Deutsch: A2.2

Thanks to your basic language skills, you can already understand your German-language environment in simple everyday situations much better. Take the next step and become a more active and confident speaker yourself.

This course is a continuation of Deutsch als Fremdsprache: A2.1 and covers chapters 7–12 in Netzwerk neu A2.2. Participants will train for various linguistic situations from daily, academic, and professional life.

You will expand your vocabulary and grammar through texts, videos, and audio clips on topics like travel and transportation, learning, everyday working life, exercise, free time, living situations, the past, time (problems), entertainment, and art. You will learn to express yourself appropriately in various concrete daily and conversational situations—for example, how to express and react politely to questions, suggestions, advice, and desires—and to write short and simple messages and texts.

Important grammar topics will include indirect questions, subjunctive II, prepositions of place for indicating location, positional and directional verbs with prepositions of place and other prepositional verbs, the simple past tense, temporal clauses, an expansion of linking words for main and subordinate clauses, and an introduction to relative clauses.

German, the target language, is the language of instruction; English may occasionally be used as an auxiliary language.

Course information

freie Plätze verfügbar
Course level
A2.2
Date
10.03.2026 - 26.05.2026
Tuesday, 16:00 - 18:00
32 Lessons
Lecturer
Ursula Riethmüller, lic. phil.
Credit points
2 ECTS
Registration deadline
Sunday 22.02.2026
Course fee
Students and PhD candidates: CHF 343.00
Members of staff: CHF 643.00
Alumni: CHF 643.00
Registration

Course materials

Netzwerk neu A2.2 - Hybride Ausgabe allango, Kurs- und Übungsbuch; Klett Verlag 2024; ISBN: 978-3-12-607287-8

The following grammar text is recommended for self-study:

Grammatik aktiv - Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Übungsgrammatik (A1-B1); 2. aktualisierte Ausgabe, Cornelsen Verlag Berlin (ISBN: 978-3-06-122964-1).

Further details will be found in the course confirmation. Please do not acquire the course materials before then.

Attendance

Number of absences allowed: 2

Coursework

Participants are expected to:
  • participate actively in class;
  • complete learning assessments;
  • spend 3 hours per course session on preparing and reviewing the lesson and on autonomous learning.

Credit points

To earn the credit points, students must fulfill the attendance requirement, complete the coursework, and pass the required number of assessments. The course is graded on a pass-fail basis.

Important

The courses and services offered by the Language Center are open to the groups of people listed under Eligibility for Admission. Students must also be matriculated:
a) students at the University of Basel should enter their matriculation number on the registration form;
b) students from other Swiss universities or EUCOR universities should upload a valid confirmation of their matriculation when registering.
Registrations without proof of student status will not be considered.

Placement test

To register for this course, you are required to demonstrate that you are on the corresponding language level in one of the following ways:

a) on the registration form, note the title and semester of a successfully completed course at the University of Basel Language Center from the last two semesters; or
b) upload an officially recognized language certificate or a confirmation of a language course, both from the last two years, during registration; or
c) take a placement test and upload a PDF or other copy of the results during registration.

Date for rescheduled sessions

If the course instructor has to cancel one or more sessions, they will be re-scheduled for Saturday, 9 May 2026, between 10:00 and 16:00.

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