Hello everybody! And firs of all hello the new “students” of Deutsch Akademie! At the moment I learn deutsch in 1B level, and just now I downloaded electronic book , which is presented by Deutsch Akademie . And I can really recommend you this book! It is really very good, especially for those people who start learning deutsch and want to do it faster! There you will find big useful dictionary with good explanations and also you will find here different questions and also the answers, which you can use NOW in Munich!

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.

Part of the reason why I did the deutsch course at deutschakademie was so that I could learn  and master the Präteritum. I was not dissapointed. You see included in my tourism course at my Uni is a german language class every week and last semester I am ashamed to say I failed the test on präteritum big time:(. Anyway my point -my teacher at my university will be very happy with me this semester and to prove  it I just completed this exercise from my book and for the first time my friend did not have to correct me. Its a story about Elisabeth and Heinz KonsalikSie waren beide arm. Sie heiateten 1949. Er heiß damals Heinz Günther, war 28 Jahre alt, schickte Manuskripte an Verlage und bekam sie alle wieder zurück. Sie war Lehrerin. Von ihren 236 DM im Monat lebten sie beide. Mit seinem Besteller ‘Der Arzt von Stalingrad’ Wurde sie reich. Das Geld machte ihn glücklich, sie nicht. Er verleiß sie 1991 nach 43 Jahren Ehe. Sie die Villa und 28 500 DM pro Monat