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The German grammar INTERMATIK incorporates a special navigation system, as well as sound and video clips. You will find information on the technical requirements for INTERMATIK, solutions to the most common problems associated with using the grammar, and instructions on how to type "umlauts" (special German characters) on either the Macintosh or Windows side on this page.
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Welcome to INTERMATIK, a web-based intermediate German grammar review. This web-based grammar will allow you to read concise, easy-to-follow grammar explanations, to hear all examples spoken by a native speaker and to do your exercises right on the computer. Appropriate feedback for all of your tasks is included in the web-site. This is an exciting new tool in the teaching of grammar and we are looking forward to your feedback. If you have problems with the grammar, please consult your classroom teacher or write to: Franziska Lys at flys@northwestern.edu |
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You can access the INTERMATIK site either on a McIntosh or an IBM compatible computer.
As a student of German 102, you need to register in order to have access to the grammar. You can register from any computer on campus. Once you are registered, the site can be used from computer stations on or off campus.
The grammar will track all of the work you are doing. It is therefore important, that you always log on with your name and password. The exercise scores and the answers of your free response exercises will be stored under the name with which you logged on. As an outside person, you may log on as a guest. In this case, your work will not be tracked. If you are denied access to the grammar, then contact: Franziska Lys at flys@northwestern.edu |
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There are software requirements for the INTERMATIK site. Computers in Public
Labs Computers
in dorms or at home If your browser does not have the appropriate plug-ins, it will provide you with a link to download the appropriate software. The two plug-ins you will need (they are usually stored in the "plug-in" folder in your Explorer or Netscape folder) are: Plug-ins: Quicktime and Flash 5 Alternatively, you can also get the two plug-ins from the following web-sites: Quicktime: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ |
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Below are some general instructions on how to make an accented character on a MacIntosh, followed by a table summarizing ways to make other characters in the same manner. You may wish to print this page for facilitated reference while using INTERMATIK. To illustrate how accents may be produced in the Mac OS, let us trace through an example of how to produce the character ü. To produce ü, you have to use the sequence ([option] + [u], then "u"). That means you hold (and continue to hold) the key labeled "option" while you then press the "u" key and let go. Then you type the letter "u" normally. To have an umlaut to an uppercase letter, you would follow the same process of holding down the option key and pressing the "u" key, but you would then have to type a capital letter (hold the option key down and type the letter you want to capitalize). Summarized below are accents encountered in German, along with the shortcuts to produce them in Mac OS.
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Below are some general instructions on how to make an accented character on your PC, followed by a table summarizing ways to make other characters in the same manner. You may wish to print this page for facilitated reference while using INTERMATIK. To illustrate how accents may be produced in the Mac OS, let us trace through an example of how to produce the character ü. To produce ü, you have to use the sequence ( [Alt] + 252 ). That means that you must hold (and continue to hold) the key labeled "Alt" while you then type in the number 252 on your numeric keypad. Then, when you let go of the "Alt" key, the letter ü should appear. NOTE 1 Summarized below are accents encountered in German, along with the shortcuts to produce them on your PC.
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