Deutsch Lernen is a free Internet course which offers 10 introductory lessons for complete beginners and 24 German grammar lessons for more advanced learners. These are supplemented by a variety of interactive German language exercises, as well as an introduction to German language orthography. There are also two online German language tests to help you assess your proficiency and review what you have learned. The website also provides study tips to help you make effective progress, and features pages on German jokes and quotations to give learners some light relief.
Deutsche Welle is a German television and radio corporation that broadcasts German and other European news internationally. Their website features a range of free self-study German language courses to help learners improve their skills. Deutsch Interaktiv is an interactive course for complete beginners, while Radio D covers similar material in an audio format. The course Wieso Nicht caters to intermediate and more advanced learners and the Marktplatz series contains business language aimed at those traveling to Germany for work.
Transparent Language offers a variety of free German language learning resources, including a German Word of the Day feature which allows users to learn a new word on a daily basis, and a list of German survival phrases for complete beginners. The website also enables you to download a free copy of the Byki Express Language Software, which comes with at least 12 themed lists of German words to learn and practice in an innovative manner. The site also offers a German proficiency test to help you rate your skills and choose the level of course you need to follow.
If you are a complete beginner, Europa Pages offers a free basic German course with 11 structured lessons covering topics such as pronunciation, numbers and telling the time. The course includes audio tracks so that you can listen to the correct pronunciation of German words and phrases and improve your own mastery of the sounds. Where no audio is available, the course contains phonetic transcriptions of the pronunciation that give a good indication of how the words should sound.