Institute of Intensive Language Learning (LSI)

The Landesspracheninstitut (LSI) is a further education institution that develops and runs intensive language courses based on scientific research. For over 50 years, we have been providing practice-oriented foreign language skills that enable our graduates to communicate actively and confidently in everyday life.

Whether Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian or Ukrainian - we build linguistic and cultural bridges and, with our specialisation in Eastern Europe, Asia and the Near and Middle East, we are a leading provider of language courses in adult education for language enthusiasts of all ages.

Since the institute was founded in 1973, more than 40,000 participants have successfully completed our courses - including numerous diplomats, journalists, business representatives and scientists, among them ESA astronauts, whose language training in Bochum is part of their preparation for missions on board the International Space Station ISS.

In 2007 it was affiliated to Ruhr-University of Bochum. Ruhr University in Bochum is one of the biggest universities in Germany. The LSI, which belongs to the university, has offered intensive Japanese language courses for more than 40 years.

Since 2007, as a part of the Ruhr University Bochum, we have been part of the academic and professional further education programme of one of the largest universities in Germany.

(Feb. 2024)