Faces of Tribland: Pat & Erich Vogel
Erich Vogel and his father, Pat Vogel, have a knack for languages.
Pat is the German teacher at Hastings High School and Erich, a
May 2012 graduate of Adams Central High School, left last week
to study Mandarin for a year in Shanghai.
Foreign languages, it seems, are in the Vogel family’s genes.
After living for some years in Germany, there was always a “bitte” here and a “danke” there at home. But youngest son Erich broke the mold a few years ago when he took up Mandarin.
Erich, a 2012 graduate of Adams Central High School, left last week for Shanghai, China, where he will intensively study the language for a year at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated High School.
For five to six hours a day he will study nothing but Mandarin. He will stay in a dormitory during the five-day school week and live with a host family on the weekends.
“He’s very gifted at learning languages,” Erich’s mom, Sarah, said. “I think it runs in the genes.”
The genes she’s talking about are those of husband Pat, the German teacher at Hastings High School.
“It comes easy for him,” Sarah said. “He’s learned German by osmosis from his dad.”
Erich Vogel and his father, Pat Vogel, have a knack for languages.
Pat is the German teacher at Hastings High School and Erich, a
May 2012 graduate of Adams Central High School, left last week
to study Mandarin for a year in Shanghai.
After living for some years in Germany, there was always a “bitte” here and a “danke” there at home. But youngest son Erich broke the mold a few years ago when he took up Mandarin.
Erich, a 2012 graduate of Adams Central High School, left last week for Shanghai, China, where he will intensively study the language for a year at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated High School.
For five to six hours a day he will study nothing but Mandarin. He will stay in a dormitory during the five-day school week and live with a host family on the weekends.
“He’s very gifted at learning languages,” Erich’s mom, Sarah, said. “I think it runs in the genes.”
The genes she’s talking about are those of husband Pat, the German teacher at Hastings High School.
“It comes easy for him,” Sarah said. “He’s learned German by osmosis from his dad.”
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