German Speakers, Learners of Other Foreign Languages Come in Aswell

[Poh SIti Dawn]

When next you come to Berlin beers on me, my brehs here are always psyched when our out of town fam come round so just shoot me a PM when next you come. I'm sure you got treated well here. In Germany there used to be a ban of university fee's all together up for EU students until 2005 now I know that most undergrad degree's are still free for everyone. It's a great thing because as you know in the UK fee's are extortionate, I take it as a reflection of the economy, the UK used to be free too but due to economy budgets and debt they raised it. As long as Germany maintains a healthy budget they should still be able to afford to allow people to study for free.for EU students.

I'll PM you what I do for a living.

Yeah, I got treated well enough to want to move there lol. I finish with CC in the fall, so after that I'm trying to work my way out there asap. And I didn't know that, I'm from the US I just remember the English protesting uni fees.

 

[IrishBrother]

The EU puts 16 billion euro into a fund each year for scholarshis etc. A proportion of which, is made available to non EU students. You may well qualify for some of that. But I dont think passing the testdaf means that you can avail of free education in any German university.

Think about it logically. Pass a language test and the German state will pay for all your education expenses?

Nah.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

The EU puts 16 billion euro into a fund each year for scholarshis etc. A proportion of which, is made available to non EU students. You may well qualify for some of that. But I dont think passing the testdaf means that you can avail of free education in any German university.

Think about it logically. Pass a language test and the German state will pay for all your education expenses?

Nah.

Ugh, if you haven't taken the test or even studied in Germany then just shut the fukk up.


I'm not going to go back & forth with you, you think what you'd like and I'll think what I'd like, but if you're sole purpose of posting in this thread is to convince me of something other than what I believe then why even post in this thread.

You're becoming annoying, and I ain't the type of nikka to go back and forth, save that shyt for your girlfriend nikka.

 

[IrishBrother]

Good luck getting your free education in Germany and starting a new life there, my man. You are living in the clouds.

Im a fully qualified lawyer that specialises in Eu immigration law, so I could have been of some benefit to you, but you can go and fukk yourself now.

 

[J.Pinkman]

I've been learning German for a year and some change on and off now, I recently took a trip to berlin a week+ ago and realized that I'd like to take the TestDAF which is a test that allows me to go to a university in Germany for free if I pass it.

Has anyone done anything similar to this? And how do you practice speaking a language that you've learned in America if hardly any people that you meet speak it? I've been reading a book in German to get my comprehension up but still I feel as if I were to lie there I'd be fluent in a few months easily.

Isn't Germany basically an all English speaking country anyway? Every German I know speaks better English than me.

I've recently just got back from Spain after studying there for a year. I taught myself a little Spanish but when you get over there it's a whole different ball game. I didn't understand a word. Obviously it will be easier/harder to understand depending on where you go/the accents but nothing can prepare you for that until you live there unfortunately.

Rosetta Stone is horrible though, don't use it. Use http://www.michelthomas.com/ this guy. It's like a real life learning situation. Obviously you can get it by other means.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Isn't Germany basically an all English speaking country anyway? Every German I know speaks better English than me.

I've recently just got back from Spain after studying there for a year. I taught myself a little Spanish but when you get over there it's a whole different ball game. I didn't understand a word. Obviously it will be easier/harder to understand depending on where you go/the accents but nothing can prepare you for that until you live there unfortunately.

Rosetta Stone is horrible though, don't use it. Use http://www.michelthomas.com/ this guy. It's like a real life learning situation. Obviously you can get it by other means.

Some parts, but that's because they're taught in school. I think speaking German is useful, could help with business as well as teaching english. Plus if you know German then I think you can learn Swiss German and perhaps Dutch as well with a little bit of effort because of the similarities.


Did you enjoy it? I was wondering how people were able to study in another country without knowing much of the language. Met an American in Germany doing an internship and he didn't speak a lick of German and his boss and him would always get into it lol. Met many Americans that didn't speak German and used the excuse that everyone knew English there so why should they learn the language, that really put a bad taste in my mouth though.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Good luck getting your free education in Germany and starting a new life there, my man. You are living in the clouds.

Im a fully qualified lawyer that specialises in Eu immigration law, so I could have been of some benefit to you, but you can go and fukk yourself now.

