September 2010
34 posts
Intensivskurse Over, Week Off, Semester Starts...
Hi all,
This weekend is the beginning of the main break this semester for IES students, we are off until Monday, October 4th. Yesterday (Friday) was the day of the Abschlusstest (final test) for the Deutsch Intensivskurse. The test lasted half an hour, and was composed of five texts with blanks. We had to fill these blanks with everything from adjective endings to articles to vocab words to...
Week Four
Hello everyone,
The last week or so has been really busy, though maybe it’s that we’re just getting into the swing of the program. The 25-30 minute commute between my Wohnung and IES or the Humboldt building where we have the Deutsch Intensives Kurse takes almost an hour out of my day, and that’s if I only go downtown and back once. It takes some getting used to compared to...
Hello all,
Today marks two weeks in Berlin. It’s hard to believe it’s been that short with everything I’ve done. Today was the beginning of week two of my Intense German course. I placed into the highest of the three groups, which shows that my 11 years of studying German has paid off. The Intensive Course has also been really great. I’ve understood just about everything...
End of the First Week
Hi all,
Sorry for not posting again on Wednesday, I got caught up in what has been a busy first week. I haven’t had many problems using the public transit to get to and from IES, though one day I got on the wrong tram (Strassenbahn) and had to quick figure out how to get back to Alexanderplatz. This week at IES has been full of orientation sessions (with more to come in the next two weeks)...
