Prerequisite: none

The A1 German courses are designed to develop, deepen and expand your skills for active participation in everyday and working life in a German-speaking environment. The priority is everyday language and orientation in traffic, shopping, meeting new people and the workplace. The required vocabulary is developed systematically and conceptually. One focus is on practical, communicative use of language when reading, speaking and writing in class. Both receptive and reproductive language skills are taught right from the start! Grammatical structures are linked to topics of everyday language use and can be applied directly.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

• Express yourself appropriately in simple everyday situations
• Use sentences and utterances that will support your everyday life
• provide information about yourself, your family, your work area and individual preferences
• Formulate short personal letters and emails
• use of past tense

Prerequisite: completion of level A1 or an A1 result in the placement test.

Our A2 German courses deepen your language skills in reading, listening, writing and speaking. Reading and listening comprehension is taught through helpful topics such as culture, the world of work, body language, living environment and shopping. Personal and official letters and emails are practiced in the written area. In addition, everyday situations are taken into account and everyday conversations are learned. The grammar includes clause linkage, simple past, perfect, personal pronouns, prepositions and final subordinate clauses. 

At the end of the course you will be able to:

• Understand and express factual information in familiar areas
• Formulate letters, emails and short messages
• Talk and write about the past
• Express your own opinion in detail

• Prerequisite: completion of level A2 or an A2 result in the placement test.

The focus of the B1 German courses is on the fast and systematic expansion of your vocabulary as well as the purposeful training of written and oral communication skills. The previously learned grammar is deepened and expanded. Increasing your vocabulary makes conversations more versatile and easier. In addition, exercises on grammar and training in writing and speaking skills will help you talk about the topics of vacation, neighbors, environment, online shopping, television and memories.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

• Understand, present and discuss facts of everyday life as well as scientific areas
• Easily follow level B1 reading and listening texts
• Talk about your familiar workplace
• clearly explain your own point of view

Prerequisite: completion of level B1 or a B1 result in the placement test.

In our B2 German courses you will learn to filter and understand important content of complex texts on concrete and abstract topics and to lead your own specialty and specialist discussions. You will learn through specific exercises to speak specifically, to actively discuss and to spontaneously write written texts. The basis for this learning is formed by subject areas of culture, health and body, history, feelings and emotions, future and working language. Grammar structures are linked to these topics and language acts.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

• Express wishes, give recommendations and advice
• present your current or future profession in detail
• actively participate in discussions
• Express yourself in the German professional world without major restrictions
• Make calls in German
• Write texts

Prerequisite: completion of level B2 or a B2 result in the placement test.

In the C1 German courses your language skills in the areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking will be deepened and consolidated further. You will learn to understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and be able to talk to a native German speaker without difficulty.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

• Spontaneously express yourself fluently, without visibly having to search for words
• Use the language flexibly in social and professional life or in training and studies without great effort
• Express yourself clearly, structured and in detail on more complex issues
• Understand and work on texts about society, business, technology and science at a high level
• Clearly explain complex issues in writing and orally
• Understand German films, audio files and conversations and react to them with little effort
• Understand information from audio files, films and conversations between native speakers and respond appropriately
• Writing, understanding and analyzing texts for your studies and wo

If you are fluent in a foreign language and would like to study or work in Germany, you usually have to prove your knowledge of the language through a language certificate or a test.

In case of the German language, there is a test which certifies a language suitability for a course:

• DSH-2 – for more information about DSH