WHY LEARN GERMAN?

See The Reasons!

Hear The Reasons!

So many German bands. Have you heard any of these?
Is your favorite German band missing? Tell Frau!
Listen to audio clips and purchase anything on amazon.de

INDUSTRIAL/METAL
Einsturzende Neubauten, Das Ich, Gothminister, In Strict Confidence , Laibach, Hanzel Und Gretyl,
Die Form, Suicide Commando : , Blutengel, De/vision, Funker Vogt,
Diary of Dreams: ,
KMFDM, MDFMK, Wumpscut, The Retrosic, Rosenstolz
Rammstein and Joachim Witt
Die Ärzte
Beatsteaks
Madsen
Wir Sind Helden
Tomte
Sportfreunde Stiller
Mia
Die Happy
Die Toten Hosen
Zeraphine
Warlock/Doro Pesch and The Scorpions
Sielwolf and Siva Six
Tokio hotel
Oomph!

TECHNO/ALTERNATIVE: Juli , Kraftwerk, Novalis, Klee , Qntal , Tanzwut
Umbra Et Imago , Mondenblut, Xmal Deutschland, Eisbrecher, And One, Linientreu, Kramm, Melotron

80s/NEW WAVE:Ideal, Vera Kaa, Nena,  Nina Hagen

CLASSICAL: Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Bach, Wagner, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Strauss

RAP: Die Fantastischen Vier (Fanta4), MfG

Read the Reasons!

Possibly win the National Spelling Bee!

These links will make you feel really SMART about your choice to learn German:

http://www.aatg.org/content/view/261/

http://www.serve.com/shea/whygermn.htm

http://www.vistawide.com/german/why_german.htm

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/maseman/why.html

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/prj/pdt/whg/enindex.htm

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/german/abinitio/whygerm6.html

http://www.learn-languages-abroad.co.uk/learn-german-language.html

"LOTS OF COOL STUFF HERE-IT WILL TAKE ME MONTHS TO GO THROUGH IT ALL."
-psyched RHS German student

EAT THE REASONS!

(here are some items Frau puts in her cart when she goes food shopping:)

Check out: www.germandeli.com

SHOP THE REASONS!



(These are the stores where Frau Bogard loves to shop!)

MEET THE REASONS!
So many cool Germans. Have you heard of any of them?

Sports:	Steffi Graf, Thomas Muster, Boris Becker, Michael Stich, Nicholas Kiefer, Tommy Haas, Anke Huber, Bernhard Langer, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Michael Schumacher, Franz Beckenbauer, Oliver Kahn, Michael Ballack, Jürgen Klinsmann, Oliver Bierhoff, Reinhold Messner
Actors:	Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jürgen Prochnow, Marlene Dietrich, Nastassja Kinski, Franka Potente
Film directors:	Wolfgang Petersen, Roland Emmerich, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorf
Musicians:	Nina Hagen, Udo Lindenberg, Nena, Die Fantastischen Vier, Modern Talking, The Scorpions, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Toten Hosen, Blixa Bargeld (The Bad Seeds), J. Brahms, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Herbert von Karajan, Die Prinzen, Rammstein
Artists:	Gottfried Helnwein, Caspar David Friedrich, Franz Marc, Joseph Beuys, Eugen von Guérard, Hans Heysen, Rosina Wachtmeister (better viewed in MS Internet Explorer), Walter Gropius, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Albrecht Dürer
Writers:	J. W. Goethe, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Heine, Günter Grass, Friedrich Schiller, The Brothers Grimm, Bertolt Brecht, Michael Ende
Scientists:	Albert Einstein, Robert Koch, Otto Hahn, Johannes Keppler, Baron Ferdinand von Mueller => option #1 / option #2, Gottlieb (Wilhelm) Daimler, Karl Friedrich Benz, Ferdinand Porsche, Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen, Georg von Neumayer, Sigmund Freud, Hans Geiger, Werner von Braun, Johannes Gutenberg, Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Models:	Claudia Schiffer, Nadia Auermann, Heidi Klum
Political People:	Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Ludwig Leichhardt (see also book in school library: Australia, Willkommen...A History of the Germans in Australia), Otto von Bismarck, Baron Friedrich von Steuben,  Sophie and Hans Scholl, Willy Brandt

Thanks to D Nutting :http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/lote/german/links/topics/famous.htm

GERMAN is a WORLD LANGUAGE!
You can use your German skills in 22 different places around the globe.
Can you name some of them?
Click here to see the list.