Offers: K5 Basler Kurszentrum

Alpha

The literacy courses aim to integrate course participants into social, cultural and professional life. The course is a preparation for regular language courses at GER level A1.

• The course participants learn the letters of the Latin alphabet.
• They practice phonetic signs, word images and groups of letters.
• They write syllables and simple words.
• You practice reading words and sentences together.
• You acquire working techniques.
• You practice communicative action in everyday situations.

Learning Objectives

• Know the letters of the Latin alphabet
• Read and write
• The course participants learn basic techniques and skills in reading and writing.
• You acquire basic knowledge of the German language.
• They develop confidence in their own language and writing skills.
• They prepare for regular, low-threshold German courses.

Alpha and Conversation

The course is aimed at foreign-language migrants who can hardly read and write or who are not literate in Latin script. In the German offer "Alpha and Conversation" the reading and speaking skills are promoted to such an extent that the course participants can cope with the minimum oral requirements. The focus is on oral language acquisition.

Learning Objectives

• improvement of oral expression
• Hear and understand
• Improvement of communicative action in everyday situations

Basic Education – Afternoon Modules

MDK: Digital Skills, Monday, A1, A2, B1

MAU: Pronunciation, Tuesday, A1, A2, B1

MKO: Conversation, Tuesday, A2.2, B1, B2

MLS: Reading and Writing, Tuesday, A1, A2, B1, B2

MDS: German for Job Search, Thursday, A1, A2, B1, B2

Learning Objectives

MDK: A Safe, Practical Introduction to the Digital World (Apps, Programs, Device Use)

MAU: Improving spoken intelligibility

MKO: Expanding vocabulary and oral expression

MLS: Practice reading and writing

MDS: Platforms, application materials, resumes, job interviews

Deutsch intensiv - Summer course

The intensive "summer course" is aimed at foreign-language adults, women and men, who want to learn German intensively during the summer holidays in Basel. The course is related to everyday life and includes learning excursions on topics such as health, safety, the environment, leisure time and life in Switzerland.

Learning Objectives

• Development and expansion of vocabulary for everyday use
• better pronunciation and oral communication through phonetics practice and conversation
• Grammar and structures, text work
• listening and reading comprehension
• Preparation for the telc certificate (optional)

German compact

In our most intensive German course, the participants not only strengthen their self-competence, but above all their language, social and professional skills. Here they learn everyday and job-oriented German. The goal is successful integration into the labor market. The internationally recognized telc certificate exam at the end of the course also serves this purpose.

Learning Objectives

• Development and expansion of vocabulary for everyday life and work
• better pronunciation and oral communication through phonetics practice and conversation
• Grammar and structures, text work
• listening and reading comprehension
• working and learning techniques
• application techniques
• tutorials on the computer
• Preparation for the telc certificate

German for mothers and fathers of schoolchildren

Does your child attend kindergarten or elementary school? Would you like to better understand the school system and support your child? Learn German at the school!

Learning Objectives

• They learn German in a school context.
• The connection between school and family.

German for women

"German for Women" is an intensive language support program for foreign-language women with childcare that takes place four times a year. It includes action- and everyday-oriented language acquisition, promotes networking among women, strengthens self-confidence and participation.

Learning Objectives

• Development and expansion of vocabulary for everyday use
• Coping with everyday situations (school, children’s education, visits to the doctor, housing, shopping, job, job search, etc.)
• better pronunciation and oral communication through phonetics practice and conversation
• Grammar and structure, text work
• listening and reading comprehension
• working and learning techniques

German immediately+

"German immediately+" is an intensive German course format for newcomers with a focus on communication in the new everyday life, with learning excursions on topics such as health, safety, the environment, leisure time and life in Switzerland.

Learning Objectives

• Development and expansion of speaking and understanding skills;
• Information about the culture of the Basel region, its rules and codes of conduct;
• first integration into the new socio-cultural environment

German in the afternoon

"German in the afternoon" is an intensive language support program for foreign-language participants with childcare that takes place four times a year. It includes action- and everyday-oriented language acquisition with a focus on "living and working in Basel and the region.

Learning Objectives

• Development and expansion of vocabulary
• better pronunciation and oral communication through phonetics practice and conversation
• Grammar and structures, text work
• listening and reading comprehension
• working and learning techniques

German in the evening

"Deutsch am Abend" is a language support program for foreign-language women and men with a fast learning pace, which starts four times a year. It includes action- and everyday-oriented language acquisition and offers the opportunity to take an official telc exam after completing the course.

Learning Objectives

• Development and expansion of vocabulary for everyday use
• better pronunciation and oral communication through phonetics practice and conversation
• Grammar and structures, text work
• listening and reading comprehension
• working and learning techniques

German in the evening 2 in 1

"German in the evening" is a language support program for foreign-language women and men with a fast learning pace. It includes action- and everyday-oriented language acquisition and offers the opportunity to take an official telc exam after completing the course.

"German in the evening 2 in 1" takes place twice a week either as face-to-face or blended learning. This course can be attended with the free voucher from the Canton of Basel-Stadt.

Learning Objectives

• Extension of language skills
• Linguistic coping with everyday and professional situations
• Focus on living and working in Basel and the region

German in the morning

"Deutsch am Morgen" is an intensive language support program for foreign-language participants with childcare. It includes action- and everyday-oriented language acquisition with a focus on "living and working in Basel and the region.

Learning Objectives

• Development and expansion of vocabulary
• better pronunciation and oral communication through phonetics practice and conversation
• Grammar and structures, text work
• listening and reading comprehension
• working and learning techniques
• Preparation for the telc certificate (optional)

Intensive German in the afternoon

Intensive German in the Afternoon is an intensive language support program for foreign-language participants with childcare, which takes place four times a year. It comprises action-oriented and everyday language acquisition with a focus on "Living and Working in Basel and the Region."

Learning Objectives

Expanding language skills Coping with everyday and professional situations through language

Learning in the park

"Learning in the park" refers to an extensive course format that takes place in a park from May to September with four lessons per week. The course format is designed to be easily accessible with the aim of enabling those who are interested to start the course at any time.

Learning Objectives

• Extension of language skills
• Linguistic coping with everyday and professional situations
• Depending on the needs of the participants, integration of cultural aspects