Foreign Language/Intercultural Courses

Would you like to learn a new language or enhance your language skills?
Whether online or on campus, for your (study-related) stay abroad, your studies, for recreational or professional purposes – we have a suitable offer for everyone:

 

Language Center in ILIAS

You can find the Language Center’s offers for the summer semester 2024 in ILIAS at the following link: https://t1p.de/oyumm

Students & degree-seeking students

Study-related language courses

 

Please note: Unfortunately, the last semesters showed us that there are participants who register for, but never attend the actual language courses and thus block places. We will thus have to exclude participants who are absent without advance notification and give their places to candidates from the waiting list.

Registration, dates and rooms for the language courses in the summer semester 2024 in ILIAS.

For the languages English and Spanish, we would like to gradually build up a comprehensive range of courses on levels B1–C1 for English and A1–B2 for Spanish in the next semesters. Therefore, we will offer the following courses in the upcoming summer semester:

 

English B1.1

English B1.2 (4 weekly hours) in blended format: 2 weekly hours classroom teaching, 2 weekly hours online: This is a follow-up course for last semester’s B1.1 course and is intended for all those who, now that they study at university, feel that their English is not sufficient to read English texts, to hold presentations in English or to speak English in general. This may be the case if your English lessons at school were not sufficient, or if they were too long ago, or you simply did not find any access to the language. The course starts at an advanced level and gives you the opportunity to catch up quickly.

 

English for Professional Purposes

English for Professional Purposes 2 weekly hours classroom teaching: This course is for all those who still remember their English school lessons quite well, do not have any major problems in understanding English texts, but secretly hope that no one will ever ask them to make appointments over the phone in English, to write English e-mails or to hold presentations in English at work. The course provides an opportunity to prepare for the above situations and to acquire the necessary skills.

 

Online conversation course in cooperation with the University of Michigan: A course for all those who would like to improve their oral English skills and make new contacts with students in a German programme at the University of Michigan. The overall topic of this course will be multiculturalism.


Spanish A1

Spanish A1 (4 weekly hours) in blended format: 2 weekly hours classroom teaching, 2 weekly hours online: A course for beginners without prior knowledge

 

Spanish A1.2

Spanish A1.2 (2 weekly hours) online: This course is for those who have already taken an A1.1 course with us in the last semesters or who have already acquired prior knowledge in other ways.

 

Japanese

The Japanese courses amount to 2 or 3 weekly hours, respectively, and take place in a blended format.

Japanese A1.1: A course for beginners without prior knowledge. PLEASE NOTE: This course has 3 weekly hours and will also include classes on two Saturdays!

Japanese A1.2: A course for all those who have already taken Japanese A1.1 with us last semester or have acquired some prior knowledge in other ways.

Japanese A1.3: A course for all those who have already taken Japanese A1.2 with us last semester or have acquired some prior knowledge in other ways.

 

New courses offered this semester

Turkish

Turkish for Professional Purposes: A course for all those who have already acquired basic Turkish skills (A1–A2) and have no major problems understanding Turkish texts, but so far have not used the language in their job or studies at all or only very rarely.

 

German as a Foreign Language

German for International Students: A course for international students who are already studying at HSBI and have noticed during lectures and exercises that they need some support with their German.

 

English

Online conversation course in cooperation with the University of Michigan: A course for all those who would like to improve their oral English skills and make new contacts with students in a German programme at the University of Michigan. The overall topic of this course will be multiculturalism.

Taking language courses at Bielefeld University

Students and doctoral students of HSBI may participate in language courses offered by the Language Centre at Bielefeld University as guest students. Please see the notes on how to register as a student of HSBI.

Please note: Students who are doing their doctorates in cooperation with Bielefeld University, please use your direct access to the Language Centre.


Information on online language courses and language courses at Bielefeld University can be found here: https://www.hsbi.de/studium/sprachkurse [German].

Online Language Support (OLS) – ERASMUS+

If you receive funding through ERASMUS+, you will automatically be given access to a free online OLS language course in your destination country’s local and teaching/working language.

The language test is a mandatory part of the Erasmus+ programme. Please take the test for your respective teaching language before the start of your semester abroad and send a screenshot of the result to: international.office@hsbi.de.  

