A-Track Online Language Courses
Course type: Online language course, A-Track
Contact hours: The coursework corresponds to an on-site course in term II amounting to 108 contact hours.
Course days: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
Time: 4 pm - 8:30 pm CEST
ECTS credits: 7
Course fee: € 1,750
Student Profile
This course is designed for beginners with basic knowledge of German.
Course Objectives
This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will continue to develop and expand basic competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to
- navigate various everyday situations (in a German-speaking environment) and engage in simple conversations.
- Successfully use reading strategies to understand short newspaper articles and literary texts.
- write short texts on various topics and revise and correct them independently.
- understand, in some detail, features of conversations and lectures dealing with familiar topics.
Course type: Online language course, A-Track
Contact hours: The coursework corresponds to an on-site course in term II amounting to 108 contact hours.
Course days: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
Time: 4 pm - 8:30 pm CEST
ECTS credits: 7
Course fee: € 1,750
Student Profile
This course is designed for students who have successfully completed the basic level of German and who have a sound knowledge of German at the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Course Objectives
This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will further develop and expand your competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to
- use new strategies for learning and using the German language.
- participate in conversations and discussions of various topics in a German-speaking environment.
- successfully use reading strategies to understand texts of various levels of difficulty and from a variety of genres.
- write texts of various length on a range of topics and revise and correct them independently.