Beyond yoUrself In Language Development

FYI: Holland Center and Morse are right next to each other on Van Buren St.

Monday:

Advanced Arabic             3:00- 3:50 pm      Holland Center

Conversational Arabic       4:00- 4:50 pm      Holland Center

Beginning Spanish          5:00-5:50 pm        Morse B207

Intermediate Japanese        5:00- 5:50pm     Morse B107

Intermediate Chinese          6:00- 6:50 pm    Morse A201

Tuesday:

All Levels Farsi            12:00- 12:50 pm      Morse A200

Beginning German           4:00- 4:50 pm      Morse B108

Beginning Japanese          6:00- 6:50 pm      Morse A201

Wednesday:

Beginning Arabic        4:00- 4:50 pm       Morse A2o2

Advanced Chinese       4:00- 4:50 pm      Morse A200

Intermediate Spanish        5:00- 5:50 pm  Morse B107

Intermediate Korean        5:00- 5:50 pm     Morse A202

All Levels Hebrew        6:00- 6:50 pm      Morse B107

All Levels Tagalog        6:00- 6:50 pm      Morse A201

Beginning Kazakh        6:30- 7:20 pm     Morse A202

Beginning Korean        7:00-  7:50 pm    Morse A201

Intermediate Arabic        7:00- 7:50 pm   Morse A101

Thursday: 

Intermediate French      4:00- 4:50    Morse A200

Conversational  French  4:00-4:50    TBA

Friday:

Beginning Chinese      9:00- 9:50 am      Morse A200

American Sign Language    2:00-2:50 pm      Morse A200

Intermediate Russian     4:00- 4:50 pm    Morse A200

All Levels Cantonese       5:00- 5:50 pm    Morse B107

Saturday: 

Beginning French    11:00- 11:50 am   Morse B107

Grüß Euch!

Gina Hamman und ich (Jennie McCulloch) sind die Lehrerinnen für deutsches BUILD dieses Semester. Willkommen!

Gina Hamman and I (Jennie McCulloch) are the German BUILD this semester. We meet in Morse 200 Fridays at 11:00am. All are welcome!

We will post information on what we have done in class as well as useful links. For starters, check out:

dict.leo.org  (an online dictionary)

During week one we covered basic introductions including age, languages spoken and previous travel experience. In our small group we had people who had lived in various countries.

Die Studenten haben in den folgenden Länder gewohnt:

  Volksrepublik China                   Brussel, Belgien

 Berlin, Deutschland                   Frankreich

Die Studenten sprechen  Chinesisch, Russisch, Italienisch, Franzoesisch, und Deutsch!

In Week Two we continued with introductions, and talked about the age, the place of birth, the profession and current location of various well-known German personages!

Here is a list of some phrases and vocabulary we used in class:

-Hast du Geschwister/ Haben Sie Geschwister?

Ich habe einen Bruder.

Ich habe eine Schwester.

-Wie alt ist er/ Wie alt ist sie?

Er ist…. Sie ist…

Die Eltern

Meine Mutter, mein Vater

Here are some links to videos of introductions, learning materials, and some music:

http://youtu.be/JoMqyJCc1yU (from the series Alles Gute)

http://youtu.be/9nPLZUMZ4OQ (a song about not knowing a girl’s name)

http://youtu.be/i2GaHyDSfmg (another song: Sag, wie heisst du)

Also, check out the movie Pina, playing now at Osio <<http://osiocinemas.com/>>.

Wim Wenders directed this film about the late German dancer/ choreographer Pina Bausch.

http://www.pina-film.de/de/  (you can also click on English in the upper-right corner).

There isn’t a lot of German in the movie, but listen for the Jahreszeiten, the seasons, in the beginning, and enjoy the amazing dancing and cinematography!

Bis nächstes Mal!

Hallo alle zusammen!

Thank you all so much for coming and making our class so well-attended and successful. Email me (Jesse) with any questions, comments, or suggestions: clearyjd@gmail.com

For HOMEFUN as they’re calling it these days, I’ve recorded myself reading through die Zahlen (the numbers), the dialogue between George and Mia, and vocabulary on parts of the face (I begin at the top left, work to the bottom, and begin again at the top right). Please download the mp3 files and repeat after me to practice each word. Read along with the handouts (also linked to in this post) so you can hear and visualize the words at once. Also study the advanced questions at the bottom of the das Gesicht handout and see what words you can recognize! Have FUN!

• Die Zahlen: Recording / Handout
• Dialogue between George and Mia: Recording / Handout
• Das Gesicht: Recording / Handout

Here’s what we covered today:

• The “ß” in German makes the sound “ss”
• We went over and acted out a dialogue between George and Mia using phrases to introduce yourself and request information from others including what someone’s name is, where they’re from, and where they live:
• Wie heißt du? (Ich heiße Jesse!)
• Woher kommst du? (Ich komme aus Kentucky!)
• Wo wohnst du? (Ich wohne in Monterey!)
• We discussed the verb heißen (to be called) in all its different present tense conjugations, along with personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.):
• ich heiße (I am called)
• du heißt (you are called) informal, singular
• er/sie/es heißt (he/she/it is called)
• wir heißen (we are called)
• ihr heißt (you are called) informal, plural
• sie heißen (they are called)
• Sie heißen (you are called) formal, singular and plural
• We discussed the three singular articles in German and the one plural article, noting that all nouns in German carry an article and that all nouns in plural form carry the same article:
• der (masculine)
• die (feminine)
• das (neuter)
• die (plural)
• We went over die Zahlen, the numbers, emphasizing eins through zehn and touching on elf through zwanzig:
• 1 eins, 2 zwei, 3 drei, 4 vier, 5 fünf, 6 sechs, 7 sieben, 8 acht, 9 neun, 10 zehn
• 11 elf, 12 zwölf, 13 dreizehn, 14 vierzehn, 15 fünfzehn, 16 sechzehn, 17 siebzehn, 18 achtzehn, 19 neunzehn, 20 zwanzig
• We also used the phrase ich habe _______ in groups to express having a certain number of an object, be it drei Kerzen or zehn Zehen. Look at your handout to practice these vocabulary words. =]
• Finally, I handed out a vocabulary sheet with das Gesicht, the face.