Additional Information

Trial lesson

Make use of our unique feature: All participants are entitled to one or more trial lessons during the first two weeks of courses (January 13 to 25, 2025). You can go to any course you are interested in and decide on the spot whether you want to enrol or not. Your teacher will be pleased to advise you there about course content and materials.

If you would like to try out an online course, please let us know by mail. Your teacher will then send you a link to the next lesson.

Placement tests

Online placement tests (German language only) for German, English, Italian, French, and Spanish can be found on the pages for those languages.

Information and counselling GGG Kurse, Head of School/Administration (2nd floor) Eisengasse 5, 4051 Basel, 061 261 80 63 Telephone and personal counselling, Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Language courses

Standard course:    The fee for the whole semester (17 lessons, once a week) is CHF 260.-

Intensive course:    The fee for the whole semester (34 lessons, twice a week) is CHF 520.-

Other courses

Memory training:     The fee for the whole semester (17 lessons, once a week) is CHF 420.-

Resilience training:  The fee for the whole semester (17 lessons, once a week) is CHF 420.-

Theses fees do not include teaching materials.

Course length varies with number of participants:

– 60 minutes: 6 - 7 participants
– 75 minutes: 8 - 9 participants
– 90 minutes: 10+ participants

The final lesson length is determined after the trial period in the 3rd week of courses and is then binding for the remaining 14 weeks of the semester.

Courses with less than 6 participants are possible by special arrangement with the school.

Please pay the full course fees within 30 days after receiving your paying-in slip.

Course books

Course books can be bought at any of the larger local bookshops. The books are not included in the course fees.

Applications for reductions in course fees

Unemployed persons with a valid RAV datasheet, those on grants,  au pairs, students, apprentices, middle school and exchange students may apply to the Administration in writing for a reduction in course fees. Please send applications to our Administration by Saturday, January 25, 2025.

GGG courses are offered at three different locations

GGG Kurszentrum, Wepf Building, Eisengasse 5, 1st & 2nd floors, 4051 Basel (entrance next to the shop). The Wepf building is near the Middle Rhine Bridge in Greater Basel.

Schifflände Tram or bus stop:

Bus N°s 34, 36, 38, 603, 604
Tram N°s 6, 8, 11, 14, 16, 17

De Wette school (DWS) and Gymnasium Kirschgarten (GKG)

Entrance at De Wette-Strasse 7, 4051 Basel.

The De Wette School is easy to get to from the Swiss Railway Station and Aeschenplatz.

Tram stops:

Kirschgarten (Tram N° 2)
Swiss Railway Station (Tram N°s 1, 2, 8, 10, 11)
Aeschenplatz (Tram N°s 3, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)

Online courses

The courses take place over the internet, using software such as Zoom.

These guiding principles are directed at teaching staff, course participants and all those interested in GGG Courses.

Our foundations

To support culture and integration in our city and region, GGG Courses have provided further education opportunities outside state schools for over 200 years. Integration and wellbeing in any culture depend on good language skills, as speaking and understanding languages ease personal contact in everyday life, aid studies and professional development, give confidence in dealing with authorities, and are a boon when travelling.

What we offer

The "somewhat different language courses of the GGG" are very inexpensive and avoid any kind of exam pressure. People can find their best course and level by trying different courses at the beginning of the semester. GGG Courses offer high quality language courses for speakers of German and other languages from beginner (A1) to high-level conversation (C2) in day and evening courses. The courses we offer range from German as a foreign language to Basel dialect to a host of modern and ancient languages. We are always ready to expand as needed for people, institutions and companies.

Our customers

Our customers are those of any age interested in languages, who do not or no longer need a diploma but who are interested in improving, refreshing, expanding, and deepening their language skills. This includes institutions and companies wishing to give their employees further training in languages.

Our teaching staff

Our teaching staff are themselves responsible for shaping their courses and guarantee a successful outcome for course participants. The course structure allows them to cater for individual needs within the framework of the learning objectives for each level. Concerted and continuous quality management guarantees the sustainable development of our courses. We provide our teaching staff with optimal working conditions and support them in their professional development.

Our learning environment

Challenging but manageable objectives in all GGG language courses stimulate learning and ethos with interactive learning in small to medium-sized groups. Proof of success lies in the sustainable linguistic achievements of participants and their delight in furthering their language abilities in a congenial learning environment, in many cases over a great number of years.

Our pricing policy

We are a non-profit institution of the GGG, and so we are able to provide language courses at particularly low prices. In keeping with the social orientation of the GGG, we respond positively to requests from those whose finances are insufficient to cover the course fees entirely; this benefits apprentices, au pairs, exchange students and those on placements.

Our future

We shall continue to provide an enriching environment with modern, high quality language courses for interested and committed learners and teachers.