Persian-speaking Driving schools

A German driving licence is not a purchase, it is a procedure that runs for months and passes through a driving school, an optician or a doctor, a first-aid course, a government office and a technical inspection body, in a fixed order, with a bill that arrives in pieces. This page lists driving schools where somebody speaks Persian. What this text is for is narrower: to make that sequence legible, and to show where the money leaves your pocket, before you pay a deposit to anyone.

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What this page holds, and what it cannot tell you

This category has no sub-categories. Every school sits under one heading, and the list will not tell you which of them also trains motorcycle classes or keeps an automatic car in the fleet. Those are questions for the school, and no filter here answers them for you.

Driving instruction is also not work that happens at a distance: theory is taught in a room, practical lessons happen in a car, on the streets you will be examined on later. A school being close to home or work is not a convenience, it is part of the training. Open your city from the list at the bottom of this page and start there.

The order things actually happen in

1. Registering with a school and signing the training contract. A base fee is usually charged here, and it contains no driving lessons at all.
2. The eyesight test and the first-aid course. The eye test is done at an optician or a doctor, the first-aid course usually takes a single day. Both produce a certificate you need for the next step.
3. The application to the licensing authority (Fahrerlaubnisbehörde, or Führerscheinstelle), with a photo, your ID and those two certificates. Processing can take weeks and permission to sit the exams comes from this office, so do not leave it.
4. Theory classes. The number of mandatory sessions is set in the regulations and depends on the licence class and on whether you already hold a licence. Ask the school for the figure that applies to you.
5. The theory exam, at the technical inspection body (TÜV or DEKRA), once the authority has cleared your file.
6. Practical lessons. There is no legal minimum for these: you keep going until your instructor says you are ready, and this is the line that decides what the licence finally costs.
7. The special drives, separate from the above and explained below.
8. The practical exam, with an official examiner who does not work for your school.

The special drives (Sonderfahrten), which no school invented

The special drives are a minimum set by law, not a package the school made up and not something you negotiate your way out of. There are three kinds: driving on the motorway, on overland roads, and at night, each with its own required number of teaching units, which varies by licence class.

Two things are worth knowing in advance. First, these hours sit on top of ordinary lessons and do not replace them, so however well you drive, you complete all of them. Second, a special drive is usually charged at a higher rate than a normal lesson, and because the count is fixed in advance, this block is a large and predictable part of the final bill. When you compare two schools, price this row separately.

Cost, which is the part nobody explains

There is no such thing as the price of a licence, which is why the number is so hard to pin down. What you pay is a stack:

• The school's base fee, which typically covers theory teaching and paperwork and includes no driving.
• Each driving lesson, charged individually.
• Each special drive, at its own rate.
• The theory and practical exam fees, which go to the technical inspection body and are separate from what the school charges for the car and the instructor on exam day.
• The licensing authority's own fee for issuing the licence.
• The first-aid course, the eye test and the theory book or practice app, none of which normally run through the school.

Ask for the school's full price list in writing, rate by rate. And do not expect a guaranteed total: it depends mostly on how many lessons you turn out to need, which neither your instructor nor you can know at the start. A confident round number is simplifying something that is not simple.

The language of the theory exam, stated carefully

The official theory test is not German-only: it is offered in a set of languages. But that set is not something to take on trust from a friend or an old forum post, and it has changed over time. Ask the school, or the testing body, for the current list before you register anywhere.

If your language is not on it, the exam is taken in German or in one of the languages offered, and this is precisely where a Persian-speaking instructor earns their place: the rule, the difference between two signs, the logic of right of way and what an examiner expects on the day can all be explained in Persian even when the exam paper is not. Learning in your own language and being examined in another are two separate things.

A foreign licence: exchange, or start again

If you already hold a licence from another country, there is no single yes or no. Whether it can be exchanged, whether you sit only one of the two exams, or whether you start from the beginning depends on the issuing country, and there are different categories of recognition. How long you have been resident here matters too.

Neither this page nor a driving school decides that. The licensing authority where you live looks at your file and answers it. Take your licence and your residence document there, get the answer for your case, and only then discuss training with a school. A certified translation is often part of it.

After you pass: the probationary period

A new licence comes with a probationary period, set longer for drivers licensed for the first time. During it, an offence carries consequences an experienced driver would not face: a mandatory further-training course, or the probation being extended. The exact length, which offences count and what follows are set by the licensing authority and the current regulations, not by your school.

Automatic or manual

Training and taking the exam only in an automatic can restrict what your licence lets you drive, meaning no manual gearbox. The rules here have changed and there are routes to lifting the restriction, but get the detail from the school rather than from hearsay: ask what applies today, and what will be recorded on your licence. If the car in your household is a manual, ask before you register, not after.

What to ask before you pay anything

• The full price list in writing: base fee, lesson rate, special drive rate, exam-day charge, every other line.
• How long a teaching unit is, and how many units a driving lesson counts as.
• How lessons get scheduled, how often a week you can realistically get one, and whether afternoons or weekends are available.
• The cancellation deadline, and what a late cancellation costs you.
• Which language the theory classes are taught in, and whether written material or a practice app exists in another.
• Whether an instructor speaks Persian, and more to the point, whether that same person will teach you, or whether the Persian stops at the front desk.
• What happens to money you have already paid if you switch schools or stop part way through.
• Which licence classes they train, and which cars they keep.
• YabInfy checks none of this, so ask for it yourself, and ask to see the document where it matters.

Choosing from this list, and what stays private

• Reviews here are written by people who trained at that school, and will tell you about an instructor's patience, punctuality, the state of the car and how the office treats you. No review can tell you that you will pass: that depends on your own practice, and on the day.
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