Contact and information
Warsaw
Course offer
Group online courses are full-featured courses that take place 100% on our e-learning platform, without printed textbooks. Participants solve a variety of online exercises. Approximately 70% of these are exercises that require independent work. In addition, there are group exercises and exercises to be submitted to the teacher (including speaking tasks). The course participants work on these exercises individually or in groups. All skills are practised: reading, writing, listening, speaking (3-4 speaking tasks or pronunciation exercises per chapter). There are also 3-4 online meetings at each level.
Participants are constantly supervised by a teacher who monitors their work, gives feedback, makes sure that participants regularly solve the tasks, and conducts online meetings.
Example chapter A1, Example chapter A2
Date:
15.01. – 16.03.24
Duration:
9 weeks
Format:
Online course on the learning platform of the Goethe-Institut
Textbook:
No paper textbook required. All teaching materials on the Goethe-Institut learning platform.
Test chapters: A1 Start, A1, A2
Price:
1600,00 PLN (1550,00 PLN for students of the Goethe-Institut Warsaw)
Enrolment:
03.01. – 11.01.24
via the website
directly at the course office: Tel. +48 22 5059042
or by e-mail: kurs-warschau@goethe.de
05.02.-16.02.24
9.00-11.30 lub 17.45-20.15
Groups:
The course offerings will be published in the second half of December.
Duration:
2 weeks, 30 lessons á 45 min., 3 lessons/day
Format:
Online course (Zoom)/Presentation course
Price:
PLN 900,00 (PLN 850,00 for Goethe-Institut Warsaw course participants)
Enrolment:
22.01.-01.02.24
via the website
directly at the course office: Tel. +48 22 5059042
or by e-mail: kurs-warschau@goethe.de
23.02.-18.04.24
Duration:
30 lessons á 45 min., 2 x 2 lessons/week or 1 x 4 lessons/week (on Saturdays)
Course plan:
The course schedule will be published by mid-January
Format:
Online courses (Zoom) and in-class courses
Price:
PLN 900 (PLN 850 for Goethe-Institut Warsaw course participants)
Enrolment:
- For our students: 22.01.-22.02.24 (discount week: 22.01.-28.01.24)
- For new course participants: 12.02.-22.02.24
via the website
or by e-mail: kurs-warschau@goethe.de
23.02.-22.06.24
Duration:
30 lessons á 45 min., 1 x 2 lessons/week
Course plan:
The course schedule will be published by mid-January
Format:
Online courses (Zoom) and in-class courses
Price:
990 PLN (940 PLN for Goethe-Institut Warsaw course participants)
Enrolment:
22.01.-22.02.24 - current course participants
12.02.-22.02.24 - new course participants
directly at the course office: Tel. +48 22 505 90 42
or by e-mail: kurs-warschau@goethe.de
Placement tests
The placement test consists of two parts: a written one (online) and an oral one, which is conducted by telephone or online (in the case of children and young people).
Taking the test is free of charge.
Step 1
Please register for the placement test.
Placement test
Step 2
After registering for the placement test, you will receive an automatic notification with a link and access code to the written part of the placement test.
Please take the test. Your result will automatically be sent to the Goethe-Institut.
Step 3
When we have received the result of your placement test, we will send you an e-mail with a link to an online form where you can choose the date for the oral part of the placement test.
We ask you to select the oral part of the placement test at least 2 days before the selected test date.
If you wish, we will also be happy to issue you with an official language certificate of your test result (fee: PLN 150).
Course Office availability
Monday-Wednesday: 09.00–18.00 hrs.Thursday: 09.00–17.00 hrs. (tel. 9.00-18.00 hrs.)
Friday: 09.00–16.00 hrs.
New system of standard courses for adults
As of 1.10.2022, standard courses for adults follow a quarter system. The summer and winter semester are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter quarters respectively.For further information, such as course structure, dates and division of learning material, please see our presentation.
Children's and young people's courses, exam preparation and conversation courses continue to run on a semester basis.
General Information
If the course starts in less than a week, we ask you to pay the course fee without delay.
If payment is not made within this period, we will consider this as a cancellation of the course. In this case, the booking of the course place will be automatically deleted from our system without separate notification.
For procedural reasons, the Goethe-Institut may only issue an invoice to the payer of the service. Payment must be made by the payer (company). The invoice will be issued after payment and sent electronically.
