Course offer
The tandem courses do not only provide a framework for planning and organising your own learning independently and creatively with the aim to make individual learning successful. They also offer the opportunity to learn together with a tandem partner and earn credit points for your studies.
Below, you can find out more about the different course formats.
Face-to-face tandem courses
In a face-to-face tandem, both partners are on site (in Münster). You plan the weekly tandem meetings together and decide individually on your learning objectives and the meetings' contents. Both the time and location of the tandem meetings can be chosen flexibly and agreed upon by both partners.
The introductory sessions, language learning counselling sessions and workshops take place on-site at the Language Centre.
eTandem courses
Apart from learning with a language partner here in Münster, learning in tandem also works over great distances, e.g. via Zoom or Teams. In our remote tandem courses, the so-called eTandem courses, both partners are based in different places/countries. As in a face-to-face-tandem, you plan the weekly tandem meetings together and decide individually on your learning objectives and the meetings' contents. You have the free choice of location (at home, at the library etc.), you can share additional media (webpages, audio files, written documents, etc.) and use them together, and you have the option of organizing the meetings with or without the video function, etc.
For tandem meetings with partners from Latin America (Argentina and Uruguay), the time difference must always be taken into account.
The introductory session (held jointly with the partner university) takes place via Zoom. The language learning counselling sessions, workshops and the evaluation meeting, as well as the end-of-semester session, take place on-site at the Language Centre alongside the face-to-face tandem course.
More information about our tandem courses for the upcoming semester
Register here for the tandem programme
