Have you been to see all the interesting sites in Munich already? Well if you have and still want to see more why not hop on a train to Salzburg. The deutschacademie is very close to the Hauptbahnhof anyway and this makes it very ideal to take an afternoon after classes to visit this wonderful city. You will get the opportunity to  see the Festung & Schlösser, the beautiful Mirabell gardens, the Mozart Geburtshaus (you will learn about him during you deutsch course) Salzburg is closely associated Mozart and his world famous compositions.Thats not all you can do and see  lots more. If you are interested you could even get to do the Sound of Music Tour.

Gestern war der erste Test für meine besseres Deutsch nach dem besuch des August Kurses: Wir hatten die erste Deutsch stunde in der FH! Und was soll ich sagen? Ich konnte glänzen! Wir mussten aus vier vorgegebenen Begriffen eine Geschichte schreiben. VIELEN DANK DEUTSCHKURS! Ich war so gut!!!!

Endlich war es soweit, ich bin am Oktoberfest. Ich hatte schon so viel daruber gehört, aber ich hatte keine Vorstellung, war verrückt es hier zugeht. Ich war im Hofbräuzelt am frühen Nachmittag. Es war so voll und so laut! Ich hatte Glück und erkämpfte einen Platz bmit meinem Freund an einem Tisch mit einem echten Münchne. Das war so lustig, wir hatten so viel Spaß! Nachher liessen wir uns uber das Festgelände schieben, so viele Besucher waren  unterwegs. Jetzt weiß ich auch warum: ein extra Oktoberfest tag am 4. Oktober! Nächstes jahr komme ich sicher wieder.

I am sure I have told you about my teriffic classmates and my teacher who never fail to make a day in class so interesting. You always go home after class feeling you have made the right choice.

One of my most memorable classes at the Deutschakademie was the one we had to learn about how to express ourselves when we went to the doctor in german. I mean nothing is worse than having to go to the doctor and not be able to tell them how you feel. But back to why I was so impressend with the class –  not only did we learn the words associated with sickness but we had to practice so many dialogues  in this regard that now it just comes natural to me. I no longer have to pause and think. On Monday my boyfriend was so impressed with me when we where at the doctor and it was the first time that he did not have to translate any word for me. So once again I have to say thank you Deutschakademie.

Have you ever wanted to go to a place either in Germany or Austria and just don’t know how to get there? You ask for directions and some nice guy gives it to you in German and you just have no clue what he is  saying. Or have you ever wanted to give directions to a german speaking person and you just don’t know what to do? If you have been in this dilema  here are a few words for giving directions. I hope it is useful for you :). If not then why not join me at the Deutschakademie where you will get to learn so much more.

Hi guys am back but first I have apologise for the long abscence. After two years of studying here in Austria I was beginning to miss my family and so I decided it was time to visit them. I must say I had a good time. However, today I want to tell you about housing in german speaking countires. When I first came to Austria I lived in the Studentenheim. Later I decided to get an apartment in the city as I wanted to experience life in the city. This proved to be difficult because I was not equiped with the language necessary for getting myself an apartment. Anyway to cut a long story short I have since learnt a lot of words and today I will share some with you. Zimmer – Room, Miete – Rent, Vermieter – Landlord,  vermietete Wohnungen – let apartments, vier Wohnungen enthalten, short of housing -knapp an Wohnungen, Storage room  – der Abstellraum.

I must admit I was a bit nervous when I first came to the deutschakademie. You see we are a mixed class from different nations and varying age groups. However there was no need for my nervousness as not only do i have a wonderful teacher who immediately made me feel comfortable and gives me every opportunity to practice my deutsch. I aslo have the most wonderful classmates. Never have I seen such a more functional group where people take time to help one another and no one gets impatient when someone is a bit slow to understand. Every other day we  go for coffee to one of the very many cafes near the deutschakademie were we practice more of the deutsch by speaking it amongst ourselves. I appluade the deutschakademie for grouping students so well. Now I have friends from nine different countries. I can always go to Greece and know that Eva will be there to show me around for example. Anna from Brazil is the one that showed me all the shopping wonderplaces in Munich.

While still on the topic of money – have you ever been to a bank in a german speaking country just didnt know how to explain what you want. Well you are not the only one :) it has happened to me several times. As a result one of the things I made quite sure my at the deutschakademie thaught me were the words to use for financial transactions. He gave me six of these :überweisen -transferabheben – withdraweinzahlen – depositkündigen – close an accounteröffnen – open an accountüberziehen -overdraft

I like the books used at the Deutschakademie. I find them very interesting as you do not only learn german gramma but also the culture, a bit of history and of course my hobby shopping. Serkan my teacher also tells us a lot about the history and tradition. At least 15 minutes is dedicated every lesson only for this purpose. One of such lessons was about the money in Europe and I found it very educative as I have been leaving in Austria for about two years and didnot even notice. So did you know that the Euro notes in all the European union countries are the same but not the coins. Sie haben zwar die gleiche Zahlenseite, aber auf den Rückseite haben sie unterschiedliche Motive.The German one and two Euro coins for example has the Bundesadler whereas the Austrian one Euro coin has the head of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And what do you think is on the Austrian two Euro coin? :) Guess! and while you are still guessing please take a look and compare all the other coins its very interesting.