My course mates and why we are learning German:

One great thing about DeutschAkademie is that you get to meet interesting people from all over the world! My course mates and I are from Argentina, Canada, Columbia, Croatia, India, Italy, Montenegro, Nepal, Spain, Turkey and the U.S. and our teacher is from Germany. One course mate is taking German lessons because she will be working as an au pair for a family in Vienna for the next year. Another friend is planning on staying in Austria for one year and hopes to study at an Austrian university in the future. One course mate has an Austrian partner and hopes to live in Vienna permanently in the future. For all of us, we will need to use German in our everyday lives, whether it’s for a year or an extended amount of time. While I also am motivated to learn German in order to go about my daily activities, I am also intrinsically motivated. I am from the U.S. and have German ancestry but the German language was not passed down from generation to generation. I hope I can create a new tradition in my family, and encourage other family members to learn the language or familiarize themselves with a few phrases. Maybe my DeutschAkademie course books and notes will find themselves being passed around at my family’s Christmas table this year!