German

Venue: Member's home	Meeting time: Every Monday 10am.
Group Leader: Brian Daley	Contact No: Groups liaison officer: Drew Gurney on 023 9264 8216

To contact the group leader please email the group liaison officer via our contacts page.

There is currently just the one German group. We’re an enthusiastic bunch, ranging from those who studied German at A level and beyond – in one case some 50 years ago – to those whose careers led them to Germany where they learned their German on the job or in their spare time. Our rather disparate membership is privileged to have a tutor who taught for many years at the University of Portsmouth.

We meet for a couple of hours each week and spend our time speaking German. We often start by talking about what we have done during the previous week or about something that has attracted our interest. However, most of the time is spent with our tutor guiding us to improve our language skills by using material which she provides. Much of this is about the Germans, their culture, history and so forth or some contemporary event or anniversary. Consequently there’s never a dull moment! The aim is to get us to speak with more confidence and not have hang ups about having a go. At the same time, using a series of exercises, we are encouraged (relatively painlessly) to improve our grammatical competence, pronunciation and vocabulary.

Currently the group is full and we are unable to take on new members. It might be possible to set up an additional group, were there to be sufficient interest, but finding somebody to lead it might prove difficult – unless, of course there is someone out there with appropriate skills who might be persuaded to take on the job!

Paul Joyce's German Course at Portsmouth University is here