[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Re: German at Noisebridge?

Christie Dudley longobord at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 20:09:01 UTC 2009


So I've been talking to my friend Charlotte who is a German language
professional (you might have noticed Lee making interesting tools for her
translation business) and she seems agreeable for the natural language thing
that we've been talking about.

So whatcha guys think?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Charlotte" <powerfrau99 at yahoo.com>
Date: Apr 16, 2009 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: German at Noisebridge?
To: "Christie Dudley" <longobord at gmail.com>


Hi Christie,

Thanks for asking about building a German group.

Here are my initial thoughts on the topic. In general, I believe that people
learn well by playing with the language. It would be nice to have at least
four beginners, fewer is also OK. I would be willing to lead a German group,
and instruct--no problem...and my pleasure. I would suggest that people with
advanced skills (semi-fluent or fluent) meet a little later than those with
beginning skills. People with more advanced skills tend to be a little
intimidating to beginners, and they get bored or frustrated with the pace
for the beginners.

Beginning skills are in the first two-three years of materials. Greetings,
time expressions, hobbies, food basics, basic verbs, to go, to play, to eat,
drink, to be, to have, and the modal verbs: should, would, could, can, want
to, would like to, be allowed to, and both forms of past tense--simple and
perfect--had gone or went, sing sang sung, for example, and present tense,
and eventually reflexive verbs.

Advanced would be more speaking and chatting, contemporary culture, pop
music, and developing whatever skills/topic areas people would like to work
on.

Does Noisebridge have a TV/VCR/CD player? It might be fun to have video or
music for the advanced folks...and the ridiculous stuff that I sometimes
come across, which is amusing and builds skills --but via the road of
silliness rather than, here take a list, learn this list....

How are the others constructed and organized?

Tuesdays would work ideally for me, or Thursdays.
If people are going to blow off a session, then I would want to know so that
I didn't show up for zero people, when I could be home working on my
projects.

Are leaders of this type of thing richly rewarded with adulation and praise
or the intangibles of techie assistance?

I have a very simple game that I wanted in flash, might somebody be able to
help me out--or I might be able to get some help with my website. (These are
for my job hunting portfolio as a trainer and I would like to learn some
basic HTML : ) ) I would eventually like to be able to handle that stuff
myself, without becoming a full-on web developer. Just get the basics, and
have a blog and a few limited interactive features, get more comfy with that
sort of thing...

Feel free to forward it to those who might be interested...

My background:
I have a BA and MA in German and ten years of experience as an instructor. I
have taught workshops on creative games and activities for foreign language
acquisition, and using multiple intelligences for foreign language
acquisition, and pain-free classroom management. I taught college, high
school, Business German, German for children (ages 6 to 18) both for
children of native speakers and non-native speakers. I am a queen of run on
sentences--blame it on German. I also have not given away all my teaching
materials, yet....


MfG (Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen--with friendly greetings)

Charlotte


"There are two ways to live -- one as if nothing is a miracle, the other is
as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein


--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>
> Subject: German at Noisebridge?
> To: "Charlotte" <powerfrau99 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 9:37 PM

> I understand Lee has been bugging you to stop by and spend > more time at
> noisebridge. I was wa...
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