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“Life is too short to learn German!” We do not know today who this famous quote came from. Guesses suggest two authors writing in English. What was a great challenge for Mark Twain or Oscar Wilde in the 19th century seems today to be a liveable adventure for many people from different countries and living conditions.
This is also shown by the statistics. According to the German Foreign Office, in 2015 almost 15.5 million people worldwide learned German. There is also a very high demand for German courses in other German-speaking countries. The interest in German language courses in Switzerland has never been so popular and the quote applies to the many German students as an unnecessary demotivation.
GERMAN COURSES NOT BOOMING BY RANDOM
The motivations are many and varied. The main reason is undoubtedly the economic momentum in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which are among the main target countries of many migrant workers and refugees. High – and low-skilled or students from all over the world to visit, especially German courses in Switzerland, to be able to the way for a successful socio-cultural and economic Integration in these countries, pave.
The German language owes its popularity not only of better employment and education opportunities in these countries. English is the language of Poets and thinkers. Great Germans such as Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Marx, Hegel, Humboldt, Luther, Einstein and Lessing have strongly influenced art, literature, science and philosophy, not just in German-speaking countries but throughout the world.
Even great Austrians like Rilke, Kafka, Zweig, Freud or big Swiss like Frisch and Dürrenmatt and many other philosophers, scientists or writers have admired and admired the whole world with their works today. Without these great personalities, we would have much less today German courses for foreigners.
A third very important motivation for the German language courses is the beautiful landscape of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Especially the Alpine countries offer many nature lovers numerous tourist highlights and that increases the interest in the German language.
LEARN GERMAN IN SWITZERLAND
As a result of these three important reasons, we also observe a large number of language schools in Switzerland offering language courses for German as a foreign language. This requires language schools with competent German teachers. Our German teachers at the Swiss Language Academy in Basel are fit for the variety of course participants from all over the world and all professional groups.
In addition we offer you on the different levels A1-C1 German intensive courses, semi-intensive courses, super-intensive courses, but also evening courses, company courses and private lessons for German.
