SIMON & SIMON boast a highly qualified team of native Germen speaking teachers who, with an average of 15 years of experience, have already helped professionals and private individuals from all across the UK achieve their German Language goals.
All of our German Courses in Leicester are tailor-made to reflect each student’s level of experience, allowing goals to be quickly met. We consistently receive positive feedback regarding our language trainers’ performance, and what’s more, all of our students are equipped with a profile on their trainer, detailing their previous experience and background, prior to starting their course.
Modern teaching approaches have revolutionised the way in which language training is approached. The experience is now considered far more fun and rewarding, a far cry from what you may remember of studying a language at school. When you start a German Course in Leicester with SIMON & SIMON, progress can be made from your very first session, as almost your entire lesson will be taught in German. This is a modern teaching method known as The Communicative Approach, and means that your confidence and ability will soon grow, so that using your new found German skills in meaningful situations is no problem at all.
Our German Courses are typically offered on a 1:1 basis, however group sessions are also available. Group Sessions prove to be excellent value for money, however they will require the commitment of all the students involved and should not exceed a maximum of 6 candidates per course. A 1:1 German Course in Leicester will allow for much faster progress as the course can be fully tailored to the strengths and weaknesses of the client.
A multi-lingual Account Manager with extensive experience is responsible for each SIMON & SIMON German Language Course. Prior to starting your course you will be sent a profile on your trainer, along with a Course Plan and Course Materials. We will then also send you a progress report for every 40 hours of training you complete.
At SIMON & SIMON we have experience running German Language Courses in a host of locations. With a global network of language trainers, we can accommodate your German Language Course for just about any major city in the UK, Europe and beyond. We can arrange your German lessons for within your home, however the majority of our clients will choose to run their course within their own offices, so as to keep travel to a minimum. Residential full-time German Language Courses are also available, our offices will be happy to discuss available locations with you.
Our German courses in Leicester are offered all year around, from 8am to 6pm, Monday through Friday. Most of our students will attend just one 90-minute session a week, however many students will choose to do more if work commitments allow so. Weekend Courses can also be accommodated upon request. Intensive German Language Courses are also available and can be run on a client’s premises or in a residential centre either in the UK or overseas. Intensive courses are made up of 6 hours of language learning a day, Monday through Friday.
The content of your German Language Course will be tailored to your previous experience and future goals. Prior to the start of your course we will assess your German Language Level and speak with you in detail about the desired focus of your German Course in Leicester. Students may be complete novices who wish to improve on their basic German skills for everyday use, or they may be slightly more proficient and wish to develop their fluency for when it comes to business topics such as marketing or finance. No matter what your needs, you can be confident that our very experienced German Language Trainers will work with you on a German Language Course which has been tailored around your requirements.
SIMON & SIMON can also assist with your preparations for language examinations, whether of a business nature or otherwise. Our students’ boast a 95% pass rate for such examinations, which we believe to demonstrate the value of working with language trainers in Leicester who hold above average experience. SIMON & SIMON can take care of the registration for and administration of German Examinations as well as the issuing of results certificates.
German is a West Germanic language and is spoken natively by about 100 million people, making it the most widely spoken native language in the European Union. A considerable number of German words have derived from Latin and Greek, with a few words also descending from French and English language. German is a pluricentric language, meaning multiple countries have their own standardised variants of the language including, Austrian German and Swiss Standard German. German is spoken as a second language by approximately 80 million people and is the most commonly spoken language in some states of America after English. German language has the same alphabet as English language except for an additional letter which is “ß” this letter is a consonant which is used as a double-S (SS) sound and is called an “eszett” or “sharp S”. German language had the opportunity to be the native language of the United States, but English was chosen over German by only one vote. German language has some very similar words to English language, for example, their translation of jogging is joggen.
Leicester is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands area of England. It is also the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest. In 2006, the population of the Leicester unitary authority was estimated at 289,700, the largest in the East Midlands, whilst 441,213 people lived in the wider Leicester Urban Area. Eurostat’s Larger Urban Zone listed the population of the area at 772,400 people as of 2004. Leicester is the 10th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom using the 2001 census definitions and the urban area is the fifteenth largest conurbation in the UK, the second largest in the region behind the Nottingham Urban Area. Ancient Roman pavements and baths remain in Leicester from its early settlement as Ratae Corieltauvorum, a Roman military outpost in a region inhabited by the Celtic Corieltauvi tribe. Following the demise of Roman society the early medieval Ratae Corieltauvorum is shrouded in obscurity, but when the settlement was captured by the Danes it became one of five fortified towns important to the Danelaw. The name “Leicester” is thought to derive from the words castra of the “Ligore”, meaning a camp on the River Legro, an early name for the River Soar. Leicester appears in the Domesday Book as “Ledecestre”. Leicester continued to grow throughout the Early Modern period as a market town, although it was the Industrial Revolution that facilitated an unparalleled process of unplanned urbanisation in the area.
The table below is based on recognised language levels used by various academic institutions across the European Union. A highly motivated student attending weekly sessions with their German language trainer in Leeds can expect to move from one level to another after 50 hours providing they also commit to a similar number of hours of self-study.
Of course, some people find learning languages easier than others, and some students will have more opportunities to practice German in the course of their work and leisure, so these factors also need to be considered when trying to assess how long it will take to move from one level to another.
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