Download Deutschlandbilder 2006

Deutschlandbilder 2006
zusammengestellt von Hannelore Müller
Fachberaterin Kanada/Ost
Zentrale für das Auslandsschulwesen
August 2006
Deutschland – Land der Ideen
Die Kanzlerin
Einwanderungsland Deutschland
Ich habe Wurzeln …
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…in den USA
…in Kasachstan
…in Polen
…in Kroatien
…in Griechenland
…in Mexiko
…in Schweden
…im Irak
…in der Türkei
…in Mexiko
…im Iran
…in Italien
Grundschule Hammersbeck Bremen
Einsteinchen/Die Seite mit der Maus
Think of Germany
….and you might picture a cuckoo clock,
one of our better known inventions.
Now think again and picture a MP3 player,
a modern technology also invented in
Germany, and now providing musical
delights to millions …
Der Bundestag im
• Reichstagsgebäude Berlin
Zukunft als Rückspiegel?
Deutschland in Europa
Toronto Star, 3.10.2006
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More than 1,100 companies of German-speaking countries have subsidiaries in
the U.S. and Canada. More than 750 U.S. companies do business in Germany. A
knowledge of German improves your chances in the job market and will facilitate
international placements at the senior management level of international companies.
60% of polled companies would choose someone with German literacy over an
equally qualified monolingual candidate.
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AT UNIVERSITY
German is essential in the understanding of music, art, architecture and design;
consider, for example, the influence of the German Bauhaus School on the skyline
of Chicago, or the contributions of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
At university, a reading knowledge of German is valuable in chemistry, physics,
biology, engineering, psychology, philosophy, international law and archaeology; for
philosophy, you can’t do without Nietzsche, Marx Freud and
Jung.COMMUNICATION
German has become the most widely used language of communication of both
Western and Eastern Europe; it is also the sixth most commonly spoken language
in the world.GERMAN IS EASY !
German and English are sisters! Many words are the same or very similar and the
grammar is logical. Discover this fascinating new language for yourself!
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German is for a new breed of thinkers, artists, scientists, journalists and travellers.
BUSINESS
Germany is the most powerful country in Europe both politically and economically. If your
future finds you in Foreign Affairs, International Trade or Defense, German is a must. Germany is
the third largest industrial nation. Germany is Canada’s 4th largest trading partner after the
US, Japan, and the UK. 68% of all Japanese students study German. One of the largest German
language schools is in Seoul, Korea.SURF !
After English, German is the second most commonly found language on the internet. Germany is
one of the top three nations in the research and development of high-tech products.TRAVEL
Germans have one of the highest per capita incomes in the world; they are therefore the
biggest tourism spenders in the world. German can also be helpful when travelling through
Spain, Greece, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, parts of France, Italy, and all Eastern European
countries, since a large part of the population there has an understanding of the
language.RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Germany is the world’s largest contributor to research and development, outspending
Canada 10 to 1, thus making it an essential source of R&D in agriculture, medical and health
research, non-nuclear energy, the environment, information and communication technologies.
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USE GERMAN IN YOUR JOB