Why Learn a Foreign Language?
Recent studies have shown that learning a foreign
language (like learning to play a musical instrument) can improve your
chances for success in higher education. Most colleges require a minimum
of two ongoing semesters of a foreign language. I encourage you to select
German as your foreign language. Let me tell you why.
Culture and Travel:
Learning German is very helpful for further studies, such as, philosophy,
music, history, medicine and psychology. As you learn more about a foreign
culture, you enhance your global understanding, a necessary skill in the
21st Century. German speakers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van
Beethoven, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
have great stature in world history. As you rediscover them through their own language, you
enhance your appreciation for their contributions and prepare yourself for
better experiences with culture and travel, things most people enjoy
throughout their lives whether or not they continue in school.
German is a world language:
Second to English, German is the most frequently used language for
business in Europe. Germans are the second most numerous users of the
Internet. If you plan to sell or market on the Internet, it's a good
language to know.
Understanding Cultural
Heritage: Many of my students also enjoy learning about their
Austrian, German or Swiss heritage.
Deutsch Vergnügen!
Knowledge of German is important, and even essential to such areas
as:
- International Business
- Travel and Tourism
- Political Science
- Journalism
- Engineering
- The Military
- Chemistry
- Banking
- Art History
- Music
- Theology
- Philosophy
If you
want to: do business in Frankfurt, hike the Alps, ski in St.
Moritz, order Sachertorte in Vienna, listen to Wagner in Bayreuth,
go to Weimar, discuss politics with a Berliner...you'll get better
results by speaking German.
Learn
about German language, culture and people at Grossmont College.
Questions? Contact
Johannes Bruestle. 644-7473 |
