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Language Cafés

What is a Language Cafe?

The idea is quite simple: At a Language Café you can just drop by, chat with each other in a nice atmosphere and at the same time polish up your language skills, make new friends and find out more about other cultures. The meetings are led by native speakers.

In each semester we offer language cafes in many different languages face-to-face and/or online.

Students from our ECIU partner universities are very welcome to join the online language cafés as participants or language guides. Please contact us.

The language cafes are expected to start in mid-April and mid-October. The meetings do not take place on holidays and during the lecture-free period.

Please note that no ECTS points can be credited.

News

20.11.2024

Chat & Chill in the AStA Cafe

Are you curious about other cultures and languages? Language Café presents: Chat & Chill! Come along and join in. We look forward to seeing you!

20.11.2024

Language Guides wanted

For our language cafés, we are looking for language guides for this semester who volunteer to offer a language café in their mother tongue. 😀

Language Cafes in winter semester 2024/2025

You can join at any time during the semester. However, we ask you to register on StudIP for organisational reasons. There you will also find the start date and room information. Just click on the Language Café in which you are interested.

Language	When?	Where?	Who?
Arabic	Mondays, 6 - 7 pm.	Room details on StudIP	Yehia
English	Wednesdays (odd weeks), 5 - 6 pm. Thursdays (even weeks), 5 - 6 pm.		Cameron and Donald
French	Wednesday, 2.45 - 3.45 pm.		Victor
German (A2/B1)	Thursdays, 5 - 6 pm.		Silja, Björn, Edgar and Jarl
German (B2/C1/C2)	Mondays, 4 - 5 pm.		Swantje and Suresh
Italian	t.b.a.		Alessandro
Korean	Thursdays, 4.45 - 5.45 pm.		Hyewon
Polish	Tuesdays, 5 - 6 pm.		Damian
Russian	Wednesdays, 6.30 - 7.30 pm.		Viktoriia
Spanish	Thursdays, 6 - 7 pm.		Carlos,Yusef, Jorge, Juan and Ismael

TU Hamburg, Language Cafe Kick-off Meeting

Spanish Language Cafe: Tapas Evening

Language Guides Meeting at Elbe Beach

TU Hamburg, Language Cafe Kick-off Meeting

We are looking for Language Guides. Join us!

Are you interested in supporting the language cafe program? Then join our native speakers‘ team and take over a (virtual) table for your language. We are looking for people who speak languages like German, English, Spanish, French or Italian. Other languages are also very welcome! You don’t need to have any teaching experience.

What do you get out of it? You will gain skills in moderating groups and if you participate regularly as a language guide (at least 8 times), you will receive a confirmation of your voluntary commitment. In the best case, there are several language guides per language, so you can take turns. Students from ECIU partner universities are also welcome to volunteer as language guides!

The activity as a language guide is recognised for the Certificate Intercultural Competence.

Further information can be found in our guideline. For your contribution to internationalisation we offer a confirmation of your voluntary work.

If your are interested in becoming a language guide you are welcome to attend the info meeting for new Language Guides on 15 October 2024, 4 pm. in room H 0.05.

Contact

Kathrin Heuking

52 Incomings and Integration

Incomings and Integration

Office Hours

Montag, 09:00 - 12:30 + Donnerstag, 13:00 - 15:00

Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 3 (E),

21073 Hamburg

Building E, Room 0.058

Phone: +49 40 42878 3503

E-mail: kathrin.heuking(at)tuhh(dot)de