I'm also going to take the DSH while I'm there and possibly the Goethe Institute's C2 test. Next school year I will hopefully be studying abroad the University of Heidelberg and taking translation courses in their translation and interpretation department. While I'm there I'll probably also take the C1 Goethe Institute test which they administer there. Next Summer I'm planning on doing Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik which is a 5 week immersion program that my school's German department puts on. I also watch their cooking shows on a fairly regular basis. This is actually something that I have been doing on a regular basis for years if only because ZDF's documentary show 37 Grad is just so good. For listening I'm watching lots of shows on ZDF and ARD. So far I've started studying the vocab but I just haven't gotten around to reading yet. It got delivered to my house late last week and I am making vocab lists of the words in the chapters that I don't know. For reading I'm planning on starting Lesetraining B2. I'm also working through Kimberly Sparks' German in Review. To prepare for the class this fall I've been learning vocab from Cornelsen's Gund- und Aufbauwortschatz nach Themen at a very leisurely pace. If 4th year German at my uni this year is anything like it has been in previous years the classes in the Winter and Spring terms will be at the B2 level (as is the grammar class more or less). The textbook that the class will be using is Klett's Grammatik mit Sinn und Verstand which looks like it should be interesting. This Fall I'm taking Advanced German Grammar and another course that isn't in the German department but that is required to graduate. Perhaps more importantly I also have been approved for financial aid and am planning on going back to school in the fall - school for me starts the very last week of September. Where am I at now? RIght now I'm at a B1 level of German. There are a lot of steps and it's probably going to be very difficult. If I'm able to manage having depression well enough to be able to get through a school year in the US, to get into the exchange program that I'm hoping to do and get a year in Germany (which would be the last year of my bachelors), and then to apply to, be accepted to, and graduate from a university in Germany with my masters in translation. It will take, four years and that's only if everything falls into place and things go well. This log will be interesting because this goal is rather long term. More specifically, my goal is to get a masters in translation with my A language being English and my B language being German.
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