Blended Learning

You will learn just as much in a blended learning course as in one of our fully face-to-face courses. The course is divided into two parts:

For 10-week standard courses: 3 hours of learning per week

1. 90 minutes of live group classes
2. 90 minutes of independent online learning

For 5-week intensive courses: 6 hours of learning per week

1. 180 minutes of live group classes (90 minutes each, twice weekly)
2. 180 minutes of independent online learning

50% of a blended learning course consists of independent online learning.

You will have access to our online platform, where you will find the online portion of the course. This section includes engaging learning activities, online flash cards to study vocabulary, and summary explanations of all important grammatical structures and phrases you will encounter. 

Your instructor will assign weekly exercises intended to be completed at your own pace within a given week. These exercises will prepare you for the online live sessions in which you will meet with your classmates. 

You will complete most online activities individually, but they will also include interactive tasks where you will engage with the entire learning group. These group activities may include posting about your hobbies, interests or upcoming events while also interacting with classmates by leaving comments on their posts. 

All live classes will be held online in Zoom, which you can download and use for free.

• Mac, iPad, tablet, PC or laptop.
• Headset with microphone
• Stable internet connection with sufficient bandwidth, especially for the virtual live sessions

Standard blended courses are 10 weeks. Intensive blended courses are 5 weeks.

Your course will have 6-13 students.

All required course materials for your blended learning course will be made available online free of charge for the duration of the course.

Yes! We will periodically be holding free sample classes. Registration and a language proficiency assessment are required to participate - please contact germancourses-toronto@goethe.de to get started.