GERM-126 First Level German I (3)

Offered as part of the AU Abroad program in Berlin, this course introduces the basic German language structures. Students develop communicative competencies in reading, listening, speaking, and writing, and engage in simple conversations in settings such as shopping or restaurants, and to speak in simple past tense. Students become familiar with listening comprehension strategies and develop the ability to extract sociocultural information from simple texts, accompanied by exercises concerning phonetic particularities in communicative context.