German language summer programs in Freiburg
Youth camps
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Learn German at the feet of the Schlossberg
The summer language camp of the Goethe-Institut in Freiburg is intended for young people aged 16 to 17. The accommodation is only about 10 minutes walking distance from the center of Freiburg’s beautiful Old Town. What our language summer camp participants from all over the world will notice immediately when they move into their accommodation for the next three weeks, is the enormous solar energy system installed on the facade and roof of the house. This is typical for Freiburg, which sees itself as an innovation and technology hub in the field of renewable energies.Our housing arrangements with 2- or 3-bed rooms is often the beginning of friendships that literally span the globe. With free WiFi, our course participants are easily connected to the internet, but naturally, their mobile phones are shut off during the lessons. That's 28 hours of German lessons per week, where we teach German reading, writing, speaking and understanding.
The new skills come in handy when we explore Freiburg on a city rally and get to know regional delicacies at the Münstermarkt. There are also two day trips scheduled, giving our participants the opportunity to try out their language skills and see more of the surrounding area.
Highlights
Freiburg highlights: mighty towers and long Bratwurst
Our young German course students are served three meals a day as well as drinks and refreshments, a vegetarian option is offered at each meal. The non-vegetarians will nevertheless soon have a new favorite meal: the Lange Rote (the long red). This is a very long, reddish grilled sausage in a bun that is offered only at the Münstermarket and is simply delicious. The market is right in front of the Münster, the Freiburg Cathedral, a gothic monument with a 117 meter high tower, which was once called "the most beautiful tower on earth". The Martinstor and the Schwabentor, gate houses that were once part of the city wall around medieval Freiburg, are still preserved.Since the Middle Ages, little creeks have been flowing through the streets everywhere in the old town, a welcome refreshment on hot summer days and an effective improvement of the inner city climate. All of this will be visited during a city rally. South of Freiburg begins the Black Forest, known for its dense forests, cuckoo clocks and old horror stories. An excursion ontoFreiburg's local mountain Schauinsland, you have a view, which on a good day can extend as far as the French Vosges mountains.
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“We manage to get along with each other on the courses in a peaceful, happy and tolerant manner – so you think to yourself: it's not that difficult and it must be possible for the rest of the world to manage!”
Hannah, 23, supervisor on the youth camps