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)
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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 A
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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
Image Repositories
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.
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