The THI Language Center offers language and intercultural electives for enrolled students of THI. Depending on your degree program, you can take these subjects as electives with ECTS credit or as free electives with a university certificate. To find out which subjects you can choose for your degree program, please contact the responsible program director directly.

In principle, you can take all subjects of the Language Center, even if a module is not offered as an elective subject for your degree program. If you are interested, you can enroll in a subject after consulting the Language Center, in case that there are still places available.

The course offerings for English include:

1. Course-related compulsory and elective subjects with ECTS credits

• General compulsory/elective subjects
• Electives for language and social competence

2. Free electives that can be taken by all THI students (university certificate)

Please refer to the pdf for the course outline.

For information on course objectives and content, please refer to the Module Handbook of the Language Center.

• Placement test: At the beginning of the semester, the Language Centre offers a placement test for all THI students who are interested. This assesses the student's language proficiency level according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).
• Test for the DAAD certificate: In order to take a semester abroad (study/internship), THI students require evidence of proficiency in English. Many THI partner universities accept a DAAD certificate. THI students can have this certificate issued by the Language Centre based on a 30-minute online test and an interview. For further information on studying abroad, see the pages of the International Office.

The THI Language Centre offers a number of courses for THI students as certificate courses. When students pass the examination at the end of the THI course, they are issued with a THI higher education certificate.
THI students will find details of the THI certificate courses in the Language Centre Module Guide on Moodle.

• BBC English language learning site (UK): Probably the best online English Language learning site with a wide variety of topics and levels, contains audio and video clips, Real Player required.
• Learn English (UK): Excellent online learning site produced by the British Council.
• Das Amerika Haus: Here you will find an overview of the resources of the Amerikahaus for teachers, pupils and students.

• The Guardian: Politically left of centre quality newspaper, very good for job advertisements and excellent search archive.
• The Economist: A political magazine which deals with current events on an international scale. Includes opinions on world affairs.
• Forbes Magazine: A global magazine focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle.
• Fortune Magazine: An American multinational business magazine.
• Der Spiegel International: The international version of Spiegel. Good for Germany-related topics in English.
• Spotlight online: Magazine produced in Munich for learners of all levels with vocabulary help and activities.

• Language and Learning Online: Tutorials created by Monash University Australia helping students to write texts for academic purposes.
• Business Letter Punch: Site gives step by step guide on how to write a successful business letter. Suitable for intermediate to advanced students.
• Essay Punch: Takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic essay (essay structure/vocabulary/style). Suitable for intermediate to advanced students.

• CNN (US): US, European and Asian versions available.
• Public Broadcasting Service (US): Private, non-profit media enterprise which offers qualitiy news.
• National Public Radio (US): Non-profit national radio station.
• Stitcher (US): Large selection of podcasts for download or simply as an App.
• Voice of America (US): Podcast, in dem internationale Nachrichten täglich auf Englisch und aus amerikanischer Perspektive wiedergegeben werden. Dabei wird versucht, einfaches Vokabular und kurze Sätze zu verwenden.
• BBC News Site (UK): Probably the most comprehensive news site, uses Real Player for audio and video clips.
• The Inquiry: Englisch lernen mit BBC: Zusammen mit Expert*innen wird hier in jeder Podcast-Folge ein aktuelles Thema aus den Nachrichten behandelt und analysiert.
• 6 Minute English: Englisch lernen mit BBC: In schönstem British English sprechen ein Mann und eine Frau jeden Donnerstag über ein aktuelles Thema oder eine wichtige Nachricht. Die Themen sind interessant, objektiv und gut nachvollziehbar. Außerdem wird versucht, langsam und deutlich zu sprechen und kurze Sätze zu verwenden.
• The English We Speak: Englisch lernen mit BBC: Ein Podcast, der sich jede Woche drei Minuten lang mit einem anderen umgangssprachlichen britisch-englischen Ausdruck befasst.
• Spark – True Stories Live: In jeder Folge erzählen mehrere Menschen ihre Geschichte aus dem wirklichen Leben. Jede Geschichte dauert dabei weniger als 5 Minuten.

• The Online English Grammar: Online grammar handbook. Site is interesting because it is so well maintained and organised. It is easy to find detailed explanations of grammar problems with clear example sentences.
• Preply: Learning platform for grammar and vocabulary.
• English Page: Offers a tutorial and an in-depth explanation of grammar points followed by a number of exercises that can be checked immediately.

Neben den sprachenübergreifenden Online-Wörterbüchern wie Pons, Leo oder Linguee finden Sie hier weitere nützliche Links.

• Cambridge Dictionaries Online (UK): Offers a whole selection of dictionaries (UK), the most comprehensive one is The Cambridge International Dictionary of English, the only disadvantage is that there are no pronunciation audio clips.
• Synonym: Synonymwörterbuch. Kostenlose Suchmaschine für mehr als 480.000 englische Synonyme.