SUGGESTED ENTRY-LEVEL GERMAN CLASSES

The following are general guidelines to help students self-select the appropriate German class in which to start off here at Georgia Tech. Please note that the School of Modern Languages is now located on the 2nd floor of O'Keefe Building.

Please follow the registration and overload directions as indicated on the link on the ML homepage. 

This is the right class for you if...

• You have never taken any formal classes in German before or if you had less than two years in high school more than two years ago. However, we encourage you to start in 1002 if you can.

This is the right class for you if...

• You have successfully taken German 1001 at Georgia Tech, or its equivalent at another college/university; or you have taken 2 years in High School and feel fairly confident.

This is the right class for you if...

• You have taken 3 years of high school German or more, 1 year of college-level German, or its equivalent.

• You are able to understand most of what your teacher says in German, and you are comfortable in an all-German classroom.

• You are hesitant when you speak German, and you make vocabulary and structure mistakes, but you can describe yourself, talk about your interests, ask other people about themselves and their activities, etc.

• You have done some reading in German, but it takes you some time and effort to follow the gist of a story or newspaper/magazine article.

• You can write several paragraphs about yourself and your friends or family, without a dictionary, but with errors.

*Although these classes are sequential, you may take them in any order that fits your schedule.

These should be the right classes for you if...

• You have few problems following your teacher in German or the other students in an all-German classroom.

• You speak easily, make some mistakes, and are able to speak comfortably in the past or present, and to talk a little bit about relatively sophisticated issues such as critical opinions, politics, etc.

• You can read unabridged German texts fairly easily with the help of a dictionary. It might take time, but you can read with attention and some enjoyment.

• You're comfortable writing longer compositions that develop an argument or a position on a serious issue. You probably need a dictionary occasionally, and you still make grammatical errors.