How to look up information about Germany without knowing German:
There are many pages offering up-to-date information about Germany, e.g.:
www.thelocal.de offers Germany’s news in English
spiegel.de offers some articles in English
http://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/
is a multi-laguage Information about Germany, paid by our government,
no lies, but ... but good to start. ... . Many links too:
www.deutschland.de is an obvious choice - also in Russian and Arabic
And you can download the book "facts about Germany" for free :-)
Using google.de / google.at / google.ch you can decide to look for
websites from the respective country only. That can be VERY helpful!
But how to find an acurate statistical or scientific up-to-date information in English?
Strategies:
Example: How high is the birth rate / the divorce rate in Germany?
Obviously, those statistical data are likely to be found on the web at the UN, the EU a.o.;
an often quicker, mostly reliable and more often successful way is:
Use Wikipedia - maybe even in your first language, but the English version is usually best, as it offers about 3 million articles.
On a slow internet searching "wikipedia by Google" is often fastest:
- open Google (or another search engine, Germans use google for more than 90% of searches) , type: "birth rate" and "wikipedia".
In less than a second you see as first entry the link to the relevant article.
Go there, check the article and you will find links to international statistics too,
but now let us go to the box: “languages” (at the left side) and click on the language “Deutsch” - that’s German ;-)
The German wikipedia is the second biggest with nearly a million articles, in most cases you will find a relevant German article in German too. In our cexample the article is called “Geburtenziffer” (already a useful information).
If you know some German you may understand quite a lot!
(especially if you read about it in English/ your first language first!
An excellent way to train your reading comprehension!!!).
In the Text and at the end of it you will find links to other relevant articles and weblinks, often one to the “Statistisches Bundesamt” the “federal statistical office", whose page is German AND English.
http://www.destatis.de
In many cases you might go here first and search for relevant data (using the search option). Because they have a lot (maybe “too much”) of data about almost everything that can be counted, a first look at Wikipedia may help to get a useful overview and information about controversial positions, the state-paid statisticians at "destatis" may not want to write about ...
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There are many pages offering up-to-date information about Germany, e.g.:
www.thelocal.de offers Germany’s news in English
spiegel.de offers some articles in English
http://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/
is a multi-laguage Information about Germany, paid by our government,
no lies, but ... but good to start. ... . Many links too:
www.deutschland.de is an obvious choice - also in Russian and Arabic
And you can download the book "facts about Germany" for free :-)
Using google.de / google.at / google.ch you can decide to look for
websites from the respective country only. That can be VERY helpful!
But how to find an acurate statistical or scientific up-to-date information in English?
Strategies:
Example: How high is the birth rate / the divorce rate in Germany?
Obviously, those statistical data are likely to be found on the web at the UN, the EU a.o.;
an often quicker, mostly reliable and more often successful way is:
Use Wikipedia - maybe even in your first language, but the English version is usually best, as it offers about 3 million articles.
On a slow internet searching "wikipedia by Google" is often fastest:
- open Google (or another search engine, Germans use google for more than 90% of searches) , type: "birth rate" and "wikipedia".
In less than a second you see as first entry the link to the relevant article.
Go there, check the article and you will find links to international statistics too,
but now let us go to the box: “languages” (at the left side) and click on the language “Deutsch” - that’s German ;-)
The German wikipedia is the second biggest with nearly a million articles, in most cases you will find a relevant German article in German too. In our cexample the article is called “Geburtenziffer” (already a useful information).
If you know some German you may understand quite a lot!
(especially if you read about it in English/ your first language first!
An excellent way to train your reading comprehension!!!).
In the Text and at the end of it you will find links to other relevant articles and weblinks, often one to the “Statistisches Bundesamt” the “federal statistical office", whose page is German AND English.
http://www.destatis.de
In many cases you might go here first and search for relevant data (using the search option). Because they have a lot (maybe “too much”) of data about almost everything that can be counted, a first look at Wikipedia may help to get a useful overview and information about controversial positions, the state-paid statisticians at "destatis" may not want to write about ...
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