Am Donnerstag findet wieder unser Stammtisch statt! Kommt zum “Brauhaus Südstern” (U7, Südstern) und bringt eure Freunde mit! Wir treffen uns um 20:15 Uhr in der gemütlichen Bar “Brauhaus Südstern”. Hier können wir zusammen sitzen, etwas essen und trinken, uns vom Deutschkurs in Berlin erzählen und neue Freunde finden.

Wir sehen uns am Donnerstag, 25. April 2013 :)!

On Thursdaywe have our next Get Together in Berlin! Come to “Brauhaus Südstern” (U7, Südstern) and bring your friends! We meet at 8:15 p.m. in the nice bar “Brauhaus Südstern”. Here we can sit together, have something to eat and drink, tell us about our German course in Berlin and find new friends.

We see you on Thursday, april 25th 2013!

(Scroll down for information in english)

Am Freitag, den 26.04.13 findet unser nächstes Kulturprogramm statt. Wir machen einen schönen Stadtspaziergang und schauen uns den Potsdamer Platz, das Holocaust Mahnmal, das Brandenburger Tor und den Reichstag an.

Bitte tragt euch auf der Liste im Büro ein!

Treffpunkt 1     15 Uhr vor der Sprachschule am Wittenbergplatz (Bayreuther Str. 8)
Treffpunkt 2     15:30 Uhr am Potsdamer Platz vor Balzac Coffee (Potsdamer Platz 10)

S+U Potsdamer Platz (vor Balzac)

S1, S2, S25, U2                                                                                                                

Bus M41, M48, M85, 200

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On Friday, april 26th our next Cultural Program is taking place. We are going to do a little walking trip through downtown, starting at the Potsdamer Platz, including the monument of the Holocaust, the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Parliament.

Please sign up on the list in the office!

Meeting point 1           3 p.m. in front of DeutschAkademie Wittenbergplatz (Bayreuther Str. 8)
Meeting point 2           3.30 p.m. in front of Balzac Coffee at Potsdamer Platz (Potsdamer Platz 10)

S+U Potsdamer Platz (vor Balzac)

S1, S2, S25, U2                                                                                                                

Bus M41, M48, M85, 200

Whether good or bad, every experience has an end to it. So as I pen down my thoughts today, there are a few things that I need to mention.

To start off, the last day of my Intensive Deutsch course!!! We did not learn much on this day as all of us had plans to socialize. After summarizing the key grammatical concepts from the lectures, we wanted to head for a bar whereby we could grab a corner and exchange thoughts on topics that we had never discussed during our regular classes. Being a Thursday evening, not many of us had the time to travel far off as most of us had to go to work next morning. Hence, we wanted to search for a bar at Wittenberg Platz itself. After having spent some time over unsuccessful attempts, we ended up landing at an Italian diner as this was the only place in the locality that could offer us a table sufficiently large enough to accommodate 7 of us (Actually there were 10 of us in class but 3 chose to head home for an early dinner).Our facilitator Samantha was also accompanying us and thus we were feeling quite secured as she could always sort out the language incompatibilities, in case of any.

Having taken a corner in the restaurant, the waiter approached and offered us the menu cards. The cards were in German and he proposed to get us English versions of the same. None of us objected as we all like to be in our comfort zones and not having the need to struggle over a menu card is surely comfortable. In the meanwhile, most of us chose to flip through some of the pages to have a glance of what was on offer. To our surprise, we could understand all that was in it. 99% of the dishes with their descriptions along with their availability and special offer specifications!!! Wow, we never realized that our level of Deutsch had improved so drastically.

Instantly all of us thanked Samantha for her hard work and her perseverance that had helped us gain so tremendously from the course. Post this we spent some good number of hours sharing personal experiences which only strengthened our bonds of friendship that had developed over the past four weeks.

Nextly, as I write my last blog for Deutsch Akademie, I would like to thank the administration for having given me the opportunity to write and share my thoughts. This platform has been really helpful in sharing thoughts and views and also exchanging information.

Last, but not the least, I would like to thank all the readers for spending their precious time on my expression of thoughts. Hopefully you have all had a good read…

Whether good or bad, every experience has an end to it. So as I pen down my thoughts today, there are a few things that I need to mention.

To start off, the last day of my Intensive Deutsch course!!! We did not learn much on this day as all of us had plans to socialize. After summarizing the key grammatical concepts from the lectures, we wanted to head for a bar whereby we could grab a corner and exchange thoughts on topics that we had never discussed during our regular classes. Being a Thursday evening, not many of us had the time to travel far off as most of us had to go to work next morning. Hence, we wanted to search for a bar at Wittenberg Platz itself. After having spent some time over unsuccessful attempts, we ended up landing at an Italian diner as this was the only place in the locality that could offer us a table sufficiently large enough to accommodate 7 of us (Actually there were 10 of us in class but 3 chose to head home for an early dinner).Our facilitator Samantha was also accompanying us and thus we were feeling quite secured as she could always sort out the language incompatibilities, in case of any.

Having taken a corner in the restaurant, the waiter approached and offered us the menu cards. The cards were in German and he proposed to get us English versions of the same. None of us objected as we all like to be in our comfort zones and not having the need to struggle over a menu card is surely comfortable. In the meanwhile, most of us chose to flip through some of the pages to have a glance of what was on offer. To our surprise, we could understand all that was in it. 99% of the dishes with their descriptions along with their availability and special offer specifications!!! Wow, we never realized that our level of Deutsch had improved so drastically.

Instantly all of us thanked Samantha for her hard work and her perseverance that had helped us gain so tremendously from the course. Post this we spent some good number of hours sharing personal experiences which only strengthened our bonds of friendship that had developed over the past four weeks.

Nextly, as I write my last blog for Deutsch Akademie, I would like to thank the administration for having given me the opportunity to write and share my thoughts. This platform has been really helpful in sharing thoughts and views and also exchanging information.

Last, but not the least, I would like to thank all the readers for spending their precious time on my expression of thoughts. Hopefully you have all had a good read…

It is commonly said…”Make hay while the sun shines”!!!After a long and cold winter, when the sun chose to show us its face, I along with some of my friends wanted to explore the outskirts of Berlin. Having heard good things about it, we were really excited to travel to as many places as possible. Hence on one weekend, we started early in the morning and set out towards the city of Potsdam.

A few stations prior to our destination was a place called Wannsee…The name appealed to us so much that we planned to get down and check a few places around. Anyways nothing was conflicting with our goal of aimless wandering. As we set out to observe the shiny crystals of snow, we came across scenic beauty which we had not thought of.

Pure white snow covered the ground completely as we made our way through the canopy towards the nearest water body (lake or river, we could not figure out). The calm and serene environment was making the whole setting an enchanting spectacle.

We were so lost in the beauty of the surroundings that we eventually forgot to make our way to Potsdam. May be next time it would be Potsdam, is what we thought. I am sharing some pictures here for all of you to take a look at. Certainly in my opinion, countryside surpasses the city on many parameters.