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, adjusted to fit your circumstances:

[Liebe(r) + title + name],

[suitable greeting] und [GER102: alles Gute im Neuen Jahr] / [GER103: schöne Frühlingszeit]. In diesem Semester studiere ich …. [add your own course information, using the German words for general subject names like “music” or “sociology”]. Meine E-mail-Adresse ist [immer noch / jetzt] [abc@xyz].

[proper closing]

[your name, in case your email address doesn't make your name clear]

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):

Das deutsche ABC ist wie das englische, aber mit äÄöÖüÜ und ß.

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