Learning German

If you want to study in Germany it's absolutely necessary to have at least a small level of german. Most of german people speak english but they usually prefer not to. And they respect you a lot if you at least try to express yourself in german. In the university everything is in german. But if the class is small and there are more Erasmus and/or exchange students, teachers could decide to make the class in english. The universities have language schools (Sprachzentrum). For erasmus students they usually have free intensive courses. And if you want to continue with the course you pay a small amount of 30 euros per semester. There are also a lot of people that find a german Tandem to make a language exchange. German people are very interested in languages like spanish or italian. It's a very interesting way of learning the language. With my Tandem we usually do one day german and then the next day we only talk in spanish, this way we don't mix languages and we force ourselves to speak in the language we want to learn.

You can also try to improve your level online. I can suggest you some interesting links: http://www.deutsch-lernen.com/ - here you have Grammar and exercises; http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/ - here you can make a test level, grammar exercises and you also have other interesting information about life in Germany, http://www.goethe.de/lrn/duw/enindex.htm - grammar and exercises, communication with other learners, very important when you want to prepare for exams. I hope it's quite usefull.