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I'm interested in others' suggestions/recommendations for resources to help me acquire reading proficiency (of current math literature, as well as classic math texts) in German.

I realize that German has evolved as a language, so ideally, the resource(s) I'm looking for take that into account, or else perhaps I'll need a number of resources to accomplish such proficiency. I suspect I'll need to include multiple resources (in multiple forms) in my efforts to acquire the level of reading proficiency I'd like to have.

I do like "hard copy" material, at least in part, from which to study. But I'm also very open to suggested websites, multimedia packages, etc.

In part, I'd like to acquire reading proficiency in German to meet a degree requirement, but as a native English speaker, I would also like to be able to study directly from significant original German sources.

Finally, there's no doubt that a sound/solid reference/translation dictionary (or two or three!) will be indispensable, as well. Any recommendations for such will be greatly appreciated, keeping in mind that my aim is to be proficient in reading mathematically-oriented German literature (though I've no objections to expanding from this base!).

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    [Leo](http://dict.leo.org/) is a very good and mostly reliable online dictionary (German/English/French/Spanish/Italian/Chinese/Russian) I can only vouch for the first four and I'm rather happy with the results. Mathematical words are not covered very well, though.2011-06-19
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    There is also a new sister-forum exclusively for German: http://german.stackexchange.com/ - it is not exclusively for math-oriented German but there are many well qualified persons that are eager to answer your questions (me included :-)2011-06-21
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    There's this book by Schubert Topology https://g.co/kgs/rj3PnT. A friend gave it to me at Berkeley. I enjoyed reading it a little bit; and eventually passed the German language exam for the Ph d program at ucla... of course, i also took two semesters of german... and travelled to Germany...2018-08-10

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