Full Immersion Inside and Outside the Classroom
We have had the pleasure of teaching students from around the world. We believe the best way to learn a language is to be fully immersed in the culture both inside and outside the classroom. We achieve this by offering an extensive range of language courses and providing an exciting calendar of activities for students to explore their new city and practice their language skills.
Our Mission
To help create a world where communication, understanding, cooperation and respect exist between people of all countries and cultures.
Our Method
To provide language training utilizing the most effective teaching methodology and technology, and by integrating academic, cultural and social activities.
ILS-Zürich is an internationally recognized language school in the center of Zürich-Oerlikon. Our school supports people from every age group and background with the acquisition of foreign languages. We offer courses in German, French, English Spanish and Italian on all levels. We welcome students from every part of the world, who, thanks to our experienced teachers, progress quickly in their endeavors to learn the German language. As a licensed test center for telc exams and as an EduQua certified language school, we guarantee utmost quality when it comes to language learning.
Our core values include:
• providing individual support for individual needs
• a pleasant learning atmosphere
• personal contact during lessons
• the application of the learning in everyday life
• the quality of the lessons, private or in small groups
Would you like to learn the German language during a language stay and are look-ing for a versatile destination? Then you are exactly right in Switzerland! The small country offers not only an enormous cultural diversity and fascinating cities but also an imposing nature landscape in front of a uniquely beautiful mountain scenery. The overwhelming size of town and country life are close to each other - within a very short time you will travel from the city shopping mile to a small restaurant on the mountain peak. The multilingual country at the foot of the Alps is therefore not only about learning German, but also guarantees you an unforgettable travel experience. Make your language stay something special and collect unforgettable memories!
You can expect unforgettable moments in a cosmopolitan and warm-hearted area - welcome to Zürich!
Joining launched groups is always possible!
Located in a beautifully renovated 12th century Benedictine monastery in the centre of Engelberg, our summer camp provides students comfortable and modern twin or single bedrooms, spacious classrooms, a games area and plenty of space to hang out with friends
This mountain campus also has plenty of sports fields, both indoor and outdoor. Students will have access to a football field as well as volleyball, basketball and tennis courts. This alpine destination offers students a rich natural environment packed with modern facilities to ensure a fun and activity-dense summer camp language immersion experience.
At the Braunwald location, the school combines high-quality language instruction with the stunning natural backdrop of a car-free mountain village perched on a sunny terrace at 1,300 m above sea level. Braunwald’s scenic views of the Tödi range and its peaceful atmosphere make it an ideal setting for both study and outdoor exploration.
What makes friLingue unique:
Small class sizes: Language lessons (German and English at Braunwald) are taught in small groups — usually around six students — allowing personalised attention and active communication practice.
Experienced, engaging teachers: friLingue’s teaching team is motivated to make language learning fun and interactive, using games, role-play, multimedia and communicative activities to help students gain confidence.
International community: Students come from various countries, creating a lively multicultural environment that encourages language use both in and outside the classroom.
Immersive experience: Beyond lessons, the school integrates excursions, workshops and social activities into its programmes to enhance learning through real-world interaction.
Classes at friLingue Braunwald cover levels from beginner (A1) to advanced (C2), making the school suitable for a wide range of language abilities.
The school operates within the Adrenalin Backpacker Hostel, which serves as a social and residential hub, offering communal spaces, terraces, games areas and a relaxed atmosphere where students can study, unwind and connect.
friLingue places a strong emphasis on safety, language immersion, punctuality, and student wellbeing, ensuring that every participant enjoys a supportive and enriching experienc
Creative language summer camp with friLingue
Once again we invite you to participate in the summer edition of this camp, where immersion in languages passes through the prism of the practices of the arts, theatre, and video.
How does this camp, where language learning combines with the practice of the arts, theatre and video, work?
Take the time to exchange ideas, imagine and build an artistic project that organises the week’s schedule.
Help yourself to explore diverse cognitive fields (material culture, visual memory, mnemonic) to exercise curiosity and forge a culture of your own.
Imagination and creativity are not confined only to the classroom; they are open work languages through authentic materials and expressive and creative practices.
Navigate your way through the different stages of making a short film or staging a play.
Kick-start and develop a portfolio, know how to express your ideas in the target language to evolve an art project collectively.
There will also be a collaborative exhibition of the various productions (performances, films, paintings, photos etc.) from the week that will all be centred around the same theme.
We find that school education is based on a division into disciplines and often content that’s too theoretical is counterproductive for both learners and teachers. We believe that learning and remembering is about connecting, creating and making things work.
Associating practices of arts and languages allows us to connect knowledge and know-how, to make them resonate to feed a contextualised learning process.
Some examples:
We’ll make bound notebooks according to a procedure that’s explained and shown in the target language using different available materials, These notebooks will then serve as a basis for gathering linguistic knowledge acquired throughout the process.
We’ll also create an exhibition of paintings or silver prints inspired by a theme first studied in its linguistic aspect (themes such as "movement", "images", "monsters" etc.).
Those interested in video will make a short film of fiction that taps into the life of the camp, the funny moments and the specific situations. All this work (brainstorming, scriptwriting, dialogues, stage play, staging, editing) is obviously an opportunity to learn the language in action. The short film can then be used as a support for a multimedia language course rooted in practice. "Learning by doing" is our motto!
The language courses (English, French & German) and activities are transversal; they connect and answer each other. It is by multiplying the resonances within projects that are always based on the desires of students that we think to make them learn, to consolidate their learning and to teach them to understand.
