German for Business: Learn to Speak German in the Business Environment

With a differentiated teaching method, the book “German for Business” seeks to provide a unique experience of learning for professionals who work with the German language within corporate environments by telling an exciting story about a Brazilian woman that wishes to get an internship in Germany. Throughout the book, you will be able to follow Nathalie’s entire path to reach her goal and cheer for her. With this plot, the story aims to teach how to communicate in German inside an organization, since how to apply for a job opportunity, to conduct an interview, to answer e-mails, to do business, to solve problems of different areas and even perform presentations of projects and results. The book seeks to break the paradigm that German is a difficult and exhaustive language to be studied and provide the learning with the focus on the vocabulary and expressions mostly used in a daily basis of a corporate environment, making the experience pleasant and interesting.

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Com este livro você irá aprender:

• what is really needed to work with the German language in a Business environment, focusing on the most used vocabulary and expressions;
• the main terms used in writing emails and formal letters;
• how to communicate in a telephone interview;
• the main terms used in negotiations to solve problems in different areas;
• how to present indicators and projects focusing on terms that are relevant within an organization; It is
• grammatical issues that are the target of recurrent errors by foreigners who learn the language.

Confira os capítulos:

Chapter 01 – Nathalie sends an e-mail applying for an internship vacancy.

Chapter 02 – Phone call between Nathalie and the recruiter.

Chapter 03 – E-mail from the company scheduling Nathalie’s interview with the manager of the internship vacancy and Nathalie’s e-mail answer.

Chapter 04 – Nathalie’s interview with the vacancy manager.

Chapter 05 – E-mail with the interview’s answer realized with the area manager.

Chapter 06 – First day of Nathalie’s internship at the company “Topcar”.

Chapter 07 – Solving quality problems – conversation with the supplier;

Chapter 08 – Presentation of the main indicators of the company’s performance realized by the factory’s director to the executives; and

Chapter 09 – Presentation of Nathalie’s internship project.

The lessons are going to be composed of a base-material, that can be a dialogue, a presentation, an exchange of e-mails or a text. Out of this material it will be highlighted the most important vocabularies and its grammar classification (verbs, substantives with its respective articles, adjectives, and adverbs, etc.). After the vocabulary presentation it will be realized some considerations about the main points from the base-material. These explanations may contain some highlight points of grammar. Lastly, it will be presented some exercises for you to practice what was approached in the lesson.

Joana Closs Fonseca

I’m the teacher Joana. I’m passionated for travelling, to experience new culture and I love to study people and ways of communication, and, for this reason, I love learning new languages. I like to comprehend how each culture uses their language, and the cultural difference by the spoken expression. I’ve a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering by the Federal University of Paraná, I’ve worked for 13 years as an engineer and 6 years as a university teacher. I’m very communicative and a very excited person and I’m sure that you are going to notice this along this book.