Foreign Language/Intercultural Courses

Please note:

• Registration for all courses will be activated in early/mid-September 2024 via ILIAS. We will remind you of the start of the registration period in a separate e-mail.
• Unfortunately, the last semesters showed us that there are participants who register for, but never attend the actual language courses and thus block places. From the winter semester 2023/24 onwards, we will thus have to exclude participants who are absent without advance notification and give their places to candidates from the waiting list. If you find that you cannot attend the courses after all, please make sure to cancel your registration by contacting us out of consideration for your fellow students!

We will offer the following courses in the upcoming semester:

English – B1.1, B2.1, English for Professional Purposes

English B1.1 (4 weekly hours) in blended format: 2 weekly hours classroom teaching, 2 weekly hours online: This course is intended for those among you 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 a slightly advanced level and gives you the opportunity to catch up quickly.

English B2.1 (4 weekly hours) in blended format: 2 weekly hours classroom teaching, 2 weekly hours online: This is a follow-up course for the English B1.2 course in the summer semester 2024. It is intended for all those of you who already have a fairly good English, but who have reached their limit when it comes to technical texts. The course starts at an advanced level and gives you the opportunity to brush up on your English for your studies.

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.

Spanish – A1, B1.1

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 B1.1 (4 weekly hours) in blended format: 2 weekly hours classroom teaching, 2 weekly hours online: This is a follow-up course for the Spanish A2 course in the summer semester 2024. It is aimed at all those who already have a basic knowledge of Spanish or have taken Spanish at school for 2–3 years.

Japanese – A1.1, A1.2, A1 consolidation

Japanese A1.1: (3 weekly hours) in blended format with additional compact classes. A course for beginners without prior knowledge

Japanese A1.2: (3 weekly hours) in blended format with additional compact classes. This is a follow-up course for the Japanese A1.1 course in the summer semester 2024. It is aimed at all those who already have some knowledge of Japanese.

Japanese A1 consolidation: (2 weekly hours) in the proven blended format. A course for all those who have taken the Japanese A1.3 course with us in the last semesters or have acquired prior knowledge in other ways. This course enhances and consolidates the beginners’ level.

German Coaching for International Students

German coaching for international students (2 weekly hours). Are you already studying for a degree and feel that you still need some support with your German – especially for assignments, presentations and term papers? Meet with a German teacher once a week to get advice on how to tackle your own individual challenges!

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].

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.  

• Please follow this link to Online Language Support: https://academy.europa.eu/local/euacademy/pages/course/community-overview.php?title=learn-a-new-language

• Brief instructions for beneficiaries provided by the DAAD: https://eu.daad.de/eudownloadcenter/download/966/

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].

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

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.

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 

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].

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

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.

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

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.

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

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:

• Guest lecturers
• Continuing education for employees
• Platform to search for staff mobilities

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

iDA self-study courses for university employees in registrar’s offices, personnel departments, research departments, examination offices, student counselling services and office managers in faculties: https://www.daad-akademie.de/de/services-und-downloads/publikationen-und-selbstlernmaterialien/

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.

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

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:

• Continuing education for employees
• Platform to search for staff mobilities

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

iDA self-study courses for university employees in registrar’s offices, personnel departments, research departments, examination offices, student counselling services and office managers in faculties: https://www.daad-akademie.de/de/services-und-downloads/publikationen-und-selbstlernmaterialien/

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.