For re-integration purposes we are going to watch the recently released (April 25, 2013 what a coincidence!) movie: Werden Sie Deutscher! (Become a German!). The documentary is following immigrants for six months while they are taking their mandatory 600 (!!!) hours of language course plus 45 hours of orientation course. The protagonists come from different cultural backgrounds, and have one common goal: to live, work, and/or study in Germany.
Here is a rough translation of the trailer:
Excercise 3: German for Integration Courses
"I work a lot and always come home very late. On the weekend I rest. And if there’s a good thriller on TV I am happy."
*Become A German*
Teacher: Let’s play a little bit “party”. Party? Do you understand party? (Students looking clueless, and so would we...)
German National Anthem playing.
Immigrant lady reading from study book: If you look for work, you shall... (daughter correcting: should...)
Innkeeper to immigrant: Do you have an idea about German cuisine in general? Can you prepare an Eisbein (pork knuckles, yikes!), can you bread a Schnitzel? Can you make Klöpse (meatballs) or Kohlrouladen (stuffed cabbage)? It is not simple! (Immigrant shaking head)
Immigrant’s Wife: Who is supposed to be able to read this when you take your test? (ripping paper apart) Again!
Teacher writing on blackboard: Cultural orientation, rules and behaviour patterns. Time is Money!
Comic strip: Here is a young man who doesn’t do everything right.
Immigrant lady reading from blackboard: You have to follow the laws. Don’t throw away your documents. You must read all offical letters. Pick up after your dog.
Role play 1: Policeman: Do you have an idea why we stopped you, Herr Doktor Schnöbel? Immigrant lady: Oh, boy!
Role play 2: Do you know what my problem is? YOU! You and your music!
Teacher: We are new here, we don’t know each other.
:^O
ReplyDelete*lol* I think we will also watch that documentation, although staying in Canada. I think it might be funny, to have a look from outside ;-). Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI missed out on the theory and jumped straight to the practical.... I married a a wonderful German lady:-)
ReplyDeleteWow. 600 hours of German language study.
ReplyDeleteI can see the merit though when I think of how many people have moved to the USA but do not speak the language at all.
I think you cheated Nikos. But so did Brad - he married an American so he didn't have to learn the language, lol.