Advice

Newspapers and news sites on the internet are a wonderful resource for language learners.  There is nothing like the latest news to motivate language learners, stimulate debate, discussion and argument. 

Most internet sites are designed for native speakers and may be difficult for the majority of language learners to understand fully. If this is the case you could try:

1. Use pictorial and video clues to help you understand the text. For technical or scientific news items you might be able to see a labelled diagram.

2. Look at the news item in your own language first. On some news sites (e.g. Euronews) you can easily swop from one language to another.

3. Find a news site that is written in shorter, simpler language.

Please see a good selection of links to online newspapers and news sites from around the world on our news broker page

LINKS (in alphabetical order)

AFP - Agence France Presse- news agency on-line(in German)

Berlinonline.de - Complete text archive since 1994 and picture archive of news worldwide and about Berlin

Deutsche Welle Radio & TV - Daily news-in-brief service as well as TV schedules.

Die Tageszeitung - Left-wing daily newspaper.

Die Welt - Online version of the big daily.

Euronews - News on-line from ITN (available in 6 languages).

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Important regional daily.

GermNews - Summary of the day's news (also available in English), with archives.

Pipeline.de - For current daily news (in German)

Suddeutsche Zeitung - Another influential regional paper.

Tagesschau.de - Excellent daily news site - includes videos (in German)

Wiener Zeitung - Austrian newspaper.