German with German-Speaking Kids Living Abroad: Resources List

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Institutions / organisations international, Australia and New Zealand

Insitutions / organisations Description webpage The Central Agency for German Schools Abroad supports over 1,200 schools worldwide, including 140 German schools www.bva.bund.de/DE/ Zentralstelle für das abroad and institutions where the German Language Organisation/Abt Auslandschulwesen (ZfA) Certificate (DSD) can be ac•quired, the ZfA provides eilungen/Abteilung_ZfA/Die Deutschland personnel, financial and pedagogical assistance ZfA/node.html Specialist counselling and assistance for German schools and institutions in Australia offering the German Language Certificate DSD 1 + 2, 8 Australian schools are currently offering the DSD (marked with an * on the list). The PASCH Initiative stands for 'Schulen: Partner der www.auslandsschulwesen.de Zukunft' and offers a global map showing German schools Sydney Zfa Australia abroad and schools offering German classes and DSD PASCH Initiative diplomas. http://weltkarte.pasch-net.de OSA represents Swiss expatriates' interests in Switzerland, informs Swiss living abroad and is recognised by authorities Organisation of the Swiss as the representative organ; Information services on legