Certificate of Achievement
This document certifies that the student named below has satisfied all requirements for course completion, and is entitled to all rights pertaining thereto.  The bearer is hereby granted the privilege to purchase a frame suited to the dimensions of this certificate, and to display the framed certificate on a wall or partition of bearer's choice. Further, it permits this bearer to reference the suitably framed document on any future vitae, resumes, or bulletin-board postings, and to leverage its application toward the furtherance of the bearer's intent.  At the very least, it suggests that the achiever recognizes that all German nouns ending in "ung" are feminine in gender, and that 95% of nouns ending in "e" are also feminine. The certified achiever recognizes that the German language has three (3) genders, signals function by means of four (4) cases, and is flexible enough to accommodate singular and plural nouns.  When visiting the zoo in Berlin, the individual named below may confidently ask: "Gibt es ein Nilpferd im Zoo?" The bearer may, with impunity, translate "Please?" as "Bitte?"
Name:	Datum:
Lehrer:	Affix blue star from the dollar store here