Intensive German Courses

  • Duration: 3 weeks, 12 class days
  • Participants per class: max. 5 people
  • When: Monday to Thursday, 9:00 – 11:30 AM or 11:30 AM - 1:45 PM
  • Level: A1-B1
  • Lessons: 36 teaching units (TUs), 12 TUs per week
  • Price: €399   
  • Each course level includes 72 TUs
  • TU* = Teaching Unit (45 minutes)

The courses run from July to December in the mornings.

Niveau A1

Our A1 Intensive German Course is divided into two modules: A1.1 and A1.2. These modules are based on the lessons in the coursebook used.

The modules can be taken individually and don't build on each other. This means every course block is open to everyone, even if you haven’t attended previous courses or modules.

German A1.1 Intensive Course

Course Content

  1. Greetings and Well-being: Saying hello and goodbye, asking how someone is, introducing yourself and others.
  2. Personal Info and Jobs: Talking about jobs and personal topics, creating business cards, online profiles, and short texts about yourself.
  3. Family: Discussing family and language skills using dialogues and film excerpts.
  4. Shopping and Furniture: Offering advice, asking about prices, giving opinions.
  5. Objects and Products: Asking for words, describing objects, filling out forms, and giving thanks.
  6. Office and Technology: Phone conversations, email, and SMS strategies.
  7. Leisure and Compliments: Talking about hobbies, making compliments, asking for things, and expressing gratitude.
  8. Leisure and Appointments: Making plans, proposing ideas, responding to invitations, writing messages, and canceling plans.
  9. Food and Home Invitations: Discussing food preferences, eating habits, and reading comics.
  10. Travel and Transport: Understanding announcements, making inquiries, ending phone calls.
  11. Daily Routine and the Past: Talking about past events, creating schedules, writing emails, and describing routines.
  12. Celebrations and the Past: Talking about events, festivals, and traveling, using interviews and informational texts.

Grammar

The grammar topics covered in A1.1 include:

  • Verb conjugation (singular) / W-questions
  • Verb conjugation (plural) / Negation with "nicht" / Noun formation with "-in"
  • Yes/no questions, "ja-nein-doch"
  • Possessive articles "mein/dein"
  • Verbs with vowel changes
  • Definite articles "der/das/die"
  • Personal pronouns "er/es/sie"
  • Indefinite articles "ein/eine"
  • Negative articles "kein/keine"
  • Singular/plural / Accusative
  • Modal verbs "können" / Sentence structure
  • Verb position / Temporal prepositions "am, um"
  • Conjugation of "mögen, möchte" / Compound nouns
  • Separable verbs
  • Perfect tense with "haben/sein" / Temporal prepositions "von…bis, ab, im"

Coursebook(s): Menschen – Deutsch als Fremdsprache A1.1 (Hueber)

German A1.2 Intensive Course

Course Content

  1. Giving directions: Asking for and giving help with directions.
  2. Living: Describing and evaluating homes, housing ads, writing emails.
  3. In the City: Asking about facilities, reviewing locations, writing a blog.
  4. Appointments: Offering and asking for help, responding to apologies, scheduling and rescheduling appointments via email.
  5. Plans and Wishes: Expressing wishes, talking about plans, creative writing.
  6. Health and Illness: Describing pain, giving advice, discussing illnesses.
  7. Statements and Characters: Small talk, describing people, reacting with surprise.
  8. Household: Requests and instructions, diary entries, emails.
  9. Rules: Expressing opinions, talking about rules, writing columns.
  10. Clothing: Talking about and evaluating clothing, enhancing statements, forum posts.
  11. Weather: Giving reasons, discussing weather, writing blogs and postcards.
  12. Celebrations and Parties: Expressing wishes, congratulating, invitations.

