Hirschfelder Spracheninstitut

English for beginners and worldwide travellers

Here we worry about the unnecessary difficult grammatical particulars. We particularly concentrate on the very difficult: You master within the time period you have set a vocabulary of 1000 words to speak including sayings and important questions as well as behaviour in an emergency and on the telephone for booking and reservations, for example making changes. Otherwise our teachers can organise the course according to your wishes!

English for new beginners

This course takes place on a regular basis. You can learn the English language from the beginning as a newbie or as a previous school student. We encourage you to learn with courage and guide you away from the mostly spoken German-English mix and concentrate on the correct pronunciation and the natural ENGLISH word order.

English for beginners

This course is specially designed for new beginners in school English (about 10 years) and serves with the best listening and reading comprehensions. As the lessons in school increasingly lack native speakers from CDs, this course opens a great possibility for English beginners to learn how to express themselves correctly, and to imagine where the stress lies etc.

Those interested are very welcome!

Dates and facts:

The teaching and learning concept

Our idea is to create an alternative teaching and learning concept which stems from the not always pleasant school experience of the school students. It has come to my attention in my circle of friends that during the lessons at school there is a very large and often too much focus on grammar, but the practical part, in other words the spoken language, is often kept to a minimum. The trend to leave school students alone at home reading English or French books without pronunciation training or to even get children to write out their work is on the increase. We do not support that!! In actual fact German school students learn a language up to the age of 19 are NOT in the position to speak this language. This is a unique phenomenon among all European school students! Help to change this issue is needed right away. We work with each student’s individual problems and or wishes in all beginners’ courses and with all tuition lessons as well as in one-to-one sessions. All of our instructors are native speakers and take care of the individual needs of their students (for work purposes, school, holidays etc). The learning atmosphere is relaxing and welcoming. We all have time for a joke or for a personal anecdote during the lessons.

Those who are interested are very welcome to observe our work!

The Hirschfelder learning method

(school year 13 and for work purposes)

According to our knowledge is the only free style method to learn a language. Free style means until next time: You learn according to your wishes without a book or with your favourite book free from pressure and alone with your language instructors at your own work pace, assessed through YOUR way of learning, YOUR abilities and priorities:

1. Sound and melody (alphabet, pronunciation rules and particularities)
2. Sentence structure (differences from the German sentence structure)
3. Getting started on the grammar (tenses etc).
4. Correcting typical mistakes
5. Conversation course (extending your vocabulary)

A free combination of the modules 1 to 5 is possible if you wish to do so. Please look at out 5 or 10 day intensive courses.

Please select from our courses:

• English for beginners
• English guided study
• English tuition
• English Conversation 1
• English Conversation 2
• English for refreshers
• English Business Conversation
• English vocabulary training
• Playground – English for children