Purpose: We need to create our email address books, make sure you are really in the course, and check whether you can recognize, copy, send and receive German text, including the German special characters.

Procedure:

1) EMAIL this assignment to the instructor of your section (link to staff contact info). Do NOT write or print it out and hand it in. Use the address for yourself that you want your instructor to use to contact you during this course. If you do not have your own internet provider and email service, you should get PSU internet and email access (“Odin”) right away (<www.account.pdx.edu>), or arrange some other email and internet service.

2) After you have read all of the Course Description, retype the German message below, adjust the greeting to fit the time of day, insert your name in the appropriate place, finish the rest of the message, and email it to your instructor:

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The course website has a tutorial about how to get German special characters on your computer.

The following link is to the scoring guide for this assignment. If you read the scoring guide as you work on your assignment, you will know exactly what to do to get the score and grade you want.

If you are taking GER 102 or GER 103 this quarter, those courses use an expanded version of this assignment. Get it from this link.

A note about setting up your own email:

Many people have incorrectly constructed email e-addresscards. When someone auto-adds them to an addressbook, the new listing shows up just as [e-nickname]@xxx.yyy. Of course you yourself know that that's your email, but it appears in the field where your human name should show. The results: Your name is alphabetized by your nickname, rather than by last name. If your e-nickname is much different from your human name it's hard for people to know who you are when they're going through what may be hundreds of names. The problem is even worse, especially in an academic or occupational setting, if someone uses a colorful but very different name, such as - true stories from a couple years back - "honeylady" or "whoflungpoo".

If you're not sure what this means, try sending yourself an email and then auto-adding yourself to your addressbook.