Hot language, cool school :)

My German summer school, deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik (dSaP for short), just updated their website for next year!  Here's the link.

Everybody knows this much:  The German language is hot  :)  But you need to physically come to this particular summer school and see for yourself how much unbelievably hotter it gets in summer!

Back in Fall 2008, I researched summer German-language immersion programs in the USA, and this was the best one (in terms of quality, course offerings, history, etc.) by about 23.44 miles.  I came here as an undergraduate in 2009, and I liked it here so much that I have come back as a graduate student every single summer after that  :)

If you are an undergraduate, you can earn 12 quarter credits during the 5 weeks with a normal class load (and it is perfectly possible to do an overload) which will transfer to your College and count towards your German major (or German minor).  This is what I did in 2009 (I took 16 quarter credits that time).

If you already have a B.A. in German, an M.A. in German at this summer school takes 4--7 summers.  This is what I am doing now  :)

If you are a graduate student in German, you can earn 12 quarter credits with a normal class load (and it is perfectly possible to do an overload) which will transfer into and count towards the graduate program at your University.

If you work smart at the summer school, you can typically make about a whole year's worth of progress during the 5 weeks, no matter at what level you start  :)  Want to see some proof?  You'll get to prove this to yourself by taking the Goethe examinations towards the end of the 5 weeks!  Taking the exams is optional, but they encourage it by offering a huge discount (the Goethe exams are expensive) during the summer school  :)

And that's not even the half of it ...  But I'm not telling you any more!  Get here next year and see for yourself  :)

If you will have already had at least 2 years of German by next summer, apply now.  The recommendation letter doesn't need to say your German is perfect, the letter just needs to say you have the tenacity to go 5 weeks using no language other than German 24/7.

If you haven't had enough German yet, take some (more) German already.  It's worth taking those classes at your local College just so you can come to this summer school afterwards (in addition to all of the reasons you've already heard, of course).  Yes, it's that good  :)