May 21, 2018 | Rigorous Courses, Susan Gleason
Frau Gleason’s Fellow Excelsior Foreign Language Instructors Excelsior’s French and Spanish Instructors Come Highly Recommended… By the German Instructor! It has been an honor and a blessing to work with Señora Diana Lamolinara (Spanish), Madame Gina Duss (French),...
Oct 17, 2017 | College Preparation, Susan Gleason
Excelsior Classes Prepares Students for CLEP Exams Last summer, one of my German students, Elijah, took and passed the German CLEP exam, albeit on the second try. The first time, he did not tell me he was taking the exam. Otherwise, I would have helped him prepare....
Aug 14, 2017 | Rigorous Courses, Susan Gleason
Umlauts: What’s the Deal with the Two Dots? Have you ever seen German words with two dots over some of the letters? Are they really necessary or do they just make a heavy-metal band name look cool, like Mötley Crüe and Motörhead? It’s doubtful these bäd böys...
May 15, 2017 | Rigorous Courses, Susan Gleason
So, What’s the Deal With the Long German Words? Mark Twain once wrote, “Some German words are so long that they have a perspective.” He wasn’t far off the mark. German is definitely known for its ϋber-long words. Many words in the German language are formed by...
