Purposes: The projects encourage you to use the language more independently and creatively, and to customize your experience of the language and culture to your own interests, knowledge and circumstances.
The "Einkaufen u. Geschenke - Shopping & Gifts" project has several particular purposes; they are listed in the project description, and are reflected in the scoring guide.
Websites for This Project (links last checked 23 January, 2012)
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Karstadt Kaufhaus
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Major German department store
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Quelle
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Major German department store
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Specialized websites for this project - see also the links on the course website
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Julius Meinl
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Austrian supplier of coffee, tea, chocolate, accessories, posters, gifts, etc.
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has a North American outlet shipper
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| Halloren Chocolate Company |
Bills itself as "Deutschlands älteste Schokoladenfabrik
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| Schokolade.de |
"alles rund um die Schokolade" - everything having to do with chocolate
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| Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen |
Makers of Meissen fine porcelain - in the 18th Century an addiction of kings and a hotbed of high-tech R&D
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| Christkindlmarkt in Innsbruck |
Christmas Market, with plenty of cultural information, too
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search on "Christkindlmarkt" to find many more such
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| Interbett |
European-style bedding, including those comfy down quilts (Daundecken)
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| Bavarian Superstore |
Bavarian folk clothing and gifts
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Search on "Tracht" and regional or country names to find similar sites and also descriptions of customs
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Güde Knives & Cutlery - Solingen
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High-quality knives (cooking, etc.) made in Solingen, the traditional center of knife manufactury
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For further sites, search on "Solingen" and "Messer"
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Fissler cooking implements
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Austrian supplier of high-end kitchen items and cutlery
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Der Feinschmecker Gourmet-Shop (Hamburg)
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cooking equipment, books, foods, gift ideas, restaurant guide
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Feinschmecker = gourmet ("fine-taster")
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Waffen Koch Jagd & Schießsport Center
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Hunter and shooting store; has links to traditional clothing items
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May offend because of weapons and animal issues; still, a good place to learn about the great difference between hunting there and here.
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angelmeister.de
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fishing equipment
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angeln= fish (for sport)
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stollenwerk24.de
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shipper of fishing equipment
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uhren-schmuck.de
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portal site for watches & jewelry
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Loden-Frey
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Traditional costumes, but also much else in the way of fashion
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Loden is high-quality, tightly-woven wool
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Trachten und Ledermode Sinnhofer
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Folk dress in Austria
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| Bayerwari |
Bavarian folk dress (dirndls, etc.)
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| romantic-Deutschland |
Wide range of resources for lovers
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Some racy content, as one would expect; the site has some link problems that were not there in earlier years.
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Specialized Language Resources
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The German "Pitty-pat Goes Your Little Heart" site
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The whole range, including help writing those sweet little nothings, like poems (look for "Gedichte" in the menus) to go along with the gift.
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The site's German name is "Herzklopfen," or "Heart-throb," but they don't mean it's a site about "hunks"
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