Do you want to expand your vocabulary and put the finishing touches on your knowledge of grammar? Do you have to, for business reasons, brush up on your German quickly and effectively, cope with business correspondence and perfect your speaking ability? The most efficient way to learn a language is definitely the one-on-one lesson. You enjoy the undivided attention of the teacher and decide the pace, number of hours per day, duration and content yourself.

We at ADK want our customers to achieve the best results in the shortest possible time. With the newest methods and lesson materials, in combination with job-specific lesson units and highly qualified, experienced teachers, our courses correspond exactly to your own ideas. With your help, we draw up an individual timetable to cater exactly to your needs!

German Intensive Plus: your individual langauge training program

25 lessons per week Intensive Course in the mornings plus 5 or 10 one-to-one lessons.
These courses are especially suited if you are looking for a tailor-made course to improve your German for business reasons and you haven’t got much time!

Individual emphases

It is your decision, if you want to put the main emphasis on thematic aspects [e.g. terminology] or as regards content [translation, conversation, correspondence …]. Before you start a course, we determine your personal language demands, what you want or need to learn in the time attending the course.

If your employer books the course for you with certain ideas, we determine these as well.

Times

Intensive course: Monday to Friday 8:45 am – 12:45 pm
One-to-one lessons: according to arrangement

Method

Improvement of your German knowledge

We introduce you to your new teacher and have a detailed conversation, where we assess your level, ask you about your study experience and discuss your wishes and objectives for the course. On the basis of this conversation and in conjunction with the senior staff, we draw up the course concept and choose the most suitable method for you.

Our teachers can cater to your personal wishes, questions and areas of difficulty with learning German in these lessons.
These additional lessons are suitable for every level of ability, however, we do not recommend them for absolute beginners.

Course description

The course covers, at elementary level, the following:

• the mastery of everyday situations
• making general conversation
• telephone manner
• reading and writing basic texts
• understanding German traditions and customs

At intermediate level, existing knowledge is deepened , or specific subject-related vocabulary built up.

• making business conversation
• expressing ideas and opinions
• corresponding efficiently
• handling unexpected situations
• ecognizing differences in
• culture and mentality
• conducting meetings
• reading and writing specific
• subject-related texts

Course levels

All course levels are offered, from beginner to advanced. A placement test is taken at the very beginning, in order for us to get a good picture of your strengths and weaknesses. The careful evaluation of this test, together with your in-person interview, serves as the basis for the Individual Course.

Quality

Our lecturers are highly qualified language teachers with tertiary qualifications in the field of German as a Foreign Language and related disciplines.
We have years of experience with both one-on-one and small group lessons. We teach both casual and formal German and have held courses in the branches of Automobile and Automotive, Banking, Technology and Electronics, Retail, Finance, Marketing and Personal Services. We adapt ourselves quickly to newly-appearing fields. The Augsburger Deutschkurse are a member of the ‘Association of Specialists of Modern Foreign Languages’ and prize-winner of the European Language Seal award in 2004. We are registered as a bearer of Integration Courses by the Federal Ministry of Migration and Refugees, and have been accredited by the Swedish National Board [CSN] for the support of further education.