Improving technical German for professional communication – from understanding economic texts, to writing correspondence and conducting interviews.

The content of the NC7W course is to deepen knowledge of German grammar and the ability to communicate in German in the workplace, to emphasize the development of all four skills: reading and listening with comprehension, writing economic correspondence and speaking with the aim of acquiring the necessary vocabulary, working with technical terminology based on authentic economic texts, and expanding language competences at level B2, according to the CEFR.

The topics discussed are grammatical, based on grammatical phenomena at level B2 – i.e. the use of individual past tenses, types of subordinate clauses, infinitive constructions, forms of the passive voice, and its use. The professional topics are the structure of the company, planning, meetings and appointments with customers, telephone calls, working hours, types of income, bank transfers, balance sheets, results, communication within the company, working – legal conditions and relations in the workplace, professional qualities. From business correspondence, they will learn how to navigate job offers, how to write a motivation letter correctly, everything that should be included in its attachments, and how to correctly write a business letter, e-mail, invitation to a company event, and thank-you letter. Finally, students present a fictitious company where they will use the knowledge they have acquired from the course.