Study Tips


Want more practice? Try the following:

-Take post-it notes and start labeling everything in your room in German.

-Change the language of your email account.

-Make a notebook of German found in "daily life," for instance,
directions on shampoo bottles or computer manuals.

-Listen to German pop-music (see links section.)

-Keep a diary or journal in German.

-Clip newspaper articles dealing with Germany.

-Set your homepage to a German-language site.

-Read a German translation of a book or poem you know well

-Do not speak English with your German professor.

-Use web resources effectively (see links section.)

-Read news articles aloud to yourself.

-Go to a bookstore and try to mentally translate the titles.

-Take the time to learn a new word every day.

-Approach homework as an opportunity to improve your vocabulary...
look up words!

-If you are quite advanced, try taking notes for other classes in German.

-Speak German with members of your German class outside of class.

-Teach someone else in your family to speak German.

-Attend cultural events dealing with Germany.

-Find a pen-pal.

-Take notes, ask and answer questions, and pay attention.

-Take advantage of all opportunities to read or speak German,
in and out of the classroom.

-Come to German Club on Fridays!


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