{"id":1685,"date":"2025-08-07T12:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=1685"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:46:04","slug":"adam-vradenburg","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/people\/adam-vradenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Vradenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Program:<\/strong>&nbsp;BIB\/08<br><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Website: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vradenburg.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vradenburg.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-did-you-choose-this-particular-language\">How learning German has influenced my life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In high school I had a history teacher who spoke often about the modern world and economy, and he really sparked my interest in Germany \u2013 so much so that applying to university I picked a degree with a language minor and a mandatory year abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heading overseas towards a partner university for two semesters, I had no idea Germany would become the starting place for my career and my second home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studying German at Carleton prepared me for the immersive experience; on exchange I was able to round off my \u201ctextbook\u201d German with practical experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating I moved back to Europe, where I\u2019ve lived for eight years in total, the last two and a half of which were in Berlin. Before moving to the country\u2019s capital and largest city, I had lived in both a medium-sized and large city \u2013 in Mannheim where I studied and in Cologne where I worked for three years. In these cities speaking the language is practically a necessity. Even here in Berlin, which is very metropolitan with plenty of expats and English-speakers, having a command of the local language is imperative to integrating fully to local life and a major advantage for finding a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working in a foreign language means being more than conversational but also being proficient in writing \u2013 with proper grammar, business vocabulary, etc. \u2013 and Carleton provided me with this essential foundation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":1686,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Adam","cu_people_last_name":"Vradenburg","cu_people_initials":"AV","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[44,49],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-1685","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-german-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Minor in German","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1685\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}