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Dictionaries and glossaries

• Meyers Lexikon. Monolingual on-line dictionary. It just allows three users at a time, so you may have to wait.
• Zeres. German-French-German (20,000 entries) and German-English (50,000 entries). Search mode.
• LEO Dictionary. German-English-German. Over 130,000 entries, with idioms. It gives the possibility of solving problems.
• DICOVOX. French-English-French and German-English dictionary. Quite complete and with idiomatic expressions. Besides, it has English pronunciation.
• German-English-German Diccionary. 100,000 entries. Search mode.
• Langenscheidt Dictionary. English-German-English. With idioms.
• The New English-German Dictionary. Searchable in both directions. It also includes some grammar notes.
• Michaelis Portuguese-German-Portuguese Dictionary. You must register, but it is free.
• Translate Dictionary Esperanto-English-Esperanto. Search mode.
• Esperanto-German  /  German-Esperanto Dictionary.
• LOGOS on-line dictionary. Multilingual dictionary that inludes over thirty languages and more than 5 million entries. Maintained by a team of translators, but new entries can be suggested. Appart from the dictionary, it has links to specialized magazines, a text corpus, etc. LOGOS is a translation agency and in the main page there is some information about the sevices it offers.
• EURODICAUTOM. With a new, much quicker interface. Both source and target languages are: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Finnish. Mainly official and technical terms. It has additional information such as idioms, phraseology, abbreviations, definitions, etc.
• German Alternative Dictionary. Dictionary of bad language and other words not easily found in a conventional dictionary. 150 entries.

Glossaries

• Commando. Internet glossary.
• The Internet Dictionary Project. In English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian. Not many entries so far.

Other

• Beilstein Dictionary of Organic Chemistry. German-English-German. About 2100 entries. No definitions.
• Botany online. German-English-German glossary.
• Astronomy Thesaurus. English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Without definitions, but it gives related and general terms and the correspondence in the other languages.
• Technical dictionary of textile industry. French, English, German, Spanish. More than 10,000 terms about materials, industrial processes, etc. No definitions.
• Glossary of medical terms. Multilingual glossary of medical terms, both scientific and colloquial, in eight European languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, German and Italian.
• Climbing dictionary. Terms in English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian. Definitions in English. Text mode.
• TermFinance. Interactive dictionary of business terms in English, French, German and Italian. With related terms.
• Batteries from A to Z. Everything you've ever wonder about batteries and never have dared to ask. 300 terms in English and German.
• Das Schuh- Und Lederlexikon. Monolingual glossary on leather products.
• Do it yourself. Monolingual glossary.
• Roche Lexicon. Medical dictionary with German terms and definitions and their English correspondents.
• Soaring Glossary. English-German-English.

Mailing lists

• Deutsche-list. International list for germanists. The listserv address is DEUTSCHE-LISTE-REQUEST@CCU.UMANITOBA.CA. The list's, DEUTSCHE-LISTE@CCU.MANITOBA.CA.
• German lists. Collection of lists on various topics.

Language

• Official rules of the new German spelling.
• German for travelers. Basic words and expressions to make oneself understood in the country.

Newspapers

• Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung.
• Der Spiegel.

Software

• WinDi. Translation helper for German, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. It includes inter-related dictionaries, grammar information, sentence translation, verb conjugation, pronunciation, etc. Compatible with Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and NT 4.0. You have access to a free demo, but then you must pay for it.

Searching engines

Weitere Suchindizes. A list of searching robots, mainly German.

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More German resources

• The Kassandra Project. A collection of links on German language and culture.
• The Virtual Library's German server.
• Jump Stations. Papers, professional associations, universities, libraries, etc.
• Dino. It has an alphabetic list of subjects.
• German on the net.

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