Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Mitte, Stuttgart

I have been studying German in different schools in the last years and IFA is definitely the best one I've found!!

Pro's:
+ friendly, young, dynamic environment.
+ great learning methods: in the lesson there is a bit of grammar, a bit of conversation, a bit of listening... in other words a byte of stuff.
+ actually I like the games that Rennie25 hates: they are made to keep you awake and to practice your pronounce.
+ great book: clear, concise and with a lot of nice pictures :-)

Con's:
- sometimes the classes are too big, up to 20 persons
- depending on the teacher that you get, the lessons could be awfully boring or quite interesting...but that's life!

I am not so impressed with ifa as aygul. I have never been to another language school in Stuttgart, but ifa is not a particularly motivating place. Teachers are often grumpy.

Technology is very low about 1980s..no language lab, not much in supporting audio material or that type of thing, i have never even seen a pc there. Teachers like to play childish games in class that kill time as well.

The school seems proud of the historic location, but actually it is a construction pit of renovation. It is rather noisy and unpleasant, but it is a short walk from u bahn, so that is a good.

I would give ifa a C grade. Nothing special. an intensive course is about 20 hours a week, any school should be able to teach something in that amount of time.

It’s really difficult to find in Stuttgart better place to learn German language than Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations): excellent teachers, flexible timetable, intensive, evening and weekend German courses from A1 (elementary level) to C1 (intermediate level)!
Strongly recommended!