The THI Language Center offers language and intercultural electives for enrolled students of THI. Depending on your degree program, you can take these subjects as electives with ECTS credit or as free electives with a university certificate. To find out which subjects you can choose for your degree program, please contact the responsible program director directly.

In principle, you can take all subjects of the Language Center, even if a module is not offered as an elective subject for your degree program. If you are interested, you can enroll in a subject after consulting the Language Center, in case that there are still places available.

The course offerings for German as a foreign language include:

1. Course-related compulsory and elective subjects with ECTS credits

•  General compulsory/elective subjects
• Electives for language and social competence

2. Free electives that can be taken by all THI students (university certificate)

Please refer to the pdf for the course outline.

For information on course objectives and content, please refer to the Module Handbook of the Language Center.

The THI Language Centre is more than happy to support you in preparing for the Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Française (DELF).

• DELF preparatory Course

Internationally recognised language certificates such as the DELF examination can only be gained by passing a test taken at a licensed test centre.

The THI Language Centre offers a number of courses for THI students as certificate courses. When students pass the examination at the end of the THI course, they are issued with a THI higher education certificate.
THI students will find details of the THI certificate courses in the Language Centre Module Guide on Moodle.

• Institut Français: Language courses online or in person. Self-study via an app/learning platform, including grammar and spelling courses for advanced learners. Language certificates.
• Pas à pas: Pas à pas is a free French learning app for absolute beginners that offers basic oral communication in various everyday situations.
• Französischlernen mit Le Monde: Free and interactive website for learning French through videos, programmes and news. More than 2,000 online exercises to improve your oral comprehension in French, from beginner to advanced level.
• Frantastique Based on immersive learning, i.e. immersion in the foreign language, learners are encouraged to engage with French-language bandes dessinées (comics) and short films and, in an initial phase consisting of seven short lessons, take a placement test to determine their own language level.

• Le Monde: National daily newspaper.
• France Ouest: Regional daily newspaper.
• L'Express: Weekly magazine.

Book tip: For visual learners, reading is one of the best ways to learn!
For beginners learning French, there are bilingual editions in German and French or with German word explanations.

The book "Découvrir la France / Frankreich entdecken" by Irène Kuhn, for example, is written in both languages and provides a deeper insight into French culture. Dtv also publishes children's books, crime novels and novels in bilingual editions.

• Orthofolie: A practical app for all advanced learners of French who want to improve their spelling in particular. The tasks consist of mastering dictations without making mistakes in punctuation, spelling or verb tenses.

• TV5 Monde: Television channel TV5.
• Arte: Television channel Arte, a Franco-German broadcaster.
• 7 Jours sur la planète: News overview from TV5 Monde, also available as an app.
• Radio France: Includes several radio stations for news, sport, culture and music.

YouTube has become a treasure trove of online tutorials. This is also true for language learning. There are many tutorials and videos by French teachers who share their language skills for free.

• YouTube: Learn French for beginners, 330 French words and phrases, German-French vocabulary.

• Améliorez votre français: Based on Jacques Beauchemin's book (209 leçons pour bien écrire) from 2006, this app also includes many theory exercises that can help you improve your French.
• Bonjour de France: The websites contain theoretical grammar rules. With the help of French worksheets, learners can continue to improve and catch up on French exercises online.
• La conjugaison: The free app for conjugating French verbs from the French news magazine L’Obs, which lists more than 9,000 French verbs free of charge.
• Grammaire française: Spelling, syntax, past tense, verb agreement, punctuation, conjugation...
• Conjugio helps you practice verb conjugations using real sentences instead of relying only on grammar tables. It makes it easier to understand which tense naturally fits in spoken language.

Neben den sprachenübergreifenden Online-Wörterbüchern wie Pons, Leo oder Linguee finden Sie hier weitere nützliche Links.

• Larousse: The Larousse mobile French dictionary.
• Dictionnaire de rimes: Rhyming dictionary. The tool is designed like a search engine and is easy to use. It allows you to find words with a similar sound, without necessarily being perfect rhymes.
• Dictionnaire des synonymes et antonymes français: The thesaurus allows you to search for synonyms and antonyms for a word in French with just a few clicks. The free search engine is published by the University of Caen.
• Synonymo: More than 40,000 synonyms in the French language.