| German: | native speaker |
| English: | native fluency |
| Spanish: | fluency in speaking, writing, and reading |
| French: | fluency in reading and speaking |
| Latin: | advanced reading knowledge ("Großes Latinum" in Germany) |
| Russian: | three semesters in college |
| Esperanto: | I completed a ten lesson correspondence course. |
SOME RELEVANT SITES FOR MY RESEARCH:
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL)
International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA)
International Association for Aesthetics (IAA)
German Studies Association (GSA)
International Brecht Society (IBS)
Academy of the Arts in Berlin (Akademie der Künste - AdK)
RESOURCES ON GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE:
LEO Online German-English and English-German Dictionary
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
Projekt Gutenberg-DE -- a literary database in the German language, hosted by the magazine SPIEGEL
Project Gutenberg -- a free database of world literature in many languages, including German
Mark Twain: "The Awful German Language" (from: A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, 1880)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND WORK/STUDY OPPORTUNITIES IN GERMANY:
DAAD -- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service)
German-American Internship Exchange
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung / Foundation
Study Abroad at Lehigh University
THE PRESS - GERMAN MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS:
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
GERMAN RADIO AND TV STATIONS:
ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen)
CULTURAL INFORMATION ABOUT GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND SWITZERLAND: