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English UNIcert®III, for Professional Purposes still have places available!
Our English C1 courses still have places available!
Weiden:
- English UNIcert® III, for Professional Purposes II, Wed., 17.30 - 20.45, starts on 19.03.2025, room BW 120
Amberg:
- English UNIcert® III, for Professional Purposes I, Wed., 15.30 - 18.45, starts on 19.03.2025
Online registration is open until 15 March.
Fancy Romance languages? We still have places available!
The Language Centre offers the following language courses in the coming summer semester:
Amberg:
- Business Spanish A1 - Wed., 15.30 - 18.45, starts on 19.03.2025
- Italian A2 - Mon., 16.00 - 19.15, starts on 24.03.2025
Weiden:
- Business Spanish A1 - Tues., 15.45 - 19.00, starts on 18.03.2025 in WTC 1.29
- Business Spanish A2 - Wed., 15.45 - 19.00, starts on 19.03.2025 in WTC 1.29
Enrolments here
Our English UNIcert II courses have been restructured: Get the UNIcert certificate in only 2 semesters!
With the start of the semester, our UNIcert II courses only consist of two modules, which we offer alternately at each of our locations:
Business English in Weiden: Mondays, 15.45 - 19.00 (4 SWS/5 ECTS), starts on 24 March 2025, room WTC 1.29
Technical English in Amberg: Thursdays, 15.30 - 18.45 (4 SWS/5 ECTS), starts on 20 March 2025, room MBUT 024
Register here!
Online registration for the summer semester 2025
Online registration for our language courses in the summer semester 2025 is activated!
Czech - now you can learn the language of our neighbours!
„Speaking foreign languages is the key to international understanding and cultural exchange. But why is there so little interest in the language of our Czech neighbours? And is there another way?”
Listen to the impressions of Czech learners and teachers in a very interesting audio report (in German)
»Update«
For the coming summer semester 2025 we are planning a Czech course for beginners in Weiden and in Amberg (UNIcert Basis Module 1), registration is possible until 15 March!
Students delighted with Unicert® III certificates
11.12.2024
For the participants of the Unicert® III English course, it was probably something of an early Christmas present: they were finally handed over their language certificate - a valuable document that not only demonstrates language competence, but also the ability to communicate interculturally. Moreover it is a confirmation of the students' hard work and commitment.
Since 2001, the Language Centre has been running language courses from the UNIcert® language programme - a nationally recognised, practice-oriented and demanding training and examination system offered exclusively at universities.
Congratulations to all graduates and well done!
BintHo-Report: Positive feedback for German courses
A reason to celebrate! According to a Germany-wide survey conducted as part of the DAAD's ‘Benchmark internationale Hochschule’ (BintHo) project, international students at OTH Amberg-Weiden rate the quality German courses at our Language Centre above average.
Compared to other universities of applied sciences, not only do more students take advantage of the German courses on offer, they also feel better supported in developing their language skills. This is mostly the merit of our German lecturers, a big thank you for that!
You snooze, you lose: Our German course programme is constantly being expanded. You will find information about upcoming courses on our website from February on!
The Language Centre has moved!
From now on you will find us in
- Amberg, in building A, room 105 (1st floor LEFT)
- Weiden, in the WTC building, room 1.23 and 1.25 (1st floor LEFT)
Final examination English UNIcert III for Professional Purposes in Amberg
The final examination of the language course English UNIcert III for Professional Purposes in Amberg
will take place on 05 October 2024 in Amberg, 10.00, MB/UT 024.
We wish you every success!
New: German-English glossary for university context
For German-English translations for a university context you can now look up the most important administrative terms used at our university under the "Glossary" menu item on the Language Centre website.
There you will also find links to external glossaries or translation guidelines.
UNIcert certificates are ready to pick up at the Language Centre!
As of now, UNIcert certificates for Russian and English can be picked up at the Language Centre in Weiden, room WTC 1.32.
Learn something different than most? Our Chinese courses still have places available!
The Chinese HSK 2 course (for beginners) starts on Tuesday, 19 March 2024 at 17:30.
These language courses prepare for the HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) certificate exam at the Confucius Institute Nuremberg-Erlangen.
The HSK certificate serves as proof of Chinese language ability and is recognized worldwide. Further information is available in the course!
Course registration is open until 15 March!
Good luck with your exams and have a relaxing semester break!
The Language Centre team wishes you all a successful exam period and a nice and relaxing semester break!
See you soon!
20 years UNIcert® at the OTH Amberg-Weiden
20 years ago, in the summer semester of 2002, the first language courses from the UNIcert® language program started at OTH Amberg-Weiden.
Today, we can draw a thoroughly positive balance: Since the summer semester of 2002, a total of 6272 students have taken part in the courses at OTH Amberg-Weiden and 1298 UNIcert® certificates have already been issued for the languages English, Polish, Russian and Czech. Our students benefit from a clearly structured course program with courses that build on each other and acquire a meaningful certificate that transparently documents and attests to the skills they have acquired. The multilingual certificate is recognized by German and, in some cases, foreign universities as proof, e.g. when applying for a place on a master's program, and is a plus point for application documents.
Also in the Corona semester, various language courses from the UNIcert® language program were offered and in the summer semester 2021, a total of 29 students completed their language training with a UNIcert® certificate - congratulations!