I am considering their intensive German course. Are any of you familiar with the school? The price is almost too good to be true, which is what concerns me. Thank-you! Have a nice day.

I don't know about advanced but i did a beginner course and did not learn much, there were too many in the class and the teacher translated everything into 10 langauges. The price is good but the value for money was not.

From what I heard: lots of grammar and little speaking.

I've got a friend who goes there who finds the intermediate level work difficult, but their German has improved quite quickly as a result of their lessons. The prices are very good for Switzerland.

They are very cheap, it's more of a cooperative arrangement than a commercial school AFAIK.

In that case, it would really depend on the teacher. I did a few semesters of Russian there and I enjoyed it, but the class sizes were small and because I was doing the course in German, I was kind of learning two languages at once.

The way it works though is you can turn up for the first 2 classes and then decide whether to continue or not. Just do that and then you can check out the teacher and the other students. As usual for language classes, expect a fair amount of dropouts after the first 6 weeks or so.

Any updates on this? My wife is thinking to starting an intermediate German course there in January.

Does anyone have experience with the "Conversation Classes"?

I'm on the same situation...

I think I will try, any more opinions?

I took my german classes there and LOVED it! But I think mostly I had a great teacher. His name was Adrian Jecker. Lots of conversation, not too much homework, he also did alot of Basel information. We often did activities where we would bring in a Basel Newspaper or a 20 Minutes and learn some current-event type of words. We made a grocery list once in german and learned how to ask for cuts of meat. he was really great!

Like I wrote in another post...it all depends on the teacher.
My wife will most likely give it a try. Will post feedback in the new year.

How did she find it ? I would be glad to hear about

Well she did give it a try. She tried the two times a week course at level A2.


The feedback is mixed. The teacher was good. But since the class size is rather large (12) you don't get many chances to talk. It also all depends on how fast you want to learn German. If you need it fast, then this course is definitely not for you. If you are more interested in German as a "hobby" then this is a good low-price option.


Hope this helps.

Thank you for feedback.

More question here. Who was her german teacher ? Does she also mean that the only problem is count of participants ? If it had had less attendants, would it have been perfect or even so it would have been slow ?

Thank you

She had a Mr. Goldschmidt. He was a good teacher.


It would have definitely been better with fewer participants.


But like I said before 2 times a wekk is not for someone who wants to learn to speak German quickly.

I actually will do it seriously but 5 times a week would be a bit extreme for me as an employee. BTW, thank you for your help.