Last Friday, the Three-Week Courses in Icelandic came to an end. Both three week courses, the one held at Núpur for exchange students and the open course in Ísafjörður were very successful. The Icelandic courses at the University Centre are not quite over yet since today a one week intensive course began with 15 students from different countries.

As the students of the Three-Week courses were on their way to Reykjavík to enjoy Culture Night or to catch a flight home, new students were already arriving in Ísafjörður. „We're really happy with how the Three-Week Courses turned out this year and got some very good feedback from the students, so I hope the next course is going to be a success, too", says Heiðrún Tryggvadóttir, Project Manager and teacher for the course „Icelandic in One Week".

About half of the students in the Icelandic course are here to take part in the master's program in Coastal and Marine Management this winter, the other half are studying Icelandic for various other reasons. Philipp Ewers for example, a brewer from Düsseldorf in Germany, first came to Iceland for a vacation. He instantly fell in love with the country and the language and decided to look for work here. „Everything went really fast, I applied in June, got the job a few weeks later and now I'm here, trying to learn some Icelandic before I start working at the brewery Mjöður in Stykkishólmur."

The one week course emphasizes communication skills and practical phrases, so Philipp and the other students should be able to put their knowledge into use right away after this week.