Deutsch Jugendcamp Ruhpolding

German lessons run on course days in two to three blocks and put the basic skills first: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The approach is communicative and task-based, so learning is active and close to practice, and teachers build a motivating setting with language games and creative projects. The camp covers fifty-six lessons of forty-five minutes over thirteen course days in two weeks, Monday to Friday 09:00-12:30 and three to four afternoons a week 14:00-15:30, which is twenty-eight lessons a week. Levels offered are A1 (not for absolute beginners), A2, B1 and B2, and a class holds no more than sixteen participants. Course books are used at every level and the course material is covered by the price.

The price covers German lessons with course material, the culture and leisure programme, accommodation at the Labenbachhof, three meals a day, laundry during the course, the supervised transfer between Munich airport and the camp on the official arrival and departure days, health, accident and liability insurance from the moment the participant leaves the home country, supervision around the clock and the day trip that comes with the course. Personal spending and excursions outside the programme are not included.

Participants stay at the Labenbachhof, a modern seminar and guest house set in open country at the foot of the Rauschberg, with bright seminar rooms, comfortable lounges and extensive outdoor grounds for sport and games. Rooms hold two, three or four beds. Girls and boys are accommodated separately, on different floors or in different houses; towels and bed linen are provided and changed regularly, and laundry can be handed in during the course. The team is present in the house around the clock.

Three meals a day plus snacks and drinks, so nobody goes hungry. Food is served in the old farmhouse dating from the eighteenth century and is fresh and regional. Vegetarian options are a matter of course, as are dishes without pork.

After lessons the adventure begins: the surrounding mountains are there to be explored, and the programme offers archery, football, table tennis, table football, a creative workshop, cinema evenings, museum visits, campfire evenings with music and bread on a stick, swimming, volleyball and hiking. One day trip is part of the course.

The camp uses the Labenbachhof: seminar rooms, lounges, the farmhouse dining room and wide outdoor grounds with space for sport and games, all in one place at the foot of the Rauschberg. Mountains, clear lakes and green forests begin at the door.

Ruhpolding lies in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps, surrounded by mountains, clear lakes and green forest - a paradise for anyone who loves nature, where Bavarian tradition, warm hospitality and a varied leisure programme come together. Participants learn German and discover the place at the same time, alongside young people from all over the world.