First Semester in Remagen

Hi everyone, it’s Gabriella here and I amwriting to tell you about my learning experiences. In the first half semester Ihad some courses, International Business Simulations, Advanced InternationalStudies and Intercultural Communication taught by Dr. Borgmann.

First of all Iwas afraid it would be difficult to express my ideas in English. But, after thefirst class Dr. Borgmann told us that the level of our English won’t play arole towards the final grade. That is why I let my fears go and I started to activelyparticipate in the seminars. We worked in a big team, we did presentations, wehad a lot of writing homework, and thus I could improve my skills in manyfields. These courses were very interesting and interactive. I had a chance toknow better the exchange students and I could find German friends too.

Of course I had more courses. For exampleI had two German language courses. These were thought by Adelheid Korpp and ElenaGermann. These courses will continue in the second half semester too. From mypoint of view these courses are very useful for us, because here we can developour German communication and writing skills too.

Finally, I take part in Business Englishtoo. Here we can practice English grammar. We had to do two presentationsduring the semester. We often did group work, where we had to speak aboutdifferent business situations.

To sum up: in my opinion this semester wasvery useful. I am sure that in the future I will often use these new skills andapproaches.