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As just described, basic knowledge of the German language must be proven before a study in Germany. Generally, German language skills on the level of B2 are required. For this reason, KAAD offers its scholarship holders a German language course in before the start of the studies. Depending on the already existing German language skills, the language course can last between 1 and 6 months. The complete costs are covered by KAAD. Those scholarship holders who have already successfully completed a German course either in Germany – if they were already in Germany at the time of application – or in their country of origin, do not have to take the KAAD German course in Bonn. However, only very few of the interviewees had previously taken a German course in their country of origin.
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Almost three quarters of the scholarship holders and alumni surveyed answered that they had acquired the German language “very intensively” or “intensively”. Accordingly, around 20% of the respondents answered “somewhat” and around 7% “a little”. Only 1% answered that they had not learned German at all (n = 378). Alumni who had learned only a little or no German also include those who studied in an English-language degree programme or wrote their doctoral thesis in English (or rather in Spanish).
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Krannich, S., Hunger, U. (2024). Results: During the Studies. In: Student Migration and Development. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43125-9_4
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