AMD 1 - Goethe Intitut in Deutschland

For AMD1, I went to the Goethe Institut website and tried to find some information of cities that offer the language course. I tried to read through the webpage in German. I am actually planning to study in one of the Goethe Institutes in Germany this May and June and I decided to read about one of the cities that I am thinking of taking the course at: Frankfurt am Main. Below is the text from the webpage:

Kultur

Der berühmteste Sohn der Stadt ist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Sein Geburtshaus steht am Großen Hirschgraben, in Frankfurt schrieb er „Die Leiden des jungen Werther“. In der Philosophiegeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts nimmt die „Frankfurter Schule“ um Theodor W. Adorno und Max Horkheimer eine markante Stellung ein. Unbedingt empfehlenswert für kulturell Interessierte ist der Besuch der Frankfurter Oper, die als eines der besten Musiktheater Europas gilt. Die Stadt bietet mit über 60 größeren und kleineren Häusern eine einzigartige Museumslandschaft. So gruppieren sich am Museumsufer entlang des Mains international bedeutende Museen für Film, Architektur, Angewandte Kunst sowie das Jüdische Museum und das Museum für Moderne Kunst. Das überregionale Feuilleton der „Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung“ (FAZ) gehört zu den kulturellen Leitmedien in Deutschland.

I have highlighted some new words that I have learned. Overall, the paragraph was not hard to understand. I first tried to read the text without looking up those highlighted words and I could get the gist of what the paragraph is trying to say.

Mainly it talks about the city's cultural history. Below is my own translation:

Culture

The most famous son of the city is Johann Wolfgan von Goethe. His birthplace is in the Great Deerditch (I assume this is the name of the street that he was born) where he writes <The Sorrows of Young Werther>. In the philosophy history of the 20th century the "Frankfurt School" of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer takes a prominent position. Absolutely recommendable for culturally interested people is the visit to the Frankfurt Opera, which is considered one of the best music theater in Europe. The city offers, with mroe than 60 bigger and smaller houses, a unique museum landscape. Internationally important museums for film, architecture, applied arts as well as the Jewish museum and the museum for modern art are grouped as the museum shore along the Main River. The national culture section FAZ belongs to the cultural key media of Germany.

Below is the meaning of the highlighted words:

berühmtest: superlative form of "berühmt," meaning "famous, renowned."
Jahrhundert: century
markant: prominent
Stellung: position, job
Unbedingt: absolutely
gilt: infinitive form is "gelten," meaning "to be meant for sth, to be regarded as sth."
bietet: infinitive form is "bieten," meaning "to offer."
einzigartig: unique
landschaft: landscape, countryside, scenery
Museumsufer: museum shore ("Ufer" means "shore, bank.")
bedeutend: important, significant, considerable
angewandt: applied
überregional: national
Feuilleton: culture section
Leitmedien: key media

Below is the link of the webpage:
http://www.goethe.de/ins/de/ort/fra/sta/deindex.htm