Teaching German

[sashimani]

Hey joha,

Alos u can use the below site

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/dutch/

here u can see words with pictures in engish and dutch hope this will be more useful

[Joha]

sashimani,

Thank you so much for the link. It looks great, the issue is that I need sites with pronunciation because I could show my daughter the word, but not clue on how to pronunce it. I'm sure this will be a great tool for people that know some german and would like to teach it to their kids.

[Aguh]

hi,

http://www.itseasycds.walkwithjesus.eu/

at this site they sell CDs for learning to read in German (after Doman's method).  Actually I came to Brillkids throught that site. But I don't think they have the pronounciations you need. But maybe you can ask them ([email protected]) to make some one day.

Besides single words they also have phrases and sentences in their CDs and also the translation to English.

Hope this helps anyhow?

[sashimani]

Hi Joha,

the site also have an audio guide on how to pronounce the words.For Eg when u check the below link there is a tabular column which gives the list of words and there is a hyperlink for each word.Once you click on the word it just opens in Real player to spell the word.It works for me!!

http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang01.htm

Try once and let me know if you still have problem in that.
Check if u have real player installed else download the free version from www.brothersoft.com.
Reg
Sashi

[patience]

Hello Everyone,

I contacted Martina at the Website Aguh posted about and she said that they are currently working on adding audio clips to the slides, but it will be 4-6 more weeks before it is ready. She also said that she would contact me to let me know when they are complete so I will post here again when she does.

Take Care:)

[Maria Jose]

Hi:

Here is a very nice site with songs and their text: (very good pronunciation and melody)
 http://www.spiellieder.de/kinderlied-standards/kinderlied-standards.htm

Here a site with stories from the Grimm bothers just to hear:
http://www.vorleser.net/html/grimm.html

Good luck,

Maria Jose

[Anna Panna]

Thanks and karma to you,  Maria Hose, for the song website, it is usefull with all the texts available and the rythm of singing is quite slow so it is easy to follow the words.

[Joha]

Thanks to everybody for the great links! It is so helpful to have this kind of resources when you don't speak the language. 

We just started showing our daughter Muzzy in German. The graphics are not the best but we like the content menaing what they are teaching. We checked the program out from the library so we are going to try to renew it a couple of times take a break and borrow it again.

[Joha]

I found this website that may be a good tool to teach German and other languages. I just found it so I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to use it with my daughter.

http://www.livemocha.com

[momtomany]

From the library my little ones enjoy this series of VHS videos (I think it comes in 10 different languages)... Bilingual Baby - German (very Doman-friendly and they like it over and over again)

http://www.amazon.ca/Bilingual-Baby-German/dp/B00004XPNY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1246420709&sr=8-1


Also from the library, look on the back of the kids movies... a few of them have German language tracks... I find the newer the movie, the more likely it will have multiple language tracks.

Also in the library, we have a section that has foreign language books... there are often one or two children's books in that section... maybe you could find a German person to make a recording of the reading of the book (and 'Tinkerbell' could ring the bell to turn the page?), and you could photocopy the book (yes, I know, not strictly legal)... maybe even modifying your copy to include larger print size.  (At our library, this foreign collection is rotated with other libraries from time to time, so I would personally not make a recording without somehow having my own copy of the material!)

I have only just thought of this idea, because I was talking with my husband (1st language German!) about speaking in German to our children (the little ones in particular)... and I said that if he is putting in the effort, then I will support him by finding all the resources I can to support German language learning in our house.  (It is his 1st choice of foreign language to teach them... my 4th choice).  I said I would find German story books too.... but the thing is he very very rarely ever reads to them... bedtime stories is my department.... but I can't read or pronounce much German.... so then I came up with this idea.  Does it sound like a good one?  Books are important I think for developing vocabulary that you wouldn't normally use in everyday speech.... in speech we say "the stone made a splash in the water"... in a book we read "the pebble sent ripples across the shimmering lake".  I love books!

[Joha]

momtomany,

Thank you for sharing! That video is sold by Brainy Baby. They are selling the VHS tape for 99c and the DVD for $7.99 for whoever want to buy it. I'm thinking about it. I have toa dmit I hadn't thought about checking the library before buying it. The library in my town doesn't have any of this products, so my mom has to get her in her city for me. That is why I don't keep it in mind.

I got a little bit confused with your idea. What is your idea? 

[momtomany]

My idea to help the kids learn German.... (since I don't speak German and my native speaking German husband is not in the habit to read them bedtime stories)....

Take a children's German story book (or create one with larger words if your goal is to teach to read also), and make a recording of my husband reading the book in German.... making a pause or a little bell sound or something so we know when to turn the page.  Then, throughout the day or at bedtime, I can sit with the child(ren) and show them the book while we listen to Daddy reading the story to us.  We can all learn German at the same time.

Also, because my Dutch understanding is about 75% for everyday conversation, I find that when he speaks in German to me then I understand a lot of what he says too (Dutch and German are closely related languages).... so maybe it would be okay if the language between us gradually became German.  I'm not personally very motivated to learn German (like I posted, it's my 4th choice of foreign language... after Dutch, French, Spanish) but I want to support my husband's preference and it's a good opportunity for the kids that we haven't taken advantage of enough so far.  (When DH's parents were still alive, we visited just about every weekend, so at least the older 3 have been exposed to the sounds from an early age, especially the 15yo). 

[sweetbaby]

Dear All,
   Here i came across this website....want to share with u all...contains german songs,stories,games etc...

  http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/kids/?location_id=872
 
regards

[patience]

Here is another a link I found of some catchy german songs......

http://www.genkienglish.net/learntospeakgerman/index.htm

[Joha]

Here is another a link I found of some catchy german songs......

http://www.genkienglish.net/learntospeakgerman/index.htm

Nice site! You are right the songs are very catchy. I love that they have a flash presentation of the phrases while you play the demo.

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