Student Profile

This course is designed for beginners with basic knowledge of German.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will continue to develop and expand basic competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

• navigate various everyday situations (in a German-speaking environment) and engage in simple conversations.
• Successfully use reading strategies to understand short newspaper articles and literary texts.
• write short texts on various topics and revise and correct them independently.
• understand, in some detail, features of conversations and lectures dealing with familiar topics.
  
  

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