Thursday, November 30, 2006

http://www.helmut-fischer.com/indexCountry.asp
This is my new company. But I don´t work as a Freko there. I´m just an assistant and sometimes I help my colleagues with their English and Spanish.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Didi's New Job

Maybe if I start a post, she'll tell us something about the job, or maybe even post a link to the company's website!?

New Blog

The new BLP/Freko group for 2006-7 has a blog now!

They've just started writing for an class assignment. Each one is to write something about a certain area (travel, sports, music, etc.) as if they were designing a website for young people. Take a look and comment, too, if you feel like it!

Thursday, November 09, 2006

From FREKO to ESA

Hey, Michelle

Yesterday I was at a school next to Berlitz 2. Next year I will study ESA (Europasekretärin).
This takes two years. It´s the Akademie ABW. Do you know it?

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Pink!?

Is something wrong with my new computer already, or did someone redecorate the blog? Hmmm...let me guess who...

Sunday, October 22, 2006

GOOD JOB!

Congratulations to the new Frekos, Fritzi and Didi! I'm proud of you!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

The real FREKOS

Hallo Michelle

Today we had our exam in Karlsruhe. We can proudly say that Fritzi and I have passed the oral test. That means that we are now Fremdsprachenkorrespondenten.
Fritzi said greetings to you and she will be back on the blog soon.
Now Michelle, when are we going to celebrate?

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Yeah!!!

Fritzi and Didi have passed the written Freko exam!!!

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

How's the presentation coming?

I'll see you tomorrow, but wanted to let you know that I can come on Thursday. I'm looking forward to it!

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Saturday at Elke's














A little rain didn't keep us from having a great time. Thanks for your hospitality, Elke!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

To all the Frekos for passing the FCE Exam!!! What a team!

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Press release wanted!

Hi Michelle
At the moment I´m working on step into Marketing. They want me to write a press release. Could you please put an example of a press release on the blog. I don´t know how to do this.
Thank you very much and see you on saturday.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Nice weather for ducks

Hope you're enjoying your summer vacation! Here's something to brighten up the day a bit :)

(Substituted the youtube link for the google URL that wasn't working.)

Monday, July 31, 2006

Back in Germany

Hello, I'm back in country. The past week at the conference in Indianapolis was very busy and booking internet time at the hotel was very expensive so I haven't been in touch. I hope your speech/presentation course was helpful and that you've been working hard. See you tomorrow!

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Hello Michelle

Fritzi and I haven´t had a chance yet to do the interpretation of the poem. We will do this as soon as possible. :-)
See you on Tuesday, bye Didi

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Learning Styles

Here's a learning styles website with several tests for learning, multiple intelligence and an analytical/global thinking test. All in English.

You can take a short test in German here.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Nice little video illustration:

"Watch an example of cultural misinterpretation." This site is also the source of the glossary that was passed out in class.

Intercultural Links

Culturosity - a good resource site with short, helpful articles and links.

Kwintessential is the site of a company that offers training courses. Free services include country profiles and some online tests to see how culturally aware you are (the test didn't work for me, though?!)

An online cultural training course for students who would like to study abroad. Nice photographs and good info!

And here is a link to the results of Hofstede's research on his five dimensions of culture in various countries.

Monday, June 19, 2006

German Ad

Have you seen this? ;)

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Mafreldi are ready for the next part

Hallo Michelle,
The oral test was quite o.k. Fritzi and I were together and Manu and Elke were together in the room. Everybody was satisfied with the topic. Fritzi and I had to discuss why and in which situation we like taking photographs. Elke and Manu had to discuss which devices are the most important for humans. But the examiner had a strong poker face. He didn´t say anything at the end, exept "that´s all, goodbye!". And when Fritzi and I were ready we weren´t allowed to speak to the others. The examiners are strange people! ;-)