Information on the textbook needed for a given course is available below:
Textbooks – courses for adults
Textbooks – Courses for children and teens Winter term 2023/24
Textbooks can be purchased with a 15% discount in the following bookstores:
- Bookland, Al. Jerozolimskie 55
- Bookland, ul. Kredytowa 2
- POLANGLO: ul. Chmielna 27/31
or the Klett-Verlag online shop with a discount of 10% when you use the code: Goethe Institut
In the German Online Group Courses (DOGR), all teaching materials are on our learning platform. You do not need a textbook for this course.
General Terms and Conditions of Participation
in language courses
organised by Goethe-Institut in Warsaw
valid from 05.09.2022
1. Scope of applicability of General Terms and Conditions of Participation
1.1. General Terms and Conditions of Participation apply to all semester, quarter, intensive and super-intensive courses as well as to German Online-Group Courses (Deutsch Online-Gruppenkurse) organised at Goethe-Institut in Warsaw.
1.2. General Terms and Conditions of Participation are available at the office of Goethe-Institut in Warsaw and at www.goethe.de/warszawa, about which course Participants are informed at enrolment. By paying for the course, Participants conclude a Course Agreement (hereinafter referred to as Agreement) with Goethe-Institut in Warsaw and confirm having been familiarized with the General Terms and Conditions of Participation.
2. Prerequisite
Persons willing to participate in language courses at Goethe-Institut in Warsaw must be at least 16 years of age. This condition does not apply to courses for children and teenagers, in which case consent of the statutory representative is required.
3. Prices
3.1. Information on prices valid at the moment of enrolment can be found in the current price list available at the office of Goethe-Institut in Warsaw and at www.goethe.de/warszawa.
3.2. No handling fee is charged for changing course group.
3.3. Payment made for the course entitles Participants to free use of the library of Goethe-Institut in Warsaw as well as of the e-learning platform for a period of maximum 4 months. Payment made for the course entitles Participants to free consultations with language teachers.
3.4. The course fee does not include the cost of the course book and exam.
4. Payment conditions
4.1. Payment for the course shall be made on a one-off basis at the time and in way specified in the course reservation document: by bank transfer to the specified bank account of Goethe-Institut in Warsaw or by card at the Course Bureau in Goethe-Institut in Warsaw.
Only timely payment can guarantee participation in the course.
4.2. Payment of the course fee is considered made at the moment it is booked to the bank account of Goethe-Institut in Warsaw.
5. Termination of agreement
5.1. Course Participants may withdraw from the Agreement one day before the course commencement date at the latest. In such a case the course fee is refunded in full.
5.2. From the first day of the course, Participants may terminate the Agreement in writing.
The Agreement is dissolved after the period of notice. The following periods of notice apply:
a) for semester courses: four course weeks from the day of the notice of termination,
b) for quarter and intensive courses: two course weeks from the day of the notice of termination,
c) for super-intensive and German Online-Group Courses (Deutsch Online-Gruppenkurse): one course week from the day of the notice of termination.
5.3. If the Agreement is terminated, Participants are refunded course fees for lessons planned for time after the expiry of the period of notice.
5.4. In the situation when a standard course group has fewer than 8 Participants, Goethe-Institut in Warsaw reserves the right to dissolve the course within 7 days from the planned course commencement date or to offer the course in a smaller group with reduced number of lessons at the same price. Should the course be dissolved, the course fee shall be refunded in full. In both cases Participants may also join another group provided there are places available.
Enrolment is possible up to three days after the start of the course and if there are free places in the course. The course fee will be reduced proportionally.
6. Group assignment / group size
6.1. Participants are assigned to a group at a given level on the basis of current language level certificate (results of oral and written placement test conducted at Goethe-Institut or Goethe-Institut Examination Centre, Goethe-Institut certificate).
6.2. The size of standard course group and of German Online-Group Courses (Deutsch Online-Gruppenkurse) is 12 persons maximum and in special cases 14 persons maximum. The minimum number of Participants per group is 8.
6.3. For children and teenagers’ courses, the maximum number of Participants is 10.
6.4. The Goethe-Institut Warsaw reserves the right to change the number of participants in a course and to offer the in-class course as an online course if this would be necessary due to official instructions or for the safety of course Participants and Goethe-Institut staff.
7. Participation in course
7.1. Participants of Goethe-Institut’s courses in Warsaw shall respect the social norm and behave in a cultured way.
7.2. Participants may only attend classes in the group to which they have been assigned.
7.3. The Goethe-Institut Warsaw is entitled to refuse admission to classes if course participants fail to comply with the rules of course participation laid down by the Goethe-Institut.
