German
How to learn German at the Language Centre including pathways, timetables and fees.
Timetable Hilary Term 2020
| Information for non-members of the University is here. | Course Pathway | Stage | Part | Duration | Day of week and time | Date of first class | Date of final class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrol | General Intensive | 1 | 2 | One week | Monday to Friday 10am - 13:00 every day | 16 March 2020 | 20 March 2020 |
A Stage is made up of three Parts, usually Part 1 is Michaelmas term, Part 2 is Hilary term and Part 3 is Trinity term. However, in some instances we will run another Part 1 in Hilary term due to popularity, please check the timetable carefully. Please note, complete beginners (Stage 1) cannot join Parts 2 or 3 if they have not completed Part 1.
Fees, funding and enrolment
Please click on the link below for information on our fees.
Enrolment is first-come, first-served. If the course on which you would like to enrol is fully booked, we operate a first-come, first-served waiting list system. Simply click on the Join the Waiting List button alongside the course of your choice and we will email you if a space becomes available.
If you need to learn a language to support your studies, you can ask your college, department or faculty to sponsor you via our Priority Funding scheme. You'll need to seek permission from your tutor/supervisor, obtain the email address of the financial signatory in your college/department/faculty, and click on the link to the Priority Funding Application Form below. Priority Funding is not available for Fast Track courses. See our course handbook for more information. Priority funding for Hilary term is now closed.
Colleges will consider refunding students up to half the Fast Track course fees on completion of the course at the end of Trinity term. Please contact your college to find out more about their arrangements before you start your course. A form to record the agreement between a student and their college of their eligibility for the reimbursement scheme is available for students to download below: it should not be returned to the Language Centre.
For Learners with an Oxford University SSO (Single Sign-On) simply click on the enrol button next to the class that you wish to join.
For Learners without an Oxford University SSO, or who are not members of the University, please email admin@lang.ox.ac.uk with the following details:
- Full name
- Email address and phone number
- The name of the course you wish to study (including Stage and Part)
- The start date and time of the course
- Your connection to Oxford University, if any (to determine course fee)
We will then provisionally enrol you onto the course and send you a link to the Oxford University Online Store for payment. Once payment is received we will confirm your place on the course.
GENERAL PATHWAY
- Wide variety of Stages available, from beginners up
- Term by term commitment
- Taught in weeks 2-7 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity)
- Classes per week: 1
- Length of class: 2 hours
- Total hours of tuition per term: 12
- Expected hours of self-guided study learning outside the classroom (supported by Canvas, the University’s new Virtual Learning Environment): 12
- Most popular courses are also available in a Week 9 Intensive format
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully-funded Priority places available for students sponsored by their college/department (see Priority Funding box on this page for further information)
- Certificates of course completion and attendance are available, please see the course handbook for conditions
ACADEMIC PATHWAY
- Focus primarily on reading and on learners' academic needs for the language
- Term by term commitment
- Taught in weeks 2-7 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity)
- Classes per week: 1
- Length of class: 2 hours
- Total hours of tuition per term: 12
- Expected hours of self-guided study learning outside the classroom (supported by Canvas, the University’s new Virtual Learning Environment): 12
- Most popular courses are also available in a Week 9 Intensive format
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully-funded Priority places available for students sponsored by their college/department (see Priority Funding box on this page for further information)
- Certificates of course completion and attendance are available, please see the course handbook for conditions
FAST TRACK PATHWAY
- Ideal for learners motivated to learn faster
- Taught throughout the academic year in weeks: 2 – 8 in Michaelmas, 1 – 8 In Hilary and Trinity, with entry points at the start of Michaelmas and Hilary
- Classes per week: 2
- Length of class: 2 hours + 1 hour – sessions are usually scheduled in the evenings
- Total hours of tuition per term: 21 in Michaelmas, 24 each in Hilary and Trinity
- Expected hours of self-guided study learning outside the classroom (supported by Canvas, the University’s new Virtual Learning Environment): 21 in Michaelmas, 24 each in Hilary and Trinity
- Total hours of tuition per year: 69 (or 48 for the two term version)
- Enrolment and fee is for the academic year
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- College partial reimbursement scheme available (see Fast Track partial reimbursement scheme on this page for further information, or read our Fast Track handbook)
- Certificates of course completion and attendance are available, please see the course handbook for conditions
WEEK 9 INTENSIVE PATHWAY
Short on time...?
