Monthly Archives: Juni 2012

Zoo in Berlin

One thing that you should definitely visit in Berlin is Zoo. He is ranged among top 10 zoos in the world. The most famous zoos in the world are located in Toronto, Singapore, San Diego. The biggest in Europe is Berlin’s and after comes Vienna’s Schonbrunner and French Beauval Zoo. Today in Berlin zoo lives about 17 727 animals (1571 sorts) and 7.629 animals (865 sorts) in Tierpark.
Berlin Zoo is located near the west side of Tiergarten, the biggest and the most famous park in Berlin, close to Zoologischegarten U-bahn station.
First grand opening was in 1844, and during the Second World War, Zoo was completely destroyed, just 91 animals survived… After that is reconstructed and today it is one of the most beautiful attractions in town.
This place is also famous his endangered species: Giant Panda Bao Bao who firstly came in East part of Berlin in 1980 as a 2 years old gift from Chinese government. You can see him rolling down on the ground on his back and eating bamboo. This amazing scene you can see just in 3 zoo in Europe, and in few more in the world.
During the last years, in Zoo were born after 30 years the first polar bears, and this was a big attraction! His name was Knut, he was like a toy, completely white with his eyes like small buttons, but he was sick, and he died when he was 5 years old.
There’s also too many others animals: gorila, anteater, rhino, also red-legged seriema (bird) king vulture, grey wolf, tayra and lot of others.

European NY

Hello my dear new friends and welcome to Berlin!  I hope that you are having a good time here, that everything is going well!! I hope that you have already done your first city tour and that you like the city!! If not, I’m giving you advice to look in any Starbucks for a free city map.This map is actually advertizing free city tour, so all info regarding the tour you can find on this map.I took this tour and guide was awesome so I can really recommended it.
As you can see, Berlin is city full of different vibrations- old Western and Eastern, and today city of freedom, city of hipsters, city where the fashion is out of rules and orders!! I was shocked with too many people with dirty clothes and hair like there’s no bathrooms and hairdressers, drinking beer on the streets and U-bahns, and walking with the street’s dogs I was like: ‘’Mama mia, save me’’!!
Later on, actually after 6 months living here, I feel better now, but I still repeat the sentence: ‘’… and all this cultural schock that can attack you when you go down in the Berlin’s subway…. ‘’ Actually, the last photo I saw on facebook was a 50 years old naked guy with a beer in his hand, seating in the u-bahn so relaxed like he was just going home after working day. This was very bizarre.
The most representative places where you can see this unique spirit of modern Berlin are around U-bahn Warsauerstrasse, Squats all painted in graffiti, with strange people with heavily pierced on their bodies or people with three different haircoulours wearing two different shoes!
There’s some people who don’t like them at all, and there’s no hope that they will change their opinion

My advices

As a professor of French and Latin and also student auf Deutcsh, I have already developed some methods of learning one language, so I can give you some advices:
The most important is to learn and practice by yourself, on the first place this means to take a look on your notes few hours every day after class and to do homework. Good grammar base is important for speak language properly, so when you finish your homework, go online and find free grammar exercises, and be in a rush for a higher score.
Also you need to be motivated, to find the text in German that you are interested in: articles, books and newspapers, and even if you don’t understand it’s important just to try. Internet is a gold treasure for learning foreign languages.
Good idea is to make your own vocabulary, take a look around you, find the first theme and then write all the words coming to your mind in that moment- for example let’s take food as a theme, and start writing all associating words: drinks, fruits… continue with the recepies- cooking, baking, than in the restaurant- how to order, menu… Also you need to know that the best method of learning words is by repeating, so after writing, you cover your list and try to repeat.
Finally, most important is to be free in conversation, not to get scared that you will be wrong, it’s better to say even if that is wrong than not to say and not to practice.

Welcome to DeutschAkademie!!

Hello! My name is Ana and I’m your new blogger. I speak 5 languages and I’ve started to learn German this year. I’ve finished at the Faculty of Philology so I would like to share my experience with you. I have passed through a lot of language schools and seen different methods of teaching and different profiles of students, so I think that I can tell you that we all have chosen a good one.
Firstly, Deutschakademie has a good price 205e for 4 weeks intensive course. Location is also good.
DeutschAkademie has a reputation of school attracting usually motivated students. Studyng with these young people is always interesting, nevertheless the atmosphere is balanced between work and relaxation.
The professor is well organized and serious when we are working but doesn’t have the profile of one of those who the students are afraid of, so this is an ideal mix of quiet relaxed atmosphere and hard work. She gives good explanations, so we are making a good gramatic base with lots of examples, and that’s really important to speak a language properly. The books that we use are a good choice, and the vocabulary that we are passing is according with languages standards for one level.