7.4. Course participants shall be liable for any damage caused to the Goethe-Institut or other persons due to non-compliance with the rules of course participation of the Goethe-Institut.
8. Inspections
The Language Department management conducts course inspections aimed at maintaining high quality of the lessons.
9. Course completion certificate
At the end of the course, each Participant shall receive a course completion certificate containing information of his/her results (based on tests and oral productions/written compositions) expressed as follows: has completed the course with “great success”, “good success” or “success”. If there is no grade on the course completion certificate, the next course level hasn’t been reached. Only the results: “great success”, “good success” and “success” entitle Participants to attend the next level course. The confirmation of participation does not require a signature. It is generated by the system and sent to the e-mail address of the course participant entered in the system when booking the course.
10. Liability of Goethe-Institut in Warsaw / Force majeure
Liability of Goethe-Institut in Warsaw and its employees shall be limited to cases of intentional actions and gross neglect. Goethe-Institut in Warsaw shall not be liable for non-delivery of services caused by force majeure, such as natural disaster, fire, flooding, war, directive of authority and any other circumstances beyond control of both parties.
11. Claims and complaints
Claims and complaints shall be submitted to the Course Bureau at Goethe-Institut in Warsaw. The management of Course and Exam Department shall reply to claims and complaints in writing within two weeks of their submission.
12. Validity of General Terms and Conditions
12.1. Goethe-Institut in Warsaw reserves the right to amend the General Terms and Conditions of Participation. Such an amendment shall be effective at the time specified by Goethe-Institut in Warsaw. The amendment may not come in force earlier than 14 days from the moment the changed Terms and Conditions of Participation are made available to the Participants.
12.2. The present provisions of the General Terms and Conditions of Participation come into effect on 05.09.2022.
- 01.11. - 02.11.23
- 11.11.23
- 20.12.23 - 06.01.24
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- on the Goethe-Institut e-learning platform: https://lernen.goethe.de on the first page and
- in your profile on the Goethe-Institut portal “MyGoethe.de”: https://my.goethe.de under "Courses".
The login data is the same for both sides.
Access to your online course room remains active 4 months after the end of the course.
We will be happy to answer any questions you may have by phone at: +48225059042. Due to high demand, our telephone lines may be overloaded. In this case, please contact us by email:
kurs-warschau@goethe.de.
- Autumn quarter: September-November
- Winter quarter: November-February
- Spring quarter: February-April
- Summer quarter: April-June
- Winter semester (children's and youth courses): September or October-February (with a break for school winter holidays in the Mazovia region)
- Summer semester (children's and youth courses): February-June
- Superintensive courses: July, August, September
An overview of courses can be found here:
We offer courses at all language levels: beginners (A1), advanced (B1-B2) and for users with a very high level of proficiency in German (C1-C2). Additionally, we offer a variety of specialised courses.
Course Levels (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
We will send you information, if a course that has already been paid for has to be cancelled before it starts. Should this happen, we will try to propose an alternative solution or we will refund the course fee.
Information on the textbook needed for a given course is available below:
Textbooks – courses for adults
Textbooks – Courses for children and teens Winter term 2023/24
Textbooks can be purchased with a 15% discount in the following bookstores:
- Bookland, Al. Jerozolimskie 55
- Bookland, ul. Kredytowa 2
- POLANGLO: ul. Chmielna 27/31
or in the Hueber-Verlag online shop from the offer for students and course participants
with a discount of 20% when you use the code: HIGWAW
or the Klett-Verlag online shop with a discount of 10% when you use the code: Goethe Institut
Other learning materials are provided to you free of charge by the teacher. They are usually digital and are located in your virtual classroom. You will receive the access data before the course begins.
In the German Online Group Courses (DOGR), all teaching materials are on our learning platform. You do not need a textbook for this course.
- Exam dates for persons from the age of 16
- Exam dates for children and adolescents
- Dates of the Goethe-Test PRO: Deutsch für den Beruf
Other dates and cities are available from our Licensed Examination Centres throughout Poland.
- Information on the examinations of the Goethe-Institut in Warsaw can be found at www.goethe.de/warschau/pruefungen.
- Exam dates, payment conditions and the offer of our Licensed Examination Centers in Poland can be found on the Termine und Anmeldung page.
- The current examination prices are presented on the Prüfungspreise.
Materialien von Verlagen
Self-study materials:
Materialien zum Selbstlernen
Guidance for those preparing for examinations on their own:
Tipps zum selbstständigen Vorbereiten auf Prüfungen
Please select the respective exam there. In the middle of the page with the description of the exam you will find a window with the online registration.