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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 04:52 PM
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Anyone know what I can do now that I've passed the Sprachpraxispruefung?
Actually I passed it in August of 2001, but the results got lost in the mail, and I was too nervous to Email the people back in Germany about the results. It also kind of slipped my mind. Finally I got up the nerve last week to send an Email. I passed and a new copy of the certification is on its way. Is anyone familiar with what kind of work this might be helpful in getting?
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 04:54 PM
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1. Well, you can probably pee more comfortably, for one thing. n/t
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 04:56 PM
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2. I'd suggest
the use of a kleenex...and washing your hands.
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 05:01 PM
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3. Make love not war? got some flowersnitzles? LOL!
Hey the germans I knew...were sailors that were here in VA in the late 60's...and they were so...so...so very cute...and sexy...damn...if only I was German.....wanted to be...but alas!
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 06:08 PM
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4. Buy a German keyboard?
Edited on Sun Aug-31-03 06:17 PM by Kellanved
just kidding - check your local German-American Chamber of Commerce; they should know.
:shrug:


BTW: congrats
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 08:59 PM
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5. Thanks for the advice
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 09:03 PM
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6. I googled
No pages were found containing "sprachpraxispruefung".

Wild guess - speaking pragmatically about spring?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 09:09 PM
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7. Try this
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Sprachpraxis

Sprachpraxispruefung is a compound word it refers to the test.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 09:29 PM
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8. Have sex with Klingons...?
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 10:59 PM
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9. Write "The Love Song of J. Alfred Sprachpraxispruefung"?
Sorry, that wasn't helpful, but maybe kicking the thread will get you more useful replies. Would it help you get work as an English-German translator? Just guessing.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 11:02 PM
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11. Yeah. It might help with that. Or for teaching German in the US
I guess I should take it to the German department and see what they have to say
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KCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 11:02 PM
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10. Dude, I passed that!
You are now qualified to be a.... wait, control yourself... a

STAY AT HOME MOM!!!!!

Your prize:

A beautiful certificate that says you have a very educated skill which means absolutely nothing IRL.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 11:04 PM
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12. Cool, I can be a mom?
That is a surprise since I am a male. Where did you take your Sprachpraxispruefung?
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KCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 11:05 PM
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13. Marburg, 1992
You?

St. Phillips Universitat, I believe. I lived in the altschdatd, near the Schob.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 11:06 PM
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14. Universitaet Augsburg
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 01:34 AM
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15. Vielleicht kannst du Kellner in
einem deutschen Restaurant werden. Oder wenn du schoenes English schreiben kannst, dann kannst du Uebersetzer sein. Oder so was.
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Sick of Bullshit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 05:33 AM
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16. Ich war Kellner in einem deutschen Restaurant
im Taos Skital. Es war ein gemuetlicher Beruf, aber leider kriegte ich nichts davon.
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 09:52 AM
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17. well one thing is for sure
you can spell "Sprachpraxispruefung"
bet you can say it right, too.

Seriously, congratulations, but I have no idea what you can do with it? Didn't anyone tell you what passing it would do for you before you took it?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 10:02 AM
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18. It was in Germany that I took it.
They told me that if any company in Germany was hiring me that the certificate would prove beyond all doubt that I have enough knowledge of the language so that I would fit right in. Some of the people that took it with me were preparing for careers with German newspapers as foreign correspondents. I took the test because they told me that I already had the qualifying requirements done and it didn't cost anything. I wasn't concerned with applicability.

I am kind of wondering if it would have any use in America, as far as getting into a Graduate Program along with the B.A. I have in German.
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-03 10:05 AM
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19. I'm in public education
and I would imagine it would help if you are looking to teach in a public school.
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