Language Learning

Online language support is designed to help Erasmus+ participants improve the language skills they need for their study and work stays abroad, so they can get the most out of this international experience.

Learn languages with Online Language Support.

A language tandem consists of two people with different native languages who help each other learn the other’s language. The goal is for both people to benefit from working together. The tandem partners decide for themselves what and how they want to learn. The tandem is not paid.

Through the tandem, you have the opportunity to communicate in the foreign language and learn a lot about the culture associated with that language.

How the meetings are structured is up to the tandem partners. You can use the meetings, for example,

• discuss selected topics (newspaper articles, etc.) to improve your oral expression
• practice grammar and vocabulary
• prepare for exams

 or even to

• watch a movie together in the foreign language, with or without subtitles
• help each other with homework
• cook traditional dishes from that country together
• listening to audiobooks or reading books and magazines together

If you need a certificate of participation for the tandem program to obtain the ZIKK certificate, we’ll be happy to issue one. You can find more information about ZIKK and the writing partnerships here: www.uni-hildesheim.de/io/interkulturelle-workshops/

Language tandems at the University of Hildesheim are organized by the university’s Incoming Office. You can register for a tandem partnership here.

The goals of international writing partnerships are, in principle, the same as those of language tandems: they focus on improving language proficiency and fostering intercultural exchange.

The difference is that the ISPs consist of triads in which students in teacher education programs facilitate the language and writing learning processes. The target group therefore includes full-time and program students who wish to improve their writing and cultural competence in a foreign language outside of classroom settings, as well as students in the German and English teacher education programs.

You can find more information about the International Writing Partnerships, which were awarded the European Language Label in 2011, here.

Register via LSF.