NatYoung17 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Hi! I'm looking for a good program to teach my kids German, before we go visit my Mom next year. So far I've only found programs for little kids that are too baby-ish for my kids, or ones geared towards Teens/Adults... I can help them with pronunciation, etc, but I'm having a hard time teaching them without some kind of program to follow. They both have Kindle's (Fire), so an app would also be an option. I would appreciate any ideas!! We've tried Muzzy before, but I'm not too fond of it. Thanks so much!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 My boys have tried these listed from easiest to use to hardest to use outside a classroom Planetino WIR. Grundkurs Deutsch für junge Das Neue Deutschmobil Now older is using Ideen Deutsch für Jugendliche 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutingmom Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 There is one elementary program here... http://www.knowitall.org/instantreplay/content/LanguageIndex.cfm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Planetino would be ideal for these ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica_in_Switzerland Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 My boys have tried these listed from easiest to use to hardest to use outside a classroom Planetino WIR. Grundkurs Deutsch für junge Das Neue Deutschmobil Now older is using Ideen Deutsch für Jugendliche Planetino would be ideal for these ages. Thread stealing... Can you tell me how you liked Planetino, if you did all three levels, and if so, what you did next? Also, 3 levels = 3 semesters, years, or... ? This program looks really meaty, I see it gets kids up to A1 level. Most children's German seems to just spend a whole lot of time learning a whole lot of... not much. Also, I see there are a number of components. Do I need all of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Can you tell me how you liked Planetino, if you did all three levels, and if so, what you did next? My younger boy's German class use the textbook which has CD and workbook. The saturday class paced it at a level a year/two semesters. He also have a grammar book for extra grammar practice as his teacher thinks that grammar is insufficient. The school pick the curriculum but I do find it easy enough to help him even with my rusty German without buying the teacher's guide. ETA: It is possible to finish a level a semester if you are doing daily. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Thread stealing... Can you tell me how you liked Planetino, if you did all three levels, and if so, what you did next? Also, 3 levels = 3 semesters, years, or... ? This program looks really meaty, I see it gets kids up to A1 level. Most children's German seems to just spend a whole lot of time learning a whole lot of... not much. Also, I see there are a number of components. Do I need all of them? Sorry, I missed your reaction. I bought Planetino when dd was 10 and German her 5th language. So the program wasn't a good fit as in going to slow and being too easy It isn't a bad program, but it didn't fit here at the time. We used the textbook, workbook and audio CD In that time. Right now we use CIDEB (blackkat) readers / Children books in German, Grammatik - Ganz Klar. In secondary school it is common to reach A1 after 1 year, A2 after an additional year, B1 after an additional 1-2 years. For Elementary level schools expect a lower pace. This for the 'German as Foreign Language' track, the German speaking part of Belgium uses German schoolbooks. HTH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica_in_Switzerland Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Thank you both! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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