Student Testimonials

Emily Xu

Minoring in German was one of the best decisions I made as an undergraduate. I always had a passion for foreign languages and I was biased towards German because my father was once a German-Chinese...

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Naseem Summer Fazeli

I started learning German in high school and I immediately fell in love with the language and its structure. At UCLA, I was able to get credit for my high school work and pursue a...

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Emily Galloway

I started UCLA as an engineering student, but soon found myself missing the conversational and collaborative environment of my high school German classes. So, I decided to take German 5 at UCLA. I liked it...

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Noorvik Minacian

My personal experience with the German language and the German culture began as an immigrant in 1990, when I was two years old. My family and I arrived as refugees from Iran to Germany in...

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Sara Levy-Lambert

Being enrolled in German courses at UCLA allowed me to rediscover my love for the language, culture and country that I left behind when I moved to New York from Frankfurt ten years ago. My...

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Steven Armstrong

As I look back to my freshmen orientation in 2011, I can’t truly explain what drew me into starting another language. Perhaps it was the idea of starting from scratch, the idea of starting a...

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