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Media Library – Self-Study Centre
The Media Library serves as Humboldt’s self-learning centre for students and staff to develop their language skills, supporting autonomous as well as assisted language learning in a rich educational environment. The Media Library offers a wide-ranging collection of modern teaching and learning materials for a large number of languages, which also emphasise their respective regional and cultural characteristics.
Media collection
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Language teaching and learning materials Dictionaries, reference materials, general and discipline-specific textbooks and workbooks and grammar books
Self-study materials
Original and bilingual literature, comics and graphic novels
Language games -
Audiovisual materials Audio books, listening games, listening comprehension exercises from textbooks
Films, series and documentaries in the original with subtitles in the target language if available -
Language-learning software Educational software for a variety of languages available at selected workstations
Learning aids for language-test preparation (e.g. TOEFEL exam)
License for Arabic-learning software -
Materials for language-test preparation Self-study guides, CDs, language-learning software and materials selected by our teachers to support language-exam preparation (e.g. UNIcert®)
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Newspapers and magazines An assortment of weekly newspapers and other periodicals
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Languages and levels By and large, our collection contains media related to the languages taught at the Language Centre (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish), but other languages (from Albanian to Zulu) are also represented, from A1 to C2 levels
Dictionaries, reference materials, general and discipline-specific textbooks and workbooks and grammar booksOnline catalogue
- Online catalogue of Media Library
(Internal HU access only)
Services
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Tours Tours are available for international students and language-course participants (only by appointment, please)
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Available facilities Individual and group workspaces
Seating areas for tandem partners
Computer workstations (some with language-learning software)
Seating areas for international TV programmes via satellite
Film-viewing facilities (also for small groups) -
Consultation/Online Course Room In our online Moodle course room "Mediothek - Selbstlernzentrum", you can find tips and ideas for learning languages autonomously.
The password is: Willkommen
Our Mediothek employees are also happy to provide you with teaching and learning materials in person.
Regulations and guidelines
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In-house use only
Materials can only be used on-site.
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Lockers
Please make sure to bring a padlock with you, as you are required to leave jackets and bags in the lockers provided in front of the Foreign Language Library and Media Library entrance.
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Regulations on the use of the Media Library (PDF, in German)