Our native-speaking qualified German teachers can guide you and your group at your work or at home, at a time convenient to you. Classes can take place on any day of the week - even weekends - morning, afternoon or evening. If needs be, if meeting at your office or home is not suitable, you can take your lessons at the trainer's office. Study materials are supplied for you.
This set of German tutorials are less specific and more targeted at those who want to get a range of different things from learning German. Even though all novice students will cover survival German: enough German to make a visit to the country or make good contacts with the locals, but what do you do from there? It depends on your needs. Those who have benefitted from these lessons have been those moving or investing overseas, spouses of overseas nationals, people who love to travel all over the world, those interested in German culture, and those who just want to pass a specific examination in German.
These lessons in German are meant for those that feel that learning German would make a change in their work. For starters, it is expedient to learn how to say hello/goodbye, as well as basic business protocol; once the basics have been mastered, reading and writing come to the fore. Students who have greatly benefitted have been involved in import/export, international negotiations and acquisitions, jobseekers in multinational companies where another language is required, and those working in the international academia and government circuits. Even on our most fundamental beginner's lesson, students can anticipate ending the lesson with basic telephone German and e-mail German skills for communicating, as well as survival German if a short visit to the country is needed.
If there are 2 or more of you with the same level of German, the same targets within the language, and be able to study at the same time and location, then you'll be happy to know that these German lessons can also be made available for Two-to-One German Lessons or Small Group In-Company German Lessons. Listen & Learn do not generally recommend classes of more than 6-8 people, although Taster lessons in German can run with up to 12 people. Bookings must be made for all participants at the same time.
Words can be combined (or 'compounded') in German to form compound words, which can be very long
Nouns in German always start with a capital letter
German uses the same 26 letters as English, with the addition of three vowels with 'Umlaut's (ä, ö and ü) and ß, ('Eszett' or 'sharp s').
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Tätowierungen sind fast so alt wie die Menschheit. Seit vielen tausend Jahren schmücken die Menschen ihre Körper mit Farben. Schon die Römer trugen Tätowierungen, jedoch nicht nur als Schmuck. Im Mittelalter wurde das Tätowieren dann verboten.
Die Maori, die Ureinwohner Neuseelands, zeigen durch die Tätowierung ihrer Gesichter zu welchem Stamm sie gehören. Andere Urvölker lassen durch speziellen Symbole erkennen, wer ihre Vorfahren sind und welchen Status sie innerhalb der Gemeinschaft haben.
In Japan ist es heute noch sehr beliebt, sich tätowieren zu lassen. Früher durften dort nur Mitglieder der kaiserlichen Familie bunte Kleider tragen. Deshalb ließen sich viele Menschen auf die nackte Haut bunte Drachen und Tiger tätowieren.
Erst Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts verbreitete sich die Kunst des Tätowierens wieder in Europa. James Cook, der Entdecker Australiens, brachte von seiner Reise im Jahre 1744 einige Ureinwohner Australiens mit seinem Schiff nach Europa. Diese trugen am ganzen Körper wunderschöne bunte Bilder.
Der große Erfolg kam 1891, als die elektrische Tätowiermaschine erfunden wurde. Von da an ging das Tätowieren nicht nur schneller und einfacher, sondern vor allem auch schmerzfreier. Sehr schnell bewegen sich winzige Nadeln wie in einer Nähmaschine und spritzen die Farbe unter die Haut.
Heute werden Tätowierungen vor allem als Schmuck getragen.
Man sollte sich seine Entscheidung aber gut überlegen, denn das Tattoo kann nur mit schmerzhafter und teurer Lasertechnik wieder entfernt werden.
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