You can coach your child's soccer practice, but you're not allowed to play on the field with them.

You can help your child with their science project, but you can't help them present it.

You can take German lessons with your child, and you can have a blast speaking German together!

 

Over the past year, multiple parents have signed up to take German lessons with their children. And they have so much fun every week! If you'd like to really do something with your child, this is for you!

 

Here's how it happens:

Mom Barbara signs up for lessons for herself and her daughter Rachel, who's 10.

They share a German learning book that was written specifically for children learning to speak German as a Foreign Language, and they each have their own workbook.

Once a week, we meet in their online classroom for a lesson and Barbara and Rachel and I write on the shared whiteboard, speak together, and play German guessing games.

Throughout the rest of the week, Barbara and Rachel have vocabulary cards to work with and exercises to do for "homework." The "homework" is something like singing a song, unscrambling a word scramble, correcting a few misspelled words, or simple fill-in-the-blank exercises.

 

Don't leave home for German.

There's no driving, no extra scheduling to be done because you have the same lesson time every week, and no paperwork to get lost in a backpack.

 

You share the same knowledge of German as your child.

Because we slow down the pace to your child's learning pace, and you use the same book as your child, you and your child learn exactly the same words, verbs, sentences, and questions at exactly the same time. You speak German together starting in your very first lesson!

 

Learn at a pace that's manageable with a busy life.

If you have 1 hour per week for a lesson and 20 minutes 3 times a week to have fun speaking German with your child, playing vocabulary memory games, and writing numbers guessing quizzes for each other, you've got the time to learn German and make solid progress.

You make your "homework" work for you:  one mom and son who are currently learning German just put their textbook CD in the car and listen to it on the drive to and from school. Another set of parents simply practices simple conversations with their child over dinner.

You get to find the funnest ways to speak German with your child. Every week.

 

In bite-size bits.

Because we use a children's learning book, each chapter is short, it focuses on only 2 concepts, and each new chapter builds on the previous chapter. It's the ultimate in step-by-step learning.

The amount of vocabulary introduced in each chapter is also limited, so you'll have limited words to practice. This increases your speaking success, as it's a bite-size bit of German each week.

 

Have I mentioned this is not like school?

Here are 7 ways that German lessons are different:

1. We move at your learning pace.

2. "Homework" is more like "game night."

3. Tests are open-book.

4. Your child gets to speak a lot during lessons.

5. We utilize as much or as little technology as you would like.

6. You get to share in your child's learning process because you are in the same room, doing the same thing, at the same time.

7. Your child will probably correct you.

 

German empowers your child.

Learning to speak German is empowering for children. Because the materials we use are written for children and each chapter covers a narrow field of vocabulary, the children know exactly what they are doing. The expectations are crystal clear and this is a huge bonus for a child's confidence! And yes, children often correct their parents in lessons--because they know exactly what the correct answer is!

 

Homeschool / Public School / Private School / Adventure!

Whether you are a homeschool parent or your child attends public or private school, adding German lessons is adding adventure to your week! We can modify your lessons to incorporate your life:  taking a field trip to the zoo? We'll learn the animal names in German. Visiting a museum on the weekend? We'll learn about the German researcher mentioned at the museum before you go and you can report back on it the next week!

 

1 Household = $0 extra tuition

With you, your spouse/partner and your child in the same household, taking a lesson together, there is $0 extra tuition. There are still a few daytime slots available and two afternoon spots on Thursdays (as of 1/29/16). Check out the German lesson info page here.

 

Get all your questions answered!

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