 

ONline Language Support Symbolbild

 

Online courses via speexx

You can use the professional online language courses developed by speexx to train and improve your skills in English, Spanish, French, Italian or German. The courses are available for self-study in ILIAS. In the ILIAS repository, you will also find other courses that you can take for free. The language courses can be found under Repository > self-study courses > Language Trainings or directly via this ILIAS link.

For more information, please visit: https://www.hsbi.de/studium/sprachkurse [German].

“Intercultural Competence” self-study course

With our self-study course “Intercultural Competence” provided in ILIAS, you can prepare for living and learning abroad.

 

Exchange students

Please have a look at our offers for German courses.

Freshers’ Weeks

HSBI offers an orientation phase of approximately three weeks before the official start of the semester. These weeks include a free intensive German course and a cultural leisure programme.

Study-related German courses

Bielefeld School of Business offers study-related German courses at different levels. If the course is not fully booked by the faculty’s own students, it will be opened for students from other faculties.

Contact person
Nermin Karaoglu
Bielefeld School of Business
Room B 329
+49.521.106-4840
nermin.karaoglu@hsbi.de 

Online courses via speexx

You can use the professional online language courses developed by speexx to train and improve your skills in English, Spanish, French, Italian or German. The courses are available for self-study in ILIAS. In the ILIAS repository you will also find other courses that you can take for free. The language courses can be found under Repository > self-study courses > Language Trainings or directly via this ILIAS link.

For more information, please visit: https://www.hsbi.de/studium/sprachkurse [German].

“Intercultural Competence” self-study course

With our self-study course “Intercultural Competence” provided in ILIAS, you can prepare for living and learning abroad.

 

Refugees

Preparatory German courses

As part of the DAAD project “NRWege ins Studium,” which is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW) of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, HSBI offers preparatory German courses at levels B1, B2 and C1.

The application period for places in the German courses is in January and September each year.

For more information, please click here.

 

Prospective international students

Study-related German courses

Bielefeld School of Business offers study-related German courses at different levels. If the course is not fully booked by the faculty’s own students, it will be opened for students from other faculties.

Contact person
Nermin Karaoglu
Bielefeld School of Business
Room B 329
+49.521.106-4840
nermin.karaoglu@hsbi.de

Freshers’ Weeks

HSBI offers an orientation phase of approximately three weeks before the official start of the semester. These weeks include a free intensive German course and a cultural leisure programme.

 

Lecturers & researchers 

English translation service

Translation into English and proofreading of non-scientific texts, e.g. forms, document templates, standard texts.
More information at: Translation Service

Erasmus+ Staff Mobility

The Erasmus+ programme not only supports stays abroad for students, but also for guest lecturers and university employees’ further education and training measures in other European countries.

More information at:

iDA language courses

Language courses from the Internationale DAAD-Akademie (iDA): https://www.daad-akademie.de/seminare-und-workshops/themenreihen/sprachkurse/de/

Online courses via speexx

You can use the professional online language courses developed by speexx to train and improve your skills in English, Spanish, French, Italian or German. The courses are available for self-study in ILIAS. In the ILIAS repository you will also find other courses that you can take for free. The language courses can be found under Repository > Self-learning courses > Language Trainings or directly via this ILIAS link.

 

Employees

English translation service

Translation into English and proofreading of non-scientific texts, e.g. forms, document templates, standard texts.
More information at: Translation Service

Erasmus+ Staff Mobility

The Erasmus+ programme not only supports stays abroad for students, but also for university employees’ further education and training measures in other European countries.

More information at:

iDA language courses

Language courses from the Internationale DAAD-Akademie (iDA): https://www.daad-akademie.de/seminare-und-workshops/themenreihen/sprachkurse/de/

Online courses via speexx

You can use the professional online language courses developed by speexx to train and improve your skills in English, Spanish, French, Italian or German. The courses are available for self-study in ILIAS. In the ILIAS repository, you will also find other courses that you can take for free. The language courses can be found under Repository > Self-learning courses > Language Trainings or directly via this ILIAS link.


 

Contact
Sprachenzentrum/ Language Center