Purpose: We need 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.

Send your instructor the following e-mail, using the helps in [ ] to adjust the message to fit your circumstances:

New students: include the sentence below so that we can check whether you can send the German special characters (see course web site for help):

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

If you are new to first-year German at PSU, there is also an assignment where you explore the course materials and report about your beliefs about language learning and your experience, if any, with other language classes. Do that assignment along with this one, and the quicker the better, so that you will know how the course works and what is in the course materials.

If you are in GER 101, that course uses a simpler version of this assignment. Get it from this link.