Useful Links
German
A service magazine for all those teaching and learning Business German. A useful website with many exercises and materials on specific topics.
Free tests in 25 languages.
Many online exercises including error analysis.
This website contains common phrases, idiomatic expressions, and collocations for advanced learners of German.
English
An online language lab with a wide variety of English listening comprehension exercises at various levels of difficulty on a broad range of topics. There is also a section with listening comprehension exercises for English for Academic Purposes as well as short pronunciation exercises.
Teachers and students of English can find a wide range of information on this website.
A wide variety of general and specialist language activities for children, youth and adults.
This website provides both language teachers and learners with exercises on grammar, pronunciation, listening comprehension, reading, writing, as well as games and quizzes.
An online learning English website with listening comprehension exercises, quizzes, and much more.
Video clips and listening exercises prepared by the BBC for Spanish, French, German and Italian (English is the reference language) for practicing listening skills on one’s own.
French
This website contains an extensive range of French materials.
Information on French language and culture – including “politically correct” jokes. A large number of links to language exercises, information websites on France, dictionaries, and media (newspapers, periodicals, radio programs, and TV programs).
Italian
This website contains interactive exercises, more than 1,000 audio files, more than 100 links, and much more. Have fun learning Italian!
The ICoN is a consortium composed of 24 Italian universities, which offers the “Italian Language and Culture for Foreigners” degree program, a digital library, Italian courses for foreigners, a virtual museum, courses in “Written Italian for Professional Purposes”, and an encyclopedia.
Spanish
Spanish grammar exercises including explanations, listening comprehension exercises, and short videos for intermediate to advanced learners. A clear and well-designed website to help Spanish learners improve their language skills.
A website containing information about Spanish culture and society as well as a wide range of interesting information on learning Spanish.
An abundance of material for Spanish learners of various levels: dialogues including texts to read and listen along to, and vocabulary lists organized by topic (available as mp3s). Two new lessons including audio files are posted online every day. A good website with a lot of material.
Other languages
Communicating in Croatian via e-mail, text chat, and voice chat to develop better communication skills.
Dutch course in 10 lessons focusing on Dutch culture and history.
A homepage containing several different Hungarian dictionaries. There is also a pronunciation feature, which is highly recommended. A favourite website of Hungarian learners.
Several languages
The website of a Lingua D/2 project containing exercises in 3 languages. Learners can practice their English, French, and Spanish online.
This website contains vocabulary tests in English, German, French, and Spanish.
Linguanet Europe is a very extensive multilingual database designed specifically for the teaching of foreign languages. There are links for German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and some other languages, which are categorized according to general and vocational foreign language teaching. There is a short description of each link which makes it easy to find a suitable link.
This internet picture dictionary is a freely accessible resource for German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish. This website is highly recommended for anyone learning one of these languages.
Dictionaries
- LEO dictionary (several languages)
An excellent dictionary with 350,000 entries. This dictionary can help learners expand their vocabulary.
- BEOLINGUS dictionary ― Technical University of Chemnitz (German, English, Spanish, and Portuguese)
A simple dictionary based on a word list containing approx. 150,000 entries.
- PAUKER dictionary (several languages)
Newspapers, radio, and TV
- Information about radio stations and TV programs online (several languages)
A website containing information about radio stations and TV programs online organized by country. Perfect for listening comprehension exercises.
- Overview of newspapers available online (several languages)
Overview of newspapers and periodicals available online in Chinese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
University language centres
University of Graz: treffpunkt sprachen – Centre for Language, Plurilingualism and Didactics (trsp)
University of Innsbruck: International Language Centre of the University of Innsbruck (isi)
University of Linz: Center for Business Languages and Intercultural Communication
University of Salzburg: Language Centre of the University of Salzburg
University of Vienna: Language Centre of the University of Vienna (SZUW)
Language institutions
ÖDaF ― Austrian Association for German as a Foreign/Second Language
ÖGLB ― Austrian Association of the Deaf
ÖSD ― Examination Centre of the Austrian German Language Diploma
UNIVERSITAS ― Austria Interpreters' and Translators' Association
European initiatives
AKS ― Working Group of Language Centers, Language and Foreign Language Institutes
Association of Language Testers in Europe
EAQUALS ― Evaluation & Accreditation of Quality in Language Services
CercleS ‒ European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education
European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe