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8 Exemplary German Worksheets to Use as Teaching Materials

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It’s 2019, and you are teaching German. What could be easier than making your own worksheet at home?

Start up the laptop, spend an hour with Word, and print the result—voilà. Or you even use a program or …

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5 Things You Must Know About Teaching German Alphabet Pronunciation

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Have you ever heard a German speaker struggling with “ze” (/th/)?

Or vith voicing ze vords pet and pat, short and shot, coat and caught?

Unfortunately, the other way around is not much better.

From Eichhörnchen to …

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4 Tried-and-True Recipes for Teaching German to Adults

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Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

One of my best friends and former colleagues was born in Novosibirsk, over 5,700 kilometers away from my hometown and on a different continent completely. His family moved to Germany during his …

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Bringing Language to Life: German Teaching Ideas Using All 5 Senses

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Quick! Close your eyes and remember the last place you’ve been.

Have it? Great!

So, what came up? Was it a wall of text? Maybe a person speaking in the distance, recounting the events? Or a mere series of images?…

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Fascinate Your Students with Exciting Lessons on German Culture and Tradition

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“Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.”

Mark Twain wrote a lot about the trials and tribulations of learning the German language.

And of course, he is …

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Why You Should Be Teaching Accents in German

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As Mark Twain famously put it, “A gifted person ought to learn English in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.”

Teaching German can be just as challenging as learning it.

The grammar, the long …

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7 German Classroom Games That Make Learning Fun

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Have you ever heard of classroom ants?

They live under your students’ seats and only come out when your students sit still for too long.

They crawl all over learners and make them really restless.

Sounds awful? It is. But …

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