We will run our most popular courses in an Intensive format in Week 9. Enrolment for these courses will open in Week 6. Join our mailing list to receive an enrolment reminder.
Further resources
Library shelfmark: GE
At Oxford
- German at Oxford
- DAAD German Academic Exchange Service
- OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford. Please note: access is limited to those in the Oxford domain.
- The last five years of the listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are available on WebLearn They also are in print in the library with audio materials available for the listening comprehension examination.
- Oxford University Language Society
General
- BBC languages page where you can also find transcripts of programmes such as Deutsche Plus!
- GCSE Bitesize revision
- Deutsch lernen free online lessons for beginner and advanced levels
- DWDS German Corpora
- Dialects
- EM Neu Brückenkurs, Hauptkurs and Abschlusskurs. The textbooks are in the library.
- Germanabout.com - resources
- Goethe Institut German courses (in England and Germany) and learning material. It includes a section on activities in the Goethe Institut London
- IIK : Institut für Internationale Kommunikation in Zusammenarbeit mit der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- K. F. Hilliard's Page Dr. Hilliard is a University Lecturer in German
- Learn German easy level and Leicht Deutsch for intermediate students
- Warwick University Web Resources
Dictionaries
- Online dictionaries for all languages
- Pons dictionary
- Dictionary of formal and non-formal expressions in context
- Worschatz University Leipzig corpora and dictionary
Pronunciation
Reading
- Germanabout - Reading links
Vocabulary
- Ausgewanderte Wörter - Memo-spiel Vocabulary testing game
- German for music lovers
- Goethe-Tests
Web searching
Blogs and MOOCs
- Frankfurter Allgemeine blogs
- Spiegel blogs
- Zeit blogs
- iversity the biggest German language MOOC
- Mooin from the University of Lübeck
- virtuelle Hochschule Bayern
- imoox from the Universities of Graz
Business
- AUMA trade fairs
- Learn German online business
Chemistry
- Internet Laborverzeichnis
- Max Planck Institut für Biochemie
- Organische Chemie
- Chemie: Informationen aus der Wissenschaft
- Periodensystem der Elemente
- Schulchemie
Culture
- Deutsches Historiches Museum
- Galerien Online Art
- German Christmas in German
- Tatsachen über Deutschland Facts about Germany. Contains a lot of up to date information for many topics.
- Volksliederarchiv German language folk song archive
- World of Comics a good site, in English, giving a lot of information about comics, including graphic novels in German
Engineering
- Computerwoche
- Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern. See especially the link to 'Institutes and Transfer Points'
- Elektroniknet
- Forum Maschinenbau information provider for mechanical engineering
- Institut Arbeit und Technik
- Institute of Fluid Mechanics at Göttingen
- Internet für Ingenieure
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule
- Spektrum der Wissenschaft Science magazine
Literature
- Die Deutsche Gedichtebibliothek
- Deutsche Literatur from wikipedia
Media
If you can't find the media you want, try our multilingual page
The library's Netvibes page offers you the latest news
- Print & Online
- APA - Austria Press Agentur
- Frankfurter Allgemeine
- Online Focus das digitale und interaktive Nachrichtenmagazin auf dem Internet.
- Der Standard (Wien)
- Der Stern
- Die Welt die große deutsche Tageszeitung im World Wide Web
- Die Zeit
- Radio
- TV
- RTL 2
- SAT 1
- WDR
- ZDF
- Das Internet-Magazin von TV Movie
- German tv programme listings
- Tagesschau The main German evening news programme
Politics
- BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
- Social Democratic Party
Science
Theology
Universities
- Information about studying in Germany multilingual website
- Universität Augsburg
- Universität Bayreuth
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Universität Bremen
- Universität Frankfurt
- Universität Göttingen
- Universität Halle
- Universität Hamburg
- Universität Heidelberg
- Universität Kaiserslautern
- Universität Karlsruhe
- Universität Konstanz
- Universität Leipzig
- Universität Marburg
- Universität München
- Universität Oldenburg
- Universität Paderborn
- Universität Passau
- Universität Potsdam
- Universität Saarbrücken
- Universität Tübingen
Useful links
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