Learning Languages with the PDL Method

Its techniques and processes enable communication from the start in the language course and encourage free and spontaneous speaking in the foreign language.

The method offers a well-structured concept for beginners and advanced learners. You will be accompanied individually in your learning process. You develop the confidence to communicate freely and spontaneously in a relaxed atmosphere.

The exciting thing about the PDL method

With the PDL method you learn languages in the Encounter: the foreign language becomes a means of authentic communication with the other participants in the group.

This language learning method addresses people in their entirety: body, feeling and intellect. This approach helps to learn faster, to enjoy the language and to retain the language much better.

In the safe environment and protection of the group, you will receive important and valuable help in trying out the language uninhibitedly, always following your own personal pace.

Your language course will never be boring

The variety of exercises makes the course both exciting and relaxed and ensures variety.

The situations, texts or images we work with are designed to appeal to you. The focus is on interaction and communication. You will be supported individually.

In a PDL course you can express your thoughts and contribute your own content. The PDL trainers do not follow a textbook, they follow the participants! The courses are therefore tailor-made.

Immerse yourself in this personal, direct and lively way of language learning!

More impressions from courses

You experience language instead of mainly learning it. In the course, you have the opportunity to express your own thoughts in the foreign language right from the start.

Through targeted exercises for the rhythm and melody of the language, you will learn pronunciation faster and more effectively; the techniques include the verbotonal method. You will develop valuable skills and attitudes that will make it easier for you to acquire the foreign language: creativity, spontaneity, intuition, observation, active listening, concentration and calm. The acquired spontaneity can also be helpful in other contexts.

The PDL is used for group and individual lessons in a wide variety of contexts: in adult education, in the private and corporate sector, for children and young people, for integration and inclusion courses.

But it is also used successfully as preparation for exams in schools and for obtaining official language certificates. Last but not least, this language learning method is suitable for the targeted development of communicative skills, e.g. as preparation for job interviews or negotiations in the foreign language.

The PDL was developed in 1977 by Dr. Bernard and Marie Dufeu designed and has been continuously developed since then. The aim was to develop a pedagogical approach that is consistently participant and group-oriented. A method that specifically takes into account the linguistic needs of the participants and promotes free, spontaneous and free expression in the foreign language. Procedures from J. L. Moreno’s psychodrama and principles of dramaturgy adapted for language teaching are important foundations of the PDL.

You can find more detailed information about the method on the website of the founders Dr. Bernard and Marie Dufeu: www.psychodramaturgie.org