Producing Umlaute in Windows Applications

In Microsoft Word, go to Insert | Symbols | More Symbols.

If you find yourself using Umlaute often, you may switch your keyboard functions so as to produce, e.g., an "ä" by pressing "quotation mark + a". To set this up do the following:

Control Panel  |  Regional and Language Options  |  Languages  |  Details  |  Add United States  - International

We recommend that you make US - International the default input language and also show the language bar on the desktop.
  

Umlaute in ASCII (higher part of ISO 8859-1)

	ä	Alt 0228	Option U A	ä
	ö	Alt 0246	Option U O	ö
	ü	Alt 0252	Option U U	ü
	Ä	Alt 0196	Option U Shift A	Ä
	Ö	Alt 0214	Option U Shift O	Ö
	Ü	Alt 0220	Option U Shift U	Ü
	ß	Alt 0223	Option U S	ß

Dictionaries

• dict.leo.org. LEO, run by the Technical University of Munich. See also the handy plug-in LION under Recommended Free Software below.
• credoreference.com. Collins German Dictionaries, Davidson Library.
• dwds.de. Das Digitale Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache des 20. Jh. (Akademie der Wissenschaften). Contains corpora, German definitions, and word information.

Teaching Resources

• www.aatg.org. AATG archive of teaching materials.
• www.goethe.de/dll/mat/deindex.htm. Goethe Institut Inter Nationes. Wealth of exercises, projects, activities.

Image Repositories

• www.davidson.edu/german/gallery/gallery.html. German Photo Gallery of Davidson College.
• www.realiaproject.org. REALIA Project of the Associated Colleges of the South

Language

• www3.davidson.edu/cms/x1618.xml. Davidson College Language Resource Center
• www.erlangerliste.de. Erlanger Liste. Collection of links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, etc.
• www.gfds.de. Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache. Annual listings of the "Wörter des Jahres" and the most popular German first names.

Film and Television

• www.dw-world.de. Deutsche Welle. German television in the US.
• www.filmportal.de. German Film portal.
• www.imdb.com. The Internet Movie Database. Feel free to type in the German title of a film to gather pertinent information about it.

Literature

• gutenberg.spiegel.de. Projekt Gutenberg. Literary archive of hundreds of texts.
• www.perlentaucher.de. Perlentaucher.
• literaturkritik.de. Literary criticism.
• polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/irfg. Germanistik.net.
• www.goethesociety.org. The Goethe Society of North America.

News

• www.marumushi.com. Newsmap. Treemap news visualization that uses the Google News news aggregator.
• www.tagesschau.de. ARD Tagesschau. Features video streams of the day.
• www.heute.de. ZDF heute-Nachrichten. Features video streams of the day.
• www.sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung.
• www.faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine.
• www.zeit.de. Die Zeit.
• www.spiegel.de. Der Spiegel.
• www.bild.de. Bild-Zeitung. Rated NC-17 and V-V for serious Volksverdummung.

History

• www.dhm.de/lemo/home.html. LeMO - Lebendiges Museum Online. A media-rich project of the German Historical Museum.
• www.h-net.org/~german. H-German. Daily internet discussion forum focused on scholarly topics in German history.

Sports and Games

• www.kicker.de. Kicker. The ultimate source of information on German soccer.
• www.pagat.com/schafk/skat.html. Rules for the German card game Skat, in English.
• www.catan.com. Die Siedler von Catan, Germany's smash hit board game of 1995.
• www.boardgamegeek.com. Best site for German board games.

Berlin

• www.berlin.de. City of Berlin.
• www.tu-berlin.de. Technische Universität Berlin
• www.hu-berlin.de. Humboldt Universität.
• www.fu-berlin.de. Freie Universtät Berlin.

Travel

• www.deutschland.de. Comprehensive German portal.
• www.germany.info. Comprehensive German portal for the US.
• www.germany-tourism.de. Comprehensive travel site in German and English.
• www.daad.de/deutschland. DAAD: Study and Reserach in Germany.

Post-Graduate Opportunities

• www.bundestag.de. International Parliament Internship at the Bundestag (IPS).
• www.fulbright.at. Fulbright German Language Assistantships in Austria.
• www.fulbright.de/togermany/grants/ta/index.shtml. Fulbright Teaching Assistantships in Germany.