German is a language of growing importance. It is one of the fundamental languages of the European Union and is spoken in several countries of the continent, not only in Germany: Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, etc. Thus, it is a language with enormous industrial and political weight, and knowing it gives access to work in these countries. This online group conversation program is perfect for those who wish to progress their oral performance in German to Level B1, while preparing to certify their level according to the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). 

Improve your expression and comprehension of German thanks to this university program and pass the CEFR Level B1 oral test"

The use and certification of languages is essential nowadays. Thus, mastering oral expression and comprehension German Level B1 can open doors to great professional and personal opportunities. For that reason, this online conversation program is perfect for those who wish to experience substantial progress in their careers. All this, with the guidance of the best native teachers specialized in language teaching.

TECH's group classes will allow you to interact with other students and native teachers, ensuring that your learning process is the most effective.

This university program will prepare you to pass the CEFR German Level B1 oral test through more than 100 activities.

It is proven that learning languages increases your Intelligence. Learning a foreign language strengthens the brain's neural networks” 

José Antonio Marina.
Philosopher, writer, and teacher.

A unique and stimulating experience

Flexible and Tailored

Take the best German conversation program, at your own pace based on your personal availability and schedule.

Acquire Skills and Abilities

With our method you will practice and consolidate the oral communication skills required at this level.

Networking

Join a large community and exchange knowledge and experiences with students from all over the world.

The main objective of these language conversation classes is to help the student master German Level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This will give you access to numerous scholarships, exchange programs, employment and administrative processes and many other opportunities. The dynamics of the program, focused on practicing the language with peers and native teachers, is vital to achieve that goal, so this degree has been carefully designed to make learning fully effective.

Practice the speaking skills and abilities required by the B1 CEFR: more than 100 different practice exercises"

General Objectives

• Use the language being learned as a means of communication and personal expression, both in the classroom and in a wide range of face-to-face and virtual situations and on both concrete and abstract topics, including cultural ones
• Understand, interact and express themselves in these situations, orally in an adequate, reasonably flexible, accurate and correct way
• Describe the sociocultural aspects related to usual situations, as well as those related to one's own environment and use the appropriate social formulas, gestures, register and treatment in these situations
• Internalize the appropriate and necessary linguistic resources for the planned communicative activities, through functional and formal practice
• Encourage and diversify the use of strategies that streamline communication and facilitate learning
• Manage tools to evaluate and improve one's own learning, use of the language

Specific Objectives

Listening

• Understand concrete everyday or work-related information and identify both the general message and specific details as long as the speech is clearly articulated and with a normal accent 
• Understand the main ideas of clear, standard speech on everyday topics related to work, school or leisure time, including short narratives
• Generally follow the main ideas of a long discussion going on around them, provided that the discourse is clearly articulated at a standard language level 
• Understand, in general terms, simple and short speeches on everyday topics provided they are delivered with standard and clear pronunciation
• Understand a lecture or talk that deals with their area of expertise, provided that the subject matter is familiar and the presentation is simple and clearly structured
• Understand simple technical information, such as operating instructions for frequently used appliances, as well as follow detailed instructions 
• Understand the main ideas of radio news and other simpler recorded material dealing with everyday topics delivered relatively slowly and clearly
• Understand the information content of most recorded or broadcast material related to topics of personal interest with clear standard pronunciation

Oral Expression

• Carry out, with a reasonable degree of fluency, a simple description of a variety of topics that are of interest to them, presenting them as a linear sequence of elements 
• Give simple descriptions on a variety of common topics within your specialty 
• Give simple narratives or descriptions with a reasonable degree of fluency following a linear sequence of elements 
• Make detailed accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions. 
• Report the details of unpredictable events, such as, for example, an accident 
• Relate book or movie plots and describe your reactions to them 
• Describe dreams, hopes and ambitions 
• Describe real or imagined events. Tell stories 
• Provide brief rationales and explanations for opinions, plans and actions
• Develop arguments well enough so that they can be understood without difficulty most of the time
• Make short rehearsed statements on a relevant topic within their specialty, which are clearly intelligible despite being accompanied by an unmistakably foreign accent and intonation 
• Deliver a brief, prepared presentation on a topic within their specialty, with sufficient clarity to be followed without difficulty most of the time and whose main ideas are explained with reasonable accuracy. Can also answer supplemental questions, but may have to ask for repetition if spoken quickly 

Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Competence 

• Broaden and diversify the knowledge of sociocultural aspects related to situations, even those that are less usual and those of one's own professional field; to successfully adapt their behavior, reactions and linguistic performance to different situations
• Use in a flexible way the language and formulas of the exchanges and texts that are handled, as well as the usual forms of treatment and expressions of courtesy, within a wide standard register of formality and informality, with degrees of distance or closeness 
• Use expressions that qualify disagreement or negative assessments if the situation requires it
• Understand behaviors and values different from one's own that underlie common sociocultural traits and recognize aspects and expressions that are offensive or taboo in the other culture

Linguistic Competence 

• Broaden and diversify the knowledge of sociocultural aspects related to situations, even those that are less usual and those of one's own professional field; to successfully adapt their behavior, reactions and linguistic performance to different situations
• Use in a flexible way the language and formulas of the exchanges and texts that are handled, as well as the usual forms of treatment and expressions of courtesy, within a wide standard register of formality and informality, with degrees of distance or closeness 
• Use expressions that qualify disagreement or negative assessments if the situation requires it
• Understand behaviors and values different from one's own that underlie common sociocultural traits and recognize aspects and expressions that are offensive or taboo in the other culture

In order to consolidate all these skills you will study more than 40 sessions designed by expert teachers and based 100% on the CEFR"

Did you know...?

Communicative competence is not merely limited to the knowledge and ability to use the linguistic code, but has other broader dimensions, which place it in direct relation with other competences such as information processing and digital competence, learning to learn, social and civic competence, or cultural and artistic competence.

This implies a cultural immersion that is only possible to recreate in the online format through simulated scenarios, storytelling, videos and real situations. 

Enroll and observe how TECH helps you to improve your level of German in a quick and fluid way.