DaF – Placement & registration

Before you register for a learning solution, we would like to know what kind of course or learning format best fits you. This is why you should first complete a placement test, and then come to a personal advising session at the DaF Office at the Neues Palais Campus.

• Placement tests are always online as of April 1 or October 1; access via the DaF start page. The test is available for about four weeks.
• Personal advising  at the DaF Office at the Neues Palais Campus. at the moment not possible.

It is not required to take a placement test when you:

• are just beginning to learn German, or
• have already received a certificate for “A1” for example “Goethe-Zertifikat Start Deutsch 1“ or "telc Deutsch A1" or a similar certificate of level A1 but not higher than A1 => registration in A2.

The current course catalogue will be published by March 15 and September 15 for the following semester.

Please note that our offerings are partly liable to tuition fees according to the Zessko payment regulations - "Gebührensatzung des Zessko".

a)  directly online:

• only for basic courses A1 (beginners)
• Fill out of the online form at our website. Please note that this form is only active as of April 1 or October 1 for the following semester.

b) in person at the DaF Office (not possible at the moment):

• for all other courses starting at A2 level (and higher)
• after the placement test
• directly at advising session (no adisng in German office at the moment -  more information on enrollment will be published here as soon as it becomes availible).

c) through PULS:

• directly, without a test, for full-time students at the University of Potsdam (not for Erasmus students, program students, or doctoral candidates)
• it is possible to have an advising session