Catalog A course on understanding the spoken language and increasing the student's conversation skills. Prerequisites German 204 or equivalent. The primary goal is to reach a level of proficiency in the target language to allow easy conversation of non-academic topics. Emphasis will be placed on fluency, ease of response and communicativeness. Grammatical accuracy will take second place, and will only be applied if the response is unintelligible.
Conversation is the main focus.
Instructional Procedure and Requirements Topics from the reader may be used toestablish a common basis for talk, vocabulary and discussion. Most work will be done in groups, however, some individual work will be required. Informality and ease are stressed. Formal vocabulary learning is the responsibility of each individual student, class time will be spent on establishing a common vocabulary. I will make comments on each segment via email.