Objectives, not hours
Each level is defined by can-do statements. You know in advance what you should be able to do, and you can check it.
One continuous path from your first sentences to confident mastery — six levels, explicit objectives, and practice in all four skills.
Classes are taught in German. This website is available in German, English, French and Spanish.
A language course that follows the Common European Framework. Every level has stated objectives, every week has the same shape, and every unit ends with something you produced yourself — spoken or written.
The Framework is the spine of this course. Each level builds on the one below, and each describes what you can DO afterwards — not how many hours you sat through.
You learn to introduce yourself, ask about everyday things, and talk about yourself in simple sentences.
You understand sentences on topics of immediate relevance and can act for yourself in simple routine situations.
You deal with most situations that come up while travelling, and can talk about experiences and plans as connected speech.
You understand the main ideas of complex text and can interact with a degree of fluency that makes normal conversation possible.
You understand demanding, longer texts and express yourself fluently without obviously searching for words.
You understand virtually everything you read and hear, and express yourself effortlessly, precisely and with fine shades of meaning.
Five steps, the same every week.
New structures and new vocabulary, always inside a topic rather than as a list.
Guided exercises until the structure works without thinking about it.
Free speaking on the week's topic — the part most courses cut short.
A response to what you produced: specific, about your sentences.
Targeted revision of what has not settled yet, before the next unit starts.
Each level is defined by can-do statements. You know in advance what you should be able to do, and you can check it.
Speaking is not a goal for later. It is part of every week, from A1 onwards.
Corrections are about what you wrote or said, not about a model answer.
The task formats of the common exams are part of teaching, so the exam is not a new exercise.
Teaching is organised the same way at every level.
Tell us where you are and what you want to reach. We will recommend a level.