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Margaret Gonglewski, Associate Professor of German, has been appointed Interim Director of the Columbian College Language Learning Center. Winner of the 1999 Bender award for Teaching with Technology, Professor Gonglewski is uniquely qualified to take on the launching of the new Center. Professor Gonglewski arrived at GW in 1995, with a Ph.D. in German applied linguistics from Georgetown University. Until now, she has coordinated the GW's German-language program. Professor Gonglewski's areas of expertise include second language acquisition strategies, language teaching policy, and teaching with technology. She is the author of the webpage and testing packet for Treffpunkt Deutsch, a leading introductory German textbook.
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High German began to emerge as the standard literary language during the 16th century. Martin Luther's translation of the Bible, which he completed in 1534, marks the beginning of this process. The language he used, based partly on spoken German, became the model for written German.
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Low Saxon varieties (spoken on German territory) are considered linguistically a language separate from the German language by some, but just a dialect by others. Sometimes, Low Saxon and Low Franconian are grouped together because both are unaffected by the High German consonant shift. However, the part of the population capable to speak and resp. or to understand decreases since WWII continuously. Currently the effort to maintain a residual presence in cultural life is neglectable.
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Middle High German was the language of the minstrels. Although the time of its oldest documents nearly overlaps with AHD times, it is quite thoroughly different from AHD. The concentration of the word stress on the word stem is now complete, leaving prefixes and suffixes with an unspecific vowel written as
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MUNICH, Germany, November 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The German language technology specialist Linguatec and the renowned Chinese Academy of Sciences have reached an agreement on strategic cooperation. The goal is joint research and development of new language technology solutions to make closer ties between Europe and .....
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HSE-Germany operates a German-language television home shopping business that is broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and ... operates the website http://www.hse24.de/. HSE-Germany's management team will remain in place following the transaction, with Dr. Konrad Hilbers continuing in his role as Chief Executive Officer.
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