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Schöne Grüße aus Cincinnati!  Seit 16 Jahren unterrichte ich Deutsch an einer High School in Fort Thomas Kentucky.  Die Schule heißt Highlands High School.  Wir sind als die "Bluebirds" bekannt, weil unser Maskottchen  ein großer blauer Vogel ist.  Ich bin verheiratet und ich habe zwei Kinder.  Mein Sohn heißt Jacob und meine Tochter heißt Gretchen.  Wir wohnen in Ohio, weil mein Mann, Kent, ein Geschäft führt. Meine Kindheit habe ich aber in Kentucky verbracht.  Wir hatten sogar auf einem Bauernhof gelebt.  Jetzt haben wir keine Tiere wie Kühe, Pferde und Hühner.  Aber wir haben einen Hund, eine Bulldogge, der Lizzie heißt.

Learning German at Highlands!

Ich heiße Frau Zins-Adams!

German is offered once a week as an after school activity at Woodfill Elementary.  Students can earn community service hours by volunteering to help with this outreach program or volunteer as a tutor after school in room 008.  Students can have a tutor assigned to him or her throughout the year or come periodically to the tutoring sessions which occur from 2:50 PM unti 3:30 PM. 

Value of Learning German

  1. Germany was the world's biggest exporter in 2007 for a fifth consecutive year, even ahead of China. Technological innovation and the high-quality of German goods are seen as the main reasons behind Germany's first place finish. The most popular German export goods are vehicles and vehicle parts, machines, chemical products, and metals.
  2. Germany is the world’s fifth largest economy overall and the world’s third most technologically powerful economy after the US and Japan.
  3. Germany continues to be the U.S.’s largest European trading partner and its fifth largest global partner.
  4. The United States imports more from Germany than from any other European country ($77.2 billion in 2004) and is the second largest market for German exports ($78 billion).
  5. Over 2000 American companies conduct business in German-speaking countries, and more than 1000 companies based in German-speaking countries have subsidiaries in the U. S, according to the American-German Business Club.
  6. Germany was recently named Europe’s most favorable manufacturing location for the foreseeable future by the firm of Healy & Baker and in a recent issue of Newsweek as the second most powerful country in the world after the United States, based on many criteria, especially economic reasons.
  7. Germany is now in third place after the US and Finland in the World Economic Forum’s recently released rankings of countries based on microeconomic factors such as innovativeness of local companies.
  8. Germany tops the list of European nations in the number of new patents registered last year, according to figures from the European Patent Office in Munich. Altogether, German inventors managed to successfully register around 23,800 new patents in 2005 — fewer than only U.S. inventors, which topped the world at 32,700, but more than their Japanese counterparts, with 21,500.
  9. According to the report, German remained the third most taught language at US colleges and universities, with a 3.5 percent increase from 2002. This was a larger percentage increase for German language than was seen in 2002, continuing an upward trend.
  10. German is the most widely spoken language in the European Union, and it is spoken by 101 million people around the world. It is the second most important language in the sciences. Worldwide, it is the language of almost one-fifth of all books.

Sources:  AATG and German.Info