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Learning German at UW-Madison How to form realistic expectations of language learning progress and why we ask you to do what we ask you to do. Your Experiences How did you learn English? Do you know a FL other than German? How did you learn this language? How long did you learn (have you been learning) this language? Our Program Goals: How We Measure Progress You can express yourself on a greater variety of topics You can express yourself with more precision and detail You have an increased fluency/speed of comprehension/production Our Program Goals: How We Measure Progress You have a decreasing dependence on listeners/speakers for successful communication You have an increasing repertoire of language tools i.e. Beginning: you can distinguish between a request and a command i.e. Intermediate: you can distinguish between more and less direct speech Our Program Goals: How We Measure Progress You develop language strategies which help with language use (comprehension and production) in real-life situations (without a textbook, explanations or preparation, and use little or no English) Increasing comfort level with the language Our Program Goals: How We Measure Progress You have increasing accuracy in vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation/intonation, text production (i.e. in different genres) and social conventions (pragmatics) You have an increasing awareness of how languages function - including grammatical structure and social and cultural connotations. Our Program Expectations and Goals: Year 1 You can talk about yourself and your needs in predictable (scripted) situations i.e. situations that would likely be encountered by a student learner of German in a German speaking country. You can understand and interpret very basically what goes on socially and culturally in predictable (scripted) situations Our Program Expectations and Goals: Year 1 You gain an overview of the basics of German grammar How is German Grammar organized? (cases, verb conjugations, etc.