<p>Hello. This is my first post, so please forgive me if this is not in the appropriate area.</p>
<p>I am a current freshmen and will be spending my sophomore year studying abroad at Universit</p>
<p>you should find out if the classes you will take in germany are fully in german or specifically made for students who speak german as a second language. if the former, then you might have a difficult time persuading der Professor oder Professorin to let you into the classroom to participate, follow, do assignments, and receive credit.</p>
<p>a friend of mine who was extremely fluent in german was not allowed into the german classes to receive credit. but those were upper level history classes.</p>
<p>ich weiss nicht. du sollst den Austauschlehrer/in fragen. viel gluck</p>
<p>p.s. wenn du andere fragen hast, frag mich</p>
<p>Of course you will keep up if you speak German fluently. Remember, you’ll be immersed in the language, so your German will improve very quickly. When you return, pick up the books for the accounting classes from your school, and review. I’ll bet you’ll be fine, and this is a great opportunity for you. In the worst case scenario take or audit the beginning classes the summer you get back.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about the differing class material. I assume that those courses are about half Managerial Accounting which is only guided by common sense. The other half, Financial Accounting, is a bit different but only in rather marginal ways.</p>
<p>As for being able to handle the material in German, there’s a really easy way to test that. Go through an Accounting Test at your current school and see if you can translate all of words that aren’t specific to Accounting to German. If you can and you already know you can understand spoken words alright, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be fine.</p>
<p>I don’t know how much this will help you since you’ll be at a university, but when I went to Germany last year for my junior year I had a really hard time keeping up with the classes at my gymnasium. I was able to understand most TV shows, and conversations but for some reason the classes were just really hard to comprehend. I was able to do okay on most exams though, and teachers were considerate of the fact that I was not a native German speaker. Viel Glueck!</p>
<p>I had another thought for you, OP. If you can afford to do the summer school accounting courses before going abroad, then maybe you should. That would free up other time in Germany to take courses towards your other majors, especially German. It seems with your goals, the more you double up, the better off you may be. Good luck to you!</p>