select from courses for beginners, intermediate learners, and advanced learners. German language teachers are welcome to use our multimedia material in their lessons. The Course Finder helps you choose the best format for each level.

Short animated video about a young boy who encounters the monster. Chinese with English subtitles.

Very short videos, each modeling how to say an English expression in Chinese

Short videos of francophone African young people speaking about their lives. Searchable by country and topic.

Short videos of native speakers responding to topical questions. Can be used for Interpretive listening activities. Searchable by topic/proficiency level.

The comments that accompany this short video are interesting and might inspire some conversation among students.