Welcome to the Language Centre of the University of Erfurt!

Team
Languages
SPC service in C03-LG1 with opening hours
Registration for the language courses in the winter semester 2025/2026 & placement tests during the STET

Enrolment in the language courses takes place in three phases:

1st phase (16/09/2025, 10:00 - 01/10/2025, 18:00)
For students who have already successfully completed one of our language courses and would like to continue at a higher level (from A2).

2nd phase (09.10.2025, 16:00 - 10.10.2025, 18:00)
Registration for students without previous knowledge (A1 courses) and again for all courses from A2.

3rd phase (17.10.2025, 16:00 - 21.10.2025, 18:00)
Free remaining places will be opened for enrolment.

Further information on enrolment: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/organisation/service/anmeldung-zu-den-sprachkursen

Note for students from other Thuringian universities: If you receive a course place after confirmation from the lecturer (please contact them by email), please enrol as a secondary listener: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/studium/vor-dem-studium/bewerbung-zulassung-einschreibung/zweithoerer and apply for access to the Moodle learning platform via rz@uni-erfurt.de.

Placement tests:

No placement test is required for pure beginner courses (A1) (no previous knowledge required). However, if you have previous knowledge of a foreign language, you must take a placement test. This applies to German as a foreign language (DaF), English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish. For all other languages, please contact the respective lecturers regarding the placement tests. The placement tests will take place during the STET week from 6-10 October 2025.

Our Profile

Our Profile

We are a central service that supports you in learning 14 different foreign languages and German Sign Language. We also run courses in voice training, organise interesting student events and offer a wide range of additional activities for students and employees.

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Our newsletter

Our newsletter, <sprachbo>, is published twice a year and covers, amongst other things, the latest news, projects and events, training courses and conferences, staff updates, and shares amusing anecdotes from the language courses.</sprachbo>

  • Summer Term 2026 edition: DE / EN
  • Winter Semester 2025/26 edition: DE / EN
  • Summer Semester 2025 edition: DE / EN
  • Winter Semester 2024/25 edition: DE / EN
  • Summer Term 2024 edition: DE / EN

What we offer

What we offer

  • We support the humanities departments by offering language practice and cultural courses.
  • We offer language courses for students from all faculties.
  • We provide advice on the recognition of international certificates or academic achievements from semesters spent abroad. Further information can be found here.
  • We organise language courses for employees.
  • We provide voice training programmes for teacher training students.
  • We bring together students of different nationalities in tandem programmes and writing workshops here
  • We offer students planning a semester abroad the opportunity to take a free English proficiency test that is accepted by our partner universities. Further information can be found here.
  • We enrich cultural life at the university through music, diversity and intercultural exchange.

Our team

Our team

Our team consists of a management team, employees, adjunct lecturers and student assistants.

Our partners

Our partners

Our internal partners are:

  • Faculty of Philosophy and Economics, Law and Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Catholic Theology
  • International Office
  • ESE
  • MWK
  • e-Teach

Our external partners are:

  • Thuringian colleges and universities
  • AKS
  • FaDaF
  • Cercles
  • Eszi

     

Our organisation

Here you will find all the key organisational information that characterises the Language Centre’s work. Simply click here.

Our schedule, projects and events

16.10.2026

Allocation of remaining places

Registration for the last remaining places on the course will take place on 16 October 2026 via MOSES.

21.10.2026

Tandem Programme

Learn languages, discover new cultures and meet new people! Interested? Sign up now and become part of our tandem programme!

26.10.2026

E.L.V.I.S. Enrolment for language courses from 26 October to 7 November 2026 via E.L.V.I.S.

Course enrolment via E.L.V.I.S. is compulsory and also serves as your exam registration.

27.10.2026

Jazz concert | 7:30 pm | Erfurter Kaufmannskirche

The next concert in the series "Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain" features Conny Bauer, a legendary trombonist and influential figure in GDR jazz, with young Berlin pianist Louis Rastig. Bauer has long ties to Berlin's ever-changing improvisation scene, and this duo gives that connection a new, contemporary dimension.

Ticktes are available via the link.

28.10.2026

Go-Out Day

Information session on studying abroad 2027/2028 from 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm at the KIZ

16.11.2026

Reading with Charline Effah

The Romance Studies Department, the Language Centre’s French Section, and the Institut Français invite you to:

Charline Effah reads from her novel Les femmes de Bidibidi

– Reading predominantly in French –

16 November 2026 | 6:00 p.m. | University of Erfurt Campus | Room C01-AMG 0012


01.12.2026

Registration for the B2/C1 Examinations for Erasmus and Exchange Applicants

The registration for the B2 and C1 level exams runs from 1 to 15 December 2026, via Moodle. The link to the Moodle registration room will be announced in good time. Please note that the B2 level examination for Erasmus applicants is only offered in the winter semester 2026/2027.

Further information on the requirements can be found on the website.

Contact

Sprachenzentrum (SPZ)
Head: Dr. Susanne Hoppe, Assistant: Annika Fingerloos
(Language Centre)
German Courses (DaF)
Frau Kraut-Stuber | Frau Markov
(Language Centre)
Student assistants at the Language Centre
Issuance of notes and certificates
(Language Centre)
C03 – teaching building 1 / C03.03.38

Teachers

You can find contact information about our teachers here by scrolling down.

Latest news

It’s set to be another exciting event: on Friday 6 November, from 6 pm, the City of Erfurt, together with other partners, is hosting the smartest night of the year, and of course the University of Erfurt will be taking part too. Once again, as part…

After five years of successful collaboration, the Language Centre and the Professorship of Applied Linguistics will say goodbye to their lecturer from the Turkish government Dr. Hakan Cangır and his wife Çiğdem Alparda Cangır. They will leave Erfurt…

Are you attending a Romance language course and would you like to share your photos from Romania with us? Take part now and win.

Students and employees of the University of Erfurt now have access to a new support service for cases of racially motivated attacks. The initiators are the International Office and the Diversity Officer, who now want to implement the offer as a…

Events

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C21 – Centre for Communication and Information (KIZ) (Campus)
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