Language requirements

The application-oriented exchange program is entirely in English and requires no German proficiency.

For daily life and life on campus, you can learn or improve your German in courses at the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication (ZSI) in both the Research internships and the Applied study semester.

If you participate in the Research internship program, please consider that the time schedule of the language courses must be in accordance with your laboratory schedule. However, you can arrange the schedules with your supervising professor in advance.

Courses at the ZSI provide different numbers of credits. Please take a look at the course offer.

For individual practice, the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication helps you find a tandem: You match with an English-learning student and meet to practice and improve your language skills in a way both agree on.

If you have any questions, Maria Lena Weinkam, our coordinator at the ZSI, will readily assist you.

Would you like to test your German skills? Try by the self-test of Ernst Klett Verlag. The level of the questions is constantly increasing. When you decide to stop testing, you can finish this test by clicking on "Alles einreichen" at the bottom on the left, and you will receive your result.