Grammar

The grammar topics covered in A1.2 include:

  • Local prepositions / Dative
  • Possessive articles "sein/ihr" / Genitive with proper nouns
  • Verbs with dative / Personal pronouns in dative
  • Temporal prepositions "vor, nach, in, für"
  • Prepositions "mit/ohne"
  • Modal verbs "wollen, sollen"
  • Imperative (formal)
  • Simple past "war, hatte"
  • Perfect tense with inseparable verbs
  • Imperative (informal) / Personal pronouns in accusative
  • Comparison and superlatives
  • Noun formation with "-los" / Conjunction "denn"
  • Conditional II "würde" / Ordinal numbers

Coursebook(s): Menschen – Deutsch als Fremdsprache A1.2 (Hueber)

Niveau A2

A2-level learners build on their A1 knowledge and gain more confidence in expressing themselves in German.

Our A2 German course is divided into two modules: A2.1 and A2.2. These modules follow the lessons from the coursebook used.

You can take the modules individually, and they don’t depend on each other. This means each course block is open to everyone, even if you haven’t attended previous courses or modules.

German A2.1 Intensive Course

Course Content

  1. Jobs and Family: Talking about jobs, telling family stories, giving advice on room decor, creative writing.
  2. Tourism: Sharing preferences and wishes, reviewing tourist brochures and ads.
  3. Shopping: Talking about preferences while shopping.
  4. City Tours: Planning together, reporting on trips, writing letters, postcards, or emails.
  5. Culture: Making plans, rejecting or agreeing to suggestions, writing about events.
  6. Sports and Fitness: Asking for advice, creating fitness plans, contributing to forums.
  7. Health and Illness: Expressing sympathy, concern, and hope, writing forum posts.
  8. Work Life: Highlighting importance, discussing documentaries.
  9. At the Restaurant: Ordering food, complaining politely, paying the bill.
  10. Company Profiles: Giving feedback, expressing gratitude, writing interviews or articles.
  11. Nutrition: Comparing items, expressing surprise, conducting interviews.

Grammar

The A2.1 course covers the following grammar topics:

  • Possessive articles: "unser, euer" / Review of perfect and past tense
  • Prepositions with dative and accusative / Verbs with prepositions
  • Word formation: verb + "-er" and verb + "-ung"
  • Adjective declension with indefinite and definite articles
  • Temporal prepositions: "über, von…an"
  • Konjunktiv II: "könnte, sollte" / Temporal prepositions: "zwischen"
  • Conjunctions: "weil, deshalb, dass"
  • Reflexive verbs
  • Adjective declension without articles
  • Conjunction: "wenn"

Coursebook(s): Menschen – Deutsch als Fremdsprache A2.1 (Hueber)

German A2.2 Intensive Course

Course Content

  1. Language Learning: Talking about learning experiences.
  2. Post and Communication: Expressing joy, reading instructions, writing letters.
  3. Media: Discussing TV habits, analyzing texts.
  4. At the Hotel: Booking a room, giving directions.
  5. Travel and Transport: Talking about travel habits, keeping a travel blog.
  6. Weather and Climate: Discussing weather, reading informational texts.
  7. Cultural Events: Convincing others, reacting to suggestions, event calendars.
  8. Books and Press: Expressing interest or disinterest, reviewing magazines.
  9. Government and Administration: Requesting reports, writing descriptions.
  10. Mobility and Traffic: Explaining concepts, giving instructions.
  11. Education and Jobs: Expressing satisfaction or dissatisfaction, writing job profiles.
  12. Working Abroad: Expressing excitement or disappointment, creating employee profiles.

Grammar

The A2.2 course covers these grammar topics:

  • Conjunction: "als"
  • Present Passive: "Das Päckchen wird gepackt."
  • Verbs with dative and accusative / Object placement in sentences
  • Indirect questions: "ob, wie lange"
  • Local prepositions: "am Meer, ans Meer"
  • Prepositional verbs: "sich interessieren für"
  • Modal verbs in past tense: "dürfte, konnte"
  • Relative clauses with nominative and accusative
  • Conjunctions: "bis, seit(dem)"

Coursebook(s): Menschen – Deutsch als Fremdsprache A2.2 (Hueber)

Niveau B1

Our B1 German course is divided into two modules, B1.1 and B1.2. The division of these modules is based on the coursebook used.

