This intensive course trains all four language skills – speaking, writing, listening, and reading – with a view to improving your oral and written communication skills in particular. Central content and topics of the A2 language level are addressed. This includes simple conversations about past events and unambiguous communication in various everyday situations (e.g. sales encounters, telephone conversations); understanding short spoken texts (e.g. loudspeaker announcements); and writing brief, simple texts (e.g. text messages and emails). The addressed topics (reading and listening) take into account the Swiss context in which you live and work.
Focused grammar input appropriate to participants' entry level allows them to improve their use of declinations, conjugations, syntax, and tenses (perfect and simple past).
Our goal is to strengthen your knowledge of German, enhance your communication skills, expand your vocabulary, and recognizably improve your language competence.
At the end of the course, you can receive an individual consultation with the instructor about potential German courses in our semester program. You can register for such a consultation during the course.
The total break time will be 30 minutes per session.
The language of instruction is the target language, German; English will only be used occasionally as an auxiliary language.