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Friendly, welcoming place to learn/review German in Berlin

Polly, 41, from United States – June 26, 2013

Stay: 1 month, Course Start: 2013 , Accomodation:

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The Good & the Bad - what did you like best? What least?

What I liked best:

The campus is lovely and located in a great neighborhood.

The after-class activities that I participated in were interesting and really helped as a supplement to the course work.

My instructors were very helpful and clearly explained everything.

Suggested improvements:

More tours as part of the after class activities. The two that I went on were fantastic, but there were only two offered in the month I was there.

I would've appreciated more free conversation time in class. I got a little frustrated at times with the constant grammar corrections. I understand that I need to learn the grammar, but I needed more practice with communicating too. Maybe an hour a week or so where we just converse with minimal corrections.

Tandem partner program - perhaps I've missed this in information in the school, but I would like to continue my students and keep practicing with German speakers and am finding this difficult.

Your recommendations for other students

Immerse yourself! The after-class activities were like getting extra instruction for free/low cost as they were all in German. For most of them, the German spoken was very simple and most levels were accommodated. I was B1 level; I followed along fine and most of the time learned new things.