Test Your German Vocabulary Online

My new addiction: Vokabel.com. Don't be thrown off by the rickety, 90's-tastic look and feel to the Web site. It's actually an incredibly effective tool for learning new German words and bolstering your German vocabulary.

It's typing intensive because you actually have to type in the German version of the English word generated. (It's not multiple choice). So as with any typing it can, after a while, begin to strain das Handgelenk (wrist. I learned it on Vokabel).

Probably the worst of the stylistic downsides to Vokabel is the lack of an umlaut - you have to add "e" after whichever vowels you want to be umlauted. But that's fine by me because I don't have umlauted letters on my keyboard anyway.

I'm recommending this online German vocabulary test for one simple reason: it works. I learned new words yesterday that I found myself thinking about today, and even identified one in a book I'm reading in German.

So now test your German vocabulary online, and learn new German words here. Good luck!