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We are the first ÖSD exam centre in the canton of Zurich! The Sprachen Akademie has some great news: since the beginning of the year, the Sprachen Akademie is officially the first ÖSD exam centre in the canton of Zurich. Read on to find out what this means and why it's important for you to know! What are ÖSD exams? ÖSD stands not only for Österreichisches Sprachdiplom Deutsch, but also for Österreich (Austria), Schweiz(Switzerland) and Deutschland (Germany). The ÖSD exams are therefore not only aimed at people in Austria, but are also internationally recognised. The exams are based on the guidelines [...]

Improve Your German by Reading Today we are going to focus once again on learning German outside the classroom. We already got to know two of many methods in the blog posts Tandem Language Learning and The Best Free Podcasts to Learn German. These were mainly about speaking German and listening to German. Now we want to look at another skill: reading. As a matter of fact, there are many opportunities for you to read in German. However, this first blog post is only about reading books. More specifically, we want to give you an overview of German literature from [...]