B1 learners can understand texts that include everyday or work-related language. They can grasp texts that describe events, feelings, and wishes. They’re able to speak in simple, connected sentences to describe experiences, events, dreams, hopes, and goals. They can also tell stories or summarize the plot of a book or movie while describing their reactions. Writing personal letters to share experiences and impressions is also part of their skill set.

The modules can be taken individually and don’t build on each other. This means every course block is open to everyone, even if you haven’t attended previous courses or modules.

German B1.1 Intensive Course

Course Content

  1. Friendship: Describing people.
  2. Jobs and Work: Evaluating past events, writing reports, emails, confirmations, and summaries.
  3. Living: Discussing statistics, analyzing magazine texts.
  4. Customer Service: Making complaints, phone call strategies, dealing with issues.
  5. Future: Expressing guesses about the future, gathering survey opinions.
  6. Invitations: Writing semi-formal invitations and advice columns.
  7. Consultations: Conducting customer advice sessions.
  8. Career Choices: Sharing opinions, taking tests.
  9. Health: Giving presentations, creating health promotion programs.
  10. Missed Opportunities: Expressing disappointment, reacting to it, writing comments.
  11. Moments of Happiness: Commenting emotionally, writing blog posts.
  12. Workplace Celebrations: Writing letters and emails: invitations, cancellations, acceptances.

Grammar

Key grammar topics in the B1.1 course include:

  • Adjectives as nouns; n-declension
  • Simple past tense (Präteritum)
  • Relative clauses in dative and with prepositions
  • Conjunctions and prepositions: "obwohl, trotzdem, falls, da, während, bevor"
  • Future tense (Futur I)
  • Infinitive with "zu"
  • Adjective declension with comparative and superlative
  • Conditional II (past)
  • Past perfect (Plusquamperfekt) with "haben" and "sein"
  • Genitive; adjective declension in genitive; preposition "trotz"

Coursebook(s): Menschen – Deutsch als Fremdsprache B1.1 (Hueber)

German B1.2 Intensive Course

Course Content

  1. Language: Talking about misunderstandings, clarifying and ensuring understanding.
  2. Further Education: Making recommendations, reviewing course programs.
  3. Job Applications: Preparing for interviews, analyzing job ads, writing cover letters.
  4. Youth and Memories: Talking about past experiences, reacting to stories.
  5. Biographies: Retelling life stories.
  6. Politics and Society: Discussing reports, participating in surveys.
  7. Tourism: Giving presentations, handling press conferences.
  8. Rules: Discussing rules, writing house rules or guestbook entries.
  9. Concerts and Events: Creating ads, blogs, and interviews.
  10. History: Summarizing historical events, expressing wishes.
  11. Environment and Climate: Expressing agreement or indifference, conducting interviews.
  12. Future Visions: Expressing convictions, writing magazine articles.

Grammar

Key grammar topics in the B1.2 course include:

  • Conjunctions and adverbs: "darum, deswegen, daher" / Preposition "wegen"
  • Present and past participles as adjectives: "fascinating insights"
  • Compound conjunctions: "nicht nur … sondern auch; sowohl … als auch"
  • "nicht/nur brauchen" + infinitive + "zu"
  • Expressions with "es"
  • Compound conjunctions: "weder … noch; entweder … oder; zwar … aber"
  • Compound conjunction "je … desto/umso"
  • Modal particles: "denn, doch, eigentlich, ja"
  • Conjunctions: "indem, sodass"
  • Prepositions: "innerhalb, außerhalb, um … herum"
  • Passive forms with modal verbs in present and perfect
  • Conjunctions: "anstatt/ohne … zu," "anstatt/ohne dass"
  • Conjunctions: "damit, um … zu, als ob"

Coursebook(s): Menschen – Deutsch als Fremdsprache B1.2 (Hueber)