Think You Have What It Takes to Be the German Language Guide?
Tuesday March 18, 2008
We're looking for passionate and enthusiastic individual to be the Guide to the German Language site on About.com!
Our ideal candidate:
What sort of information do we want the new Guide to provide?
Well, we're looking for someone to create a learning tool for students of German. We're also looking for content that will help teachers, language enthusiasts, and visitors to German-speaking countries.
Our ideal candidate:
- Will be fluent in both German and English
- Have previous experience teaching the German Language
- Will be strong writers, capable of explaining the complexities of grammar, alphabet, etc.
Comments
What happened to Hyde Flippo?
Hi webmaster!
Hyde got pissed with the way About.com changed. With the new site look ect. But mainly he wanted to do his own thing. After Hyde left their was no person who had ain priveleges on the forums, so the forums collapsed.
I miss Hyde! He explained everything so well!
Hope a new guy will come soon.
I’m a member of Wright State University’s German club. I’ll pass along the opening to the club, and maybe one of the instructors will decide she can take over.
They’re all wonderful women. (At least, I’m not aware of any men that teach German at WSU…)
Hyde can be found here:
http://www.aboutgerman.net/index.htm
hi,
i’d like to apply for the german language guide, i am native austrian..but among the available topics there is no link for the german language guide….what do to now???
im learning German, this is a good german reading book for beginners:
http://www.queenbeebooks.co.uk
Interesting facts.I have bookmarked this site. stephanazs
Hyde was good. Thanks for the link to his new site. I’m surprised no one has yet taken over the site – seems like it would be a great opportunity for a German speaker, ’specially since it’s a paying position. I mentioned it to someone I know who is eminently qualified (native German, teacher to boot) and she treated it like “Oh, yeah, RIGHT.”
I hope they find someone soon! There’s some great content on this site but I only just discovered it.
Hyde Flippo looked like he was a pretty clever guy, written a few books etc: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Hyde%20Flippo
Let’s hope they manage to get someone pretty good…
The good content someone mentioned is now being used by people who didn’t put it there. (Sich mit fremden Federn schmuecken!) The good old forum is still alive – and well, as I found out, with Hyde, Ethel, Gitte, Robin and some other VERY knowledgeable people. I have no idea what the reason was/is for all this moving/changing etc. and I don’t care, as long as I can get to the old crew.
Yogi
o.k. I will find out on your application site and give a feedback.
Check out this site:
deutschlern.net
It’s got sweet exercises separated by levels of comprehension and it’s updated frequently. You need a minimal amount of proficiency in order to navigate the site, however, as it is entirely in German.
Hello, did you find someone for the German part?
maybe i can help you?
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I found one website where you can learn german daily uses word go for this
germanjockey.com
I would like to take issue with Phillip’s comment. Although you are correct about Spanish being a common language, it was an inappropriate comment for this forum. For those of us who speak and teach German, your comment was unwelcomed. German is a vibrant language that is the most closely related of the major world languages taught in most high schools in the US. Don’t worry, you’ll always have students, so go visit spanish.about.com
I can teach German. Also my husband is German. I can see if he would be willing to teach on the site.
Hey,
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I believe About.com is just taking its time deciding on a candidate. They must have many good applications by now. I also applied – as a native German speaker with an American boyfriend, my English is at a near-native level, plus I’m the host of GermanPod101 and have worked as a German tutor for several years now. I do not know why they allow this site to languish; it should be one of their flagships.
Thanks for tellling us about variuous sources of German languages through which any layman user can understand german.
This is unfortunate. I wanted to visit the German forums and try to improve my German. I think it’s funny that the one guy asks us to “switch to” Spanish. LOL, what’s wrong with endeavoring to be proficient in both languages? Maybe I’m just weird like that.
Why should about.com pay a guide for that forum when the original really good, I would say, exceptionally good forum still exists at Delphi? The only problem is the lack of decent advertisement. Links to the about com German forum are plastered all over the place, but there is not one that leads to the original one, now at Delphi ! Now there’s a money saver for about.com ! Flippo was the perfect guide – not many are that knowledgeable. I’ll never understand what made him keave – but then – that’s his business. Meanwhile, if you’re lucky enough to accidentally stumble on to the original German forum – consider yourself lucky !
Alan Browne
Caribou, Maine
hi …can u plz tell me where i can find some german ppl 2 talk.i am learning german language……as we know it will cum only if u talk….can u plz help me in dis
Why isn’t “treten” (treten, trat, getreten) listed as a strong/irregular verb?
Ben,
I have often wondered the same thing. Perhaps because it has a regular form compared to some other irregular verbs that do not. That being said, there are some verbs that are classes as strong and irregular that, like treten, have a regular form. Sounds like a good question for the folks at Duden. http://www.duden.de/
I went to grad school with Hyde Flippo. I knew him when he taught German in Reno, NV. I also would like to comment about Phillip’s comment to learn Spanish. Here in CA German is not taught as it used to be because of the need for learning Spanish. But everywhere else in the country German is still striving. Most Universities have graduate students especially doctoral candidates learn German at least reading. Germany is one of the stongest economies and businesses are seeing that employees who speak German help their business greatly. Remember German immigrants learned English when they came to this country, if they behaved as many spanish speakers do here in CA and refuse to learn English, German would have been a most prevalent language.