I believe most of the students who learn german has a purpose to do it. Some may want to study here, and some may want to have a job here. Learning how to express our futute plan or dreamjob is necessary. In the new unit, we learned to describe some jobs and what we want to do. Besides, we also learned to describe body parts, like “head, nose, belly, leg “etc. Also we learned when someone is sick, how to describe their the feelings, like “kopfschmerzen” means “headache”, and how to buy the medicine in the clinic. This is very useful, when getting to a new country, there might be a lot of things that we cannot get used to, for example, the weathe, environment, food ,etc. When man gets sick, then we need to go to doctor to describe it and then can be treated properly. Like once when my eyes feel a bit hurt, then I went to the “Apotheke” to ask for advice, so if I were able to describe hwo l feel, “Augenschmerzen”, then the doctor will immediatly understand and giving me advices.

Besides learning how to ask for help, it’s also important to know how to describe a city, in this way, when germans are curious my own country, I would be able to tell him/her my city and that will be good topic to start a conversation with locals. Some daily words are quite useful, like “Spielplatz, Schule, Bibliothek” etc. My classmates are coming from different countries, some from eastern Europe, Britain, south Korea and China. During the class, when we talk about our own country, we can find a lot different things which are quite interesting. We talk about the local food market, architecture by using the vocabulary we have learnt today. We also learning how to describe what we live in munich, like our neighborhood, metro stations etc. Time goes by very quick when you enjoy the class, I think l have learnt a lot today! Our homework is to write a short articles about our neighborhood in munich, for a basic level student, I think it s a big challenge, but you never make progress without challenge, isn’t it ?

Today is the second week of A1.2 class, all girls are getting familiar with each other during group work. I am very happy to meet all them. In today’s class we learned emergency help in elevator by learning a specific situation. Actually it is very helpful because nowadays, elevators are almost everywhere and it’s possible that the elevator stucks and you need to ask for help. When you are in Germany and unfornately meet the situation, then what should you do? We learned that we can use “Der Aufzug steckt fest.”(The elevator stucks) and “Wir haben ein Problem, wir brauchen Ihre Hilfe. (We have a problem here, we need your help.) Those expressions actually are very useful because sometimes elevator stuck in any country, after learning how to express your problem and ask for help is definitely a must in daily life. And those two expressions are although simple sentence, but it’s one kind of basic sentence structure in German. Fully master those above will help us to enhance our german language skills.

Today we have a different teacher in class, at the begining, girls are guessing who will be our teacher and how he/she will be. But it turns out we are pretty lucky to have another good teacher. Ms Celeste is also a nice and patient lady who always smiling and be happy to answer our questions in class. We reviewed our lessons last week and corrected our homework, but actually today’s the speech day for new president in America and all of us are quite curious about his speech and the news. Instead of telling us not to do this, Ms Celeste started to discuss with us too and tried to let us learning German expressions at discussion. I think it’s a very good way to distract students of their phone and try to learn language out of daily life. Knowledge is not only can be learned in books, I was impressed the teaching way here, learning is not repeating what we have in book, it is flexible and make us learn by heart.

This is the third day I’m learning at DeutschAkademie. I slowly develop good relationships with my classmates and we have a certain group for group working which happens a lot in class. We have five girls in class from all over the world, we have Europeans and Asians. But it seems we don’t have problems in communicating because everyone can speak English and we also try to communicate in German to enhance our oral German.

In today’s class, at the beginning, our teacher prepared some learning cards to help us to reviewed what we’ve learnt yesterday, we have three papers, on each it’s a room and there are things in the room which needs us to write down their names. Like in “das Zimmer”, there is “das Sofa”, “der Stuhl”, “der Tisch”, etc. those expressions are pretty basic but important. In English, we don’t  identify the gender of words, but in German we do. So we’re told to memorize words with their articles which is difficult in the beginning but will get easier for the future learning. Thank you teacher for giving such good learning method.

This is the second day of learning, we repeat what we have learnt the day before, like how to search a place you want to go, how to express directions, such as “turn left” and “turn right” in german. I found it very useful because for a newcomer in a city, the most difficult thing is to find where to go and if you don’t know how to ask people, it will just get more difficult to find the way.

We also learned how to ask politely, for example, ”können Sie mir helfen?”. It’s like in english ”Could you help me ?”, but surely, asking politely is necessary, for those people who helped you, we should say ”Danke “.It is normal when people here doesn’t know how to go to the place you want, but we should still appreciate their effort, for this situation we could say “Trotzdem: Dankeschön.”I really like those useful expressions we learned in class, sometimes our teacher will explain us some daily expressions and answer our questions in learning patiently.

Hello, my name is Yang Xing Yue, you can call me Chelsea, I come from China. I am happy to learn German in DeutschAkademie in munich, I have been in this city for a week already. I am here to visit my friends and will stay here for more than a month, so l think ”Why not enhancing my german skills when living here?”. And luckily l found DeutschAkademie online, and now I am here!

This is my first day learning in DeutschAkademie. Before the class, I was a bit nervous, how would the teacher be? Is he/she a patient teacher? Will l understand when they use german to teach?

But after meeting the teacher and having a short conversation, I then feel less nervous. As a A1.2 student, l can understand the greetings and some basic vocabulary, but if teacher speaks too fast without explaination, l would not be able to understand. Luckily our teacher is a very friendly and patient teacher, she has a talent of body language which makes it easier to understand at her class.

Since most students of us learned A1.1 long time ago, l, by myself, was 2 years ago. I barely remember anything except “Guten Tag”. After knowing basic background of us, she didn’t hurry to teach new lessons, but try to help us to repeat what we have learned in A1.1. It is very helpful for us to pick up the words and grammar that we’ve already forgot. I can slowly can catch up with her speed and context after recalling what l have learnt before.

During the classes, we also play some games to help us with memorizing new vocabularies. For example, today we played hangman game and it was a lot of fun. Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters, within a certain number of guesses. We played this game with the partner who doesn’t speak the same native language, so we had to practice our German. This game really helped me to learn new vocabularies and it was a good way to relax and have some fun after a long day. I am looking forward to play it again next time.

Since relaxing is as important as studying, I visited a town in Bavaria called Landshut last week. It is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany, belonging to both Eastern and Southern Bavaria. The town is popularly known for the Landshuter Hochzeit (Landshut Wedding), a full-tilt medieval festival. It is a small town with a lot of historical architectures. You can really feel that you are out of the busy city. Thus it is really good for weekend trip, just to relax and escape from the city.There is also a small city center and the cafes and restaurants are really pretty and cozy. I really recommend everyone to visit.

Yesterday we had a test to check our own progress and how much we learnt during this course. During the last weeks, we covered a lot of grammars, vocabularies and conversational phrases. Our teacher gave us a lot of handouts and exercises to practice the grammar and I think they were extremely helpful. So that we always had time to digest the new knowledge and actually put them into practice. I think it was a really good idea to have a test after two weeks because I was able to see my strengths and weaknesses. Also it made me to revise all the lessons and new vocabularies. After the test, I realized how much progress I made in the past two weeks and I was really proud of myself.