No one can "teach" you a language; it’s a gift you give yourself.  Because fluency has the limited shelf-life of a perishable commodity, your own desire and conscientious effort to keep learning are the keys to achieving, maintaining, and renewing it.  These tutorial materials work best for the inquisitive, self-disciplined, emotionally mature student.  These qualities are prime requisites for learning anything, particularly a foreign language.  For such students, we provide the opportunity and the interactive, multimedia tools.

Beyond the language-teaching industry's abstract "Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century" experienced teachers still must provide the concrete learning goals and tasks that set you on the path to language proficiency in its linguistic, "communicative", and cultural aspects.  You should expect that your German instructor-tutors define the content and form of your foreign language study, provide the tools to facilitate your learning, quantify your progress, and certify the high-water mark of your competency within this four-semester program!  The materials & tools on this website will help you achieve this "defined, limited mastery."

To date five German states have demanded that the most recent so-called "spelling reform" be abandoned.  Now several key  German publishers have abandoned this arrogant, ill-conceived piece of social engineering, something Germans in large numbers had already done informally.  Until German-speakers settle spelling & grammar issues among themselves, these materials will use pre-reform standards.

LEARNING GOALS & EVALUATION

Responsibilities

POLICIES

1. ATTENDANCE: is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.  Direct human interaction in German with the instructor/tutor and classmates can speed learning.  So, if you are within commuting distance of Tucson, Arizona and want this advantage, ask where and when tutorials meet.   Distance learners perform best when they are highly motivated and self-disciplined.  Students  have found that these tools lighten that burden.

2. EVALUATION:  You can earn an "A" in this course!  See the table below to plan your final grade.  You may take and re-take a lesson exercise or randomized quiz at or near the scheduled date, and you may see your own current high scores anytime.  Interactive online Exams are proctored and time-delimited.

NOTICE to college students: If you request or accept a grade of  (I)ncomplete at the end of this semester you are expressly agreeing that you also accept responsibility for completing all work contained in the current and on-going Internet version of this course outline, even as these materials develop and change from term to term, up to one year after the end of the semester; not simply a static, printed version of this course outline as may have existed at some moment in time during the semester.