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What is the right age to learn German?
The best age to start learning German or any other second language is around the age of 3-4. This is approximately the time when children learn pronunciation and start developing important vocabulary and communication skills in their native language. Since still at very young age, children absorb German in the same natural way they do their mother tongue.
The best age to start learning German or any other second language is around the age of 3-4. This is approximately the time when children learn pronunciation and start developing important vocabulary and communication skills in their native language. Since still at very young age, children absorb German in the same natural way they do their mother tongue.
Should my child learn German or French?
If you live in Europe, especially continental Europe, or want to move there, German might be the better choice as more than 100 million people in Europe speak German as their native language. Besides that, if you want to spare your child of having to learn complex German grammar later in life, let it learn German early enough so that it can absorb grammar naturally while growing up and learning to speak. However, your preferences might be totally different if you were planning to spend most of your life in Africa, North America or some other parts of the world where knowledge of French is more practical.
If you live in Europe, especially continental Europe, or want to move there, German might be the better choice as more than 100 million people in Europe speak German as their native language. Besides that, if you want to spare your child of having to learn complex German grammar later in life, let it learn German early enough so that it can absorb grammar naturally while growing up and learning to speak. However, your preferences might be totally different if you were planning to spend most of your life in Africa, North America or some other parts of the world where knowledge of French is more practical.
How can I help my child learn German?
Small children acquire a foreign language the same way they learn their mother tongue through engaging games, cartoons, stories, songs and while playing with other kids. Therefore, find your kid a German kindergarten or a German-speaking baby sitter and enable it to play German games and apps, watch German TV, videos, cartoons, listen to German music and let somebody (yourself or a babysitter) read your kid the German children’s books. This way your child will absorb the German language absolutely naturally even though living in a non-German speaking country.
Can a child learn German just by watching German cartoons?Small children acquire a foreign language the same way they learn their mother tongue through engaging games, cartoons, stories, songs and while playing with other kids. Therefore, find your kid a German kindergarten or a German-speaking baby sitter and enable it to play German games and apps, watch German TV, videos, cartoons, listen to German music and let somebody (yourself or a babysitter) read your kid the German children’s books. This way your child will absorb the German language absolutely naturally even though living in a non-German speaking country.
Watching German-language cartoons and children’s TV programs from an early age can help kids acquire German vocabulary and even pick up correct pronunciation and intonation in a natural way. However, watching cartoons and children’s TV programs alone is not enough to make your child fluent in German. Oral communication with German native speakers is necessary to achieve fluency.
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