Our literacy courses are designed for primary, secondary and functional illiterates as well as for second language learners. The modular structure of these courses, which take place three times a week, is sufficiently flexible to accommodate the different learning paces within the very heterogeneous target group. Through the four course levels Alpha 1 to Alpha 4, participants develop and expand their phonological awareness and build their knowledge from the sound-letter level through the word and sentence level to text comprehension. The development of oral language skills, especially pronunciation and idioms, plays just as important a role as reading and writing.