Transcription Exercises in German

Our transcription program can check the text you enter to see if it’s correct. To test your work, click on the “Review Entry” button. Words with errors will be marked in red. The program will ignore punctuation, but is case sensitive. It will also show where you have forgotten a word (…) and where there ought to be a line break (¶).

When you get stuck on a transcription, the system can also give hints or show you the correct transcription for a single word. Click on the corresponding button and then hoover the cursor over the word you want to know more about.

The transcription exercises follow the general guideliens for transcriptions that you can find in the Tutorial section. In Resources, there’s a printable PDF version. Exceptions to the general rules, arising from the particularities of individual scripts, are noted in the exercise where they appear.