Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning

German

Co-ordinating Lecturer(s)

• Helga Eckart Tel/Ffôn: (029) 2087 5336 Email/Ebost: Eckart@cardiff.ac.uk

Further information:

• Goethe Institut certification
• We are the first accredited German language centre in Wales

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German Courses

• German Conversation for Post-Beginners

  This intensive course is for you if you have attended one year of part-time study or you have rusty 'O' Levels (GCSE) in German. You will get ample opportunity to practise your German conversational skills in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere. Audio/Visual aids will be used throughout the course. Follow on course: German for Improvers.

• German Conversation for Improvers

  This intensive course is for you if you have attended two or three years of part-time study or you have recently gained a GCSE in German. You will actively engage in conversation and listening skills supported by audio-visual aids. Students who attended the German Conversation for Post Beginners are also welcome.

• Sprachtraining Deutsch

  This course is for you if you have attended 5+ years of part-time study and/or if you have a good knowledge of German and you want to further practise your conversation skills. This course will make extensive use of audio/visual materials and there will be ample opportunity to expand your active vocabulary.

• German for Beginners

  This course aims to provide you with a grounding in the basic grammatical structures of German in order to communicate at a basic level in essential social and survival situations in German speaking countries. In order to maximise your acquired speaking skills this course will be followed by a shorter module concentrating entirely on speaking and listening (Speaking German- Beginners).

• Speaking German (Beginners)

  This course will give you an opportunity to practise your speaking and listening skills in survival situations. The exercises will be based around the topics you have covered in the German for Beginners class, but new students, who have some knowledge of German, are also welcome. You will consolidate your skills by talking about yourself, your family, ordering food and drink, asking for directions etc. Listening exercises will take place in our multi-media language laboratory.

• German for Beginners - Stage A

  This course aims to provide you with a grounding in the basic grammatical structures of German in order to communicate at a basic level in essential social and survival situations in German speaking countries. Though the emphasis is on speaking you will also learn grammatical structures and sentence pattern, which will form the basis for further progression in German.

• German for Improvers - Stage B

  This course will enable you to use a broader but still limited range of oral, aural and written language skills. Though the emphasis is on speaking you will also learn more grammatical structures and sentence pattern, which are essential for further progression in German.

• German for Post-Beginners

  This course will enable you to use a broader but still limited range of oral, aural and written language skills. Though the emphasis is on speaking you will also learn more grammatical structures and sentence pattern, which are essential for further progression in German. In class you will get ample opportunity to speak through pair-work and group exercises; listen to authentic audio/video tapes; read short texts and complete exercises which will enhance your vocabulary and your knowledge of grammar.

• Wir sprechen Deutsch!

  This course is aimed at higher intermediate or advanced students who want to gain more confidence in order to prepare for the speaking and listening part of the Goethe- Institut Certificates B1 and/or B2. It is also aimed at confidence building for students who feel that speaking and listening holds them back from progressing. We will concentrate on the acquisition of strategies to understand important information from radio broadcasts. Students will enhance their speaking skills by actively taking part in conversation practise on general subjects determined by them. The course will be conducted entirely in German.

• Speaking German (Post-Beginners)

  This course will give you an opportunity to practise your basic speaking and listening skills in a practical context. The exercises will be based around the topics you have covered in the German for Post-Beginners class, but new students, who have some knowledge of German, are also welcome. You will consolidate your skills by talking about yourself, education, jobs and working life, holidays, hobbies and leisure time, money and shopping. Listening exercises will take place in our multi-media language laboratory.

• Intermediate German - Stage C

  This course will enable you to use a broader range of oral, aural and written language skills, sufficient to get by in German speaking countries with some hesitations on topics concerned with everyday matters and express your view in writing in a more elaborate style. You will also further develop your understanding of the culture of German speaking countries.

• Higher-Intermediate German

  This course will enable you to use a broader range of oral, aural and written language skills, sufficient to become an independent user of German. You will You will learn to express yourself in a more complex style on both concrete and abstract topics. You will also further develop your understanding of the culture of German speaking countries.

• Speaking German (Higher-Intermediate)

  The emphasis of the course is on speaking and in class you will get ample opportunity to practise your conversational skills through pair-work and group exercises; listen to authentic audio/video tapes.The exercises will be based around the topics you have covered in the Higher-Intermediate German class, but new students, who have some knowledge of German, are also welcome.

• Higher Intermediate German - Stage D

  This course will enable you to use a broad range of oral, aural and written language skills, sufficient to speak freely in German about selected topics. You will also practise listening skills which will enable you to understand German at news-reading speed.

• Advanced German - Stage E

  This course will enable you to further develop your oral, aural and written language in order to express yourself confidently on most general topics, without much conspicuous searching for words and using some complex sentence forms to do so. You will consolidate and expand your understanding of the structure of the language and the culture of German speaking countries.

• Advanced German - Stage F

  This course will enable you to further develop your oral, aural and written language in order to express yourself fluently and spontaneously. You will further consolidate and expand your understanding of the structure of German by analysing and discussing cultural, social and political issues of German speaking countries.

• Advanced German Aural and Oral Skills II

  Dieser Kurs richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Lernende, die ihre mündlichen Sprachfertigkeiten aufrecht erhalten und erweitern wollen. Hörverständnisübungen, Debatten und Diskussionen aktueller Themen aus Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft bilden die Basis des Kurses.

• Advanced German - Stage H

  This course will enable you to further develop your oral, aural and written language in order to express yourself fluently and spontaneously. You will further consolidate and expand your understanding of the structure of German by analysing and discussing cultural, social and political issues of German speaking countries.

• Der deutsche Gegenwartsroman

  Dieser Kurs richtet sich an Studenten mit guten Deutschkenntnissen, die gerne Bücher lesen und sich mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur beschäftigen möchten. Schwerpunkte bilden die Zeit nach dem 2. Weltkrieg, die Wende und Nachwendeliteratur, Pop und Migrationsliteratur vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen im modernen Deutschland. Eine detaillierte Liste der ausgewählten Werke entnehmen Sie bitte unserer Webseite oder kontaktieren Sie die Kursleiterin.

• Advanced German Business Language

  Dieser Kurs ist für Studenten mit guten allgemeinen Deutschkenntnissen, die ihr Vokabular im Bereich Wirtschaftsdeutsch entwickeln und sich berufssprachliche Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten aneignen wollen. Im Mittelpunkt des Kurses stehen Geschäftssituationen und -Verhandlungen, sowie die Diskussion authentischer, aktueller Artikel aus Wirtschaftsmagazinen.