Goethe-Institut Santiago de Chile

Goethe-Institut Santiago de Chile offers classroom German at Holanda 100 in Providencia. Its programme focuses on practical situations and direct interaction with other members of the group. The German Academic Exchange Service in Chile also identifies the institute as a place to attend German lessons and take language examinations in Santiago. For a learner intending to travel to Germany, it offers a local starting point for building the language before departure.

Understanding the quarterly timetable

The published quarterly classroom format provides an example of how lessons are distributed. Forty-eight teaching units of forty-five minutes are spread across twelve weeks, with four units on the teaching day. This gives a learner time between meetings to practise independently. Other formats follow different schedules, so comparing the number of units and days together is more informative than comparing calendar length alone.

A student beginning German from scratch starts at the first A1 sublevel. Learners who have studied German before are asked to take a placement test so that the institute can recommend a suitable group and learning goal. When planning to sit an official German exam, compare the examination calendar with the course sequence. A single quarterly course is described in terms of progress through a sublevel.