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AUSTRIA : Vienna

The school was founded in 1988 and has 6 classrooms, all equipped with the modern linguistic and audio-visual technique. It is in the centre town, not far from the opera and the palace. It will be a very international place of meeting.

Tuition Programs

• 1 lesson: 45 minutes
• Minimum age: 16 years
• Schedule: (8:00 AM - 1:00 PM)
• Maximum of 12 students per class, average of 8.
• All programs: 5 additional lessons of a cultural nature: city tour, dance course, video and conversation upon history, music, art, literature;  admission not included. 
• All levels available
• Multi-media centre available and library
• Access to Internet and Email. 
• Evaluation and linguistic certificate of formation
• 30 lessons per week: 20 lessons (group) + 10 lessons (mini group of 5 to 8 students).
• Cultural and social program  2 to 3 times per week, inputs not included
• Teaching material included.
• German for business: 20 general lessons + 10 specific for the business world: minimum level required: intermediate.
• German and ski: to be chosen between one complete week and one day. Available between December and March only. Supplement to be paid beside the standard program.
• German and music/lyric art: One instrumental or vocal lesson per week (40 minutes). Where: Vienna academy of Music. Certificate to be issued at the end of the program. 

Starting Dates

Beginners must start on these dates. Other levels, every Monday of the year.
 * Starting dates for "German for business"

Closing Dates

 For those having German and music/lyric arts there will be no course to the Academy of Music on the following dates:

Options Available

• Transfer (one way), station or airport: 36 €
• Private tuition: upon request
• 6 additional hours per month of music or lyric arts: 205 €
• Courses for foreign German teachers: July 8.
• Long term courses: 12, 24 or 36 weeks upon request

Our prices are available from January 1st to December 31th, 2002. These prices never include the Air Fare. 

Costs

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CAUTION: SUPPLEMENT FOR ALL COURSES TAKING PLACE BETWEEN 01/07 AND 23/08, 2002: 
                                                               41 €   PER WEEK

German and ski:
 1 full day: 53 € and includes:
Train round trip Vienna - Semmering
Transfer round trip from train station to the ski area.
Pass for 5 ski lifts

1 week from January 20 to 27 or March 2 to 9, 2002: 671 € and includes:
Train round trip Vienna Kitzbuehel
Transfer round trip from train station to the ski area.
Pass for 6 days of ski lifts
Accommodation in a Guesthouse 3*, single or double occupancy, breakfast included.

Family, residence hall or apartment accommodation.

• Arrival Sunday.
• Departure Saturday.
• Family or residence or apartment: room in single or double occupancy, no meal *.
         * Please add 35 € per week for 1 meal per day included in family or residence accommodation.
           Please add 112 € per week for 2 meals per day included in family or residence accommodation.

Our greeting families are recruited with great care. The criteria of selection are very rigorous and each family must satisfy a precise schedule of conditions: excellent morality, desire to communicate with their host, satisfactory social standing. We should specify that the families will only speak with you the language of the country where you will be. It is the principle of the immersion courses!

Town information's 

Vienna, capital of Austria, is divided in 23 districts. Its population is approximately 1,531,000 inhabitants. It became during the XII century a stage of crossroad of Bysance (vestiges of Romance churches) and during the XIII century the capital of the Habsburg states and remained it until 1918. Rodolph IV founded in 1365 the first university of German language. Its high Gothic cathedral Saint-Etienne was completed in 1433. It decorated Renaissance Palace (of which Porcia) before becoming the bastion of Christendom with the Turks, who occupied Hungary during the XVI century and partially destroyed the city in 1683.It was covered with baroques monuments (palace of the aristocrats, Hofburg, church St-Charles de Borromee and at the following century of traditional rococo monuments , castle of Schonbrunn), at the same time as it became the European heart of artistic and musical life. Its people built Albertina, the national Library: Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven played there. Vienna is now the seat of many congresses and world organizations and accommodates each year many tourists who will collect themselves on the tombs of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.

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