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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5844 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes  Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 7 29 May 2009 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone know what the officially recognised and well known certificates for German are?
(I want to investigate, pick one of the easiest and set passing that as my intermediate goal... ) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5675 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 7 29 May 2009 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Cordelia,
The most well known and recognized are probably the certificates of the Goethe Institute: http://www.goethe.de/lrn/prf/enindex.htm They have certificates for all levels, plus business German. It is possible to sit the exams outside of Germany. TestDaf is also pretty well known. http://www.testdaf.de/ Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5844 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 3 of 7 29 May 2009 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for that - I should have worked that out myself actually but it just slipped my mind! I'll definitely aim for the first level there!
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5853 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 7 29 May 2009 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, indeed. Goethe Institut offers the well-known "Kleines Sprachdiplom" "Großes Sprachdiplom" Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 29 May 2009 at 9:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cisa Super Polyglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6425 days ago 312 posts - 309 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Hungarian*, Slovak, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin, SpanishB2, RussianB2, GermanB2, Korean, Czech, Latin Studies: Italian, Cantonese, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Hindi, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 7 10 June 2009 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Goethe Institut´s exam´s absolutely the most prestigious and you find a plenty of preparation material out there, as well as exam preparation courses.
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| krog Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 6055 days ago 146 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Latin | Message 6 of 7 18 June 2009 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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From Austria: ÖSD
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| RBenham Triglot Groupie IndonesiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5649 days ago 60 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Indonesian | Message 7 of 7 20 June 2009 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello. In relation to the Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom and its big brother the Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom, I would recommend the (admittedly expensive) Goethe-Institut preparation courses.
The reason for this is partly that the teachers know the requirements; some of the sub-tests can be completed almost formulaically if you know what the examiners want to see, but also, you get to have some input into the choice of unseen oral topics if you are a G-I student. Some may see that as corrupt, but it's the way things are: if you want the piece of paper, your chances are better with a G-I course. The level is quite high, too: the GDS is one of the few certificates around generally acknowledged as being of higher than C2 level. The KDS is at C2 level, but even so, there is another C2-level exam that's generally considered to be lower in status: the Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung, which may have changed its name recently. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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