You couldn't be any sort of benefit to me, this is the Internet, lets leave it at that.

 

[J.Pinkman]

Some parts, but that's because they're taught in school. I think speaking German is useful, could help with business as well as teaching english. Plus if you know German then I think you can learn Swiss German and perhaps Dutch as well with a little bit of effort because of the similarities.


Did you enjoy it? I was wondering how people were able to study in another country without knowing much of the language. Met an American in Germany doing an internship and he didn't speak a lick of German and his boss and him would always get into it lol. Met many Americans that didn't speak German and used the excuse that everyone knew English there so why should they learn the language, that really put a bad taste in my mouth though.

Oh yeah, I'd always advise to learn the language even if most of the country speak perfect English. Imagine that on your CV, you're going to stand out above everyone else which was one of the main reasons I did my year abroad.

I did enjoy it. It was dampered by the fact I had some major problems with flatmates/landlord for a few months but other than that it was pretty amazing, once in a lifetime to go studying and living abroad really I'd say. The studying was fine because I did courses in English. I could choose to do them in Spanish but I would have understood none of it so it was pointless. A year on and I still struggle so bad but I think that's a lot to do with where I was. Even people from the North of Spain say the accent from the South is so hard to understand.

I couldn't give you one reason not to do it yet ten's of reasons to do so. Yeah you're away from home for a year etc but everything will be the same when you go back. I made lifelong friends in Spain and would do it again without hesitation.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Oh yeah, I'd always advise to learn the language even if most of the country speak perfect English. Imagine that on your CV, you're going to stand out above everyone else which was one of the main reasons I did my year abroad.

I did enjoy it. It was dampered by the fact I had some major problems with flatmates/landlord for a few months but other than that it was pretty amazing, once in a lifetime to go studying and living abroad really I'd say. The studying was fine because I did courses in English. I could choose to do them in Spanish but I would have understood none of it so it was pointless. A year on and I still struggle so bad but I think that's a lot to do with where I was. Even people from the North of Spain say the accent from the South is so hard to understand.

I couldn't give you one reason not to do it yet ten's of reasons to do so. Yeah you're away from home for a year etc but everything will be the same when you go back. I made lifelong friends in Spain and would do it again without hesitation.

What kind of problems? Did you end up working there?

How did you even get that opportunity and what's stopping you from going back there and getting a job?

 

[J.Pinkman]

Ahh, I'm a student. In Europe we have a programme called Erasmus, which allows students in the EU to study abroad for free and qualify for grants from the EU. Some courses have the option to study/work abroad.

So yeah, I have another year of University left in England but I sure as hell won't be going back to Spain. That country is fukked. At least in Germany you know the country is strong and doesn't have major issues like Spain.

Problems. Well our 'landlord' who we found out was shady as hell. At the start of the year, she rented all the rooms out to students or similar age and different countries which was cool. Then people started to leave cause the apartment was falling apart and the landlord wasn't doing anything. Then when we all took a break to go home for Christmas, she rented the spare room out to a 50 year old psycho woman. She moved in and basically squated, didn't pay a penny. Police were involved, fights broke out in the flat, murder threats etc. That's the short of it anyway, a lot more crazy stuff went on.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Man, why doesn't America have them kind of connections? We rule the world and get the bad end of the stick.

As far as Spain being unstable, that's totally true, but if you're English what worries do you have? I'd like to go to Germany and become a citizen after university if possible and get rid of my American citizenship.

As far as your landlord you should have gotten a lawyer and sued the shyt out of her, that's extra sketchy and for her to try and get over on you is kinda foul, how did you even come across that place? Was it suggested by the university?

 

[J.Pinkman]

Yeah it's stupid. I met a lot of Americans infact, but they were paying $40k a semester! I got $80k's worth of education for free, with about $5k given to me by the EU because we were on the Erasmus scheme, so basically getting paid to study. Crazy.

Yeah we went to the Police, they couldn't do anything apparently. The landlord also went to the Police about the squatter and they said they couldn't do anything about it for 6 months which I thought was insane. Just an example of why Spain is in the gutter, too laid back about everything. She was outside the university the first week advertising her flat obviously preying on foreign students. It's cool though, nobody paid the rent for the last 3 months of our stay so we thought we were about even ha.

But yeah man, take this test, go to Germany. I'm almost certain you won't regret it.