About the Author
Michael Hager is uniquely qualified because of his professional training in Second Language Acquisition and his extensive work experience in the German business world. He lived in Berlin for almost 20 years, and completed his Dr. Phil. in Germanistik at the Free University of Berlin. His dissertation dealt with the pronunciation of "u" and "o" in German by Americans, Chinese, and Turks. He also worked for approximately 14 years at Siemens AG in Berlin teaching English to management and German as a Second Language to foreign businessmen and engineers.
Currently, he is employed at the Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures where he is responsible for Business German and organizes and coordinates the first two years of German language study. He has published various articles throughout the world and two books.
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