Language Courses

Although BIGSSS is an English-language institution and many people in Bremen do speak English well enough for you to get along in everyday life, we strongly recommend learning German to all our foreign fellows. Speaking and understanding German will make your life for the next three years much easier and enable you to experience German culture much more intensively.

To support you in your language-learning efforts, BIGSSS cooperates with the Goethe Institut in Bremen and the language centre (Fremdsprachenzentrum) at the University of Bremen and offers subsidized language courses. For more detailed information on reimbursement, please contact the head of BIGSSS' administration, Ms Jasmin Hennemann.

Jacobs University also offers language courses for its students and staff but courses only take place during the semester. Please visit their language program website to find out more about their course schedules. Another option are language courses offered at the adult education centre in Bremen (Volkshochschule Bremen).

Those of you interested in intensive language courses might want to have a look at the International Summer Language Courses offered by the University of Bremen and the University's language center every summer. There are usually two course periods at different levels of German succeeding each other. Both courses cover four weeks.