Online Audio and Video
Online audio and video materials are available for German at this website. You must have an Emory ID and password to access the materials.
Departments & Related Programs
Emory Favorites
Department of German Studies Online Placement Exam
Practicing
German on the Internet
Emory Favorites
Ultralingua Dictionary and Verb Conjugations
Verbix Conjugations
Deutsch Welle Learning German
BBC Business German
University of Wisconsin Podcasts
German
Introduction
"Welcome to German at Emory", a video message by professor Marianne Lancaster
German belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is the official language of Germany and Austria and is one of the official languages of Switzerland. Altogether nearly 100 million people speak German as their first language. There are 2 divisions of German dialects: Plattdeutsch (Low German) and Hochdeutsch (High German), the former spoken mainly in the lowland areas of northern Germany. German was written in a Gothic style called Fraktur from about the 14th c. until World War II, when it was replaced by Roman characters.