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... I am looking forward to new challenges and working with this amicable, uncomplicated team ...
Lea Lemmer
Growing up near Aachen in the municipality of Vaals on the border between Germany and the Netherlands, I was fortunate that my parents sent me to kindergarten and primary school in the Dutch town of Heerlen. I am grateful to this day that I am now bilingual as a result of my upbringing. And after switching to senior school in Aachen, it soon became clear that I had a talent for, and really enjoyed, foreign languages, so it came as no surprise that I chose English as my main foreign language, adding French and finally Spanish into the equation. After graduating from senior school, I spent six months as an au-pair in the US, before studying communications research (majoring in computer linguistics), American studies and Dutch at the University of Bonn.