Institutes and Schools in North America

Goethe Institute
The Goethe Institute is renowned for its German language programs. Internationally-recognized courses at all levels are taught at the six Institutes in the US: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC.

German Language Opportunities Website
The American Association of Teachers of German presents this database of 10,144 German programs of all types

German Language School Conference
The national organization for private German language schools in the United States

Language Schools Guide
Use the detailed search to find German courses at language schools in the US or Canada

More German Language Schools
Another listing of German language schools from cazoo.org

Language Program at the Deutsches Haus at NYU
Learn German in New York City's Greenwich Village

German Language Schools in Canada
Download the PDF from the German Embassy in Ottawa



Summer schools
American colleges and universities have been offering summer German programs for decades. They offer both language courses and continuing education for teachers of German in a total immersion environment. The summer schools and camps below are supported by the Goethe Institute in the US.

• Middlebury College Summer Language School
  Middlebury College, Vermont


• Concordia Language Villages
  Moorhead, Minnesota


• Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik
  University of Rhode Island


• Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik
  Portland State University, Oregon


• German Language Camp
  Millersville University, Pennsylvania


• Sommer in Sewanee
  The University of the South, Tennessee


• German Summer School
  Taos, New Mexico

• Learning German by Radio, TV and Distance Learning


• Langage Learning in Tandem via Email


• Online language courses