VESPA (Verbund für Sprachenangelegenheiten) is a university language course cooperation program between Hochschule der Medien and Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart and Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, which aims at teaching languages together and across institutional borders.

German Courses in Winter Semester 2023/24

Intensive Courses
Course dates: 04.09.-27.09.2023
Course times see Program
Online via Zoom
Registration: 31.07.–23.08.2023 via eveeno

Semester Course
The German courses (face to face) in the winter semester take place at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences and at the Stuttgart Media University.
Start: 11.10.2023
Current Semesterkurse
Registration: 18.09.–25.09.2023 via eveeno

Online Language Training with Speexx:

The online training solution Speexx is now available at VESPA Verbund. All students and staff members of our cooperating universities have the opportunity to use this software without paying any course fees. Learn whenever and wherever you want – at work, at home or anywhere else you choose, and across multiple devices. The following languages are available:

• English and Business-English
• Spanish and Business-Spanish
• French
• German as a Foreign Language

By using Speexx, you can train your grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and text comprehension skills flexibly. Besides general language courses, business courses are also being offered. The courses are structured according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) into eight levels from A1 to C1.2:

• A1 and A2 for beginner and elementary user
• B1.1 and B1.2 for intermediate user
• B2.1 and B2.2 for upper intermediate user
• C1 for proficient user (only for English available)

For each language you can take the placement test in advance in order to determine the correct course level. Learn more about Speexx by watching this demo video. Download the Speexx Factsheet here.

In order to use Speexx you need to register on this website by using your internal university email address: https://register.speexx.com/mh-vespa-verbund/de

Foreign Language Courses
This semester, we offer offer courses in the following languages from beginners to advanced level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): English, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Japanese.

• Wednesday Course Winter Semester 2023/24 – starts: 11.10.2023
  
• Registration period: 18.09.-02.10.2023
  
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