Courses Available
Designed to meet the individual needs of the student, our private German lessons improve your overall fluency by helping you build vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar skills. Lessons are available for all levels — from total beginner to advanced — and can focus on the topic or skill of your choice. Classes include valuable tips on German culture as well. Private lessons generally meet in two-hour blocks and can be scheduled at the time and location of your choice.
Custom German group classes are also available by request.
For more information about German lessons, contact Michelle – Michelle@WetzelServices.com.
Testing and Certification
Our instructors can help you prepare for a Goethe Institute test (such as the Zertifikat Deutsch) or a spoken language evaluation such as the ACTFL OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview).
Our Teachers
We have highly-qualified native, non-native, and Gymnasium-certified German tutors available. All our tutors have been teaching German for at least 10 years.
German Fast Facts
- German is the official language in seven countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, as well as parts of Italy and Belgium).
- German is a very popular second-language choice in the English speaking world (and also among Japanese students – 68% of whom study German). This is largely due to its strong international business presence: German companies provide approximately 700,000 jobs in the United States, and US companies have created approximately the same number of jobs in Germany.
- German is a varied language. It has a number of dialects which may not be understood at all by those who speak only standard German.
- German is a highly inflected language: for instance, nouns can be inflected for gender (masculine, feminine, or neuter), case (nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative) and number (singular and plural). This is just one reason why German has a reputation for being a grammatical challenge for second language learners. (Though our instructors make it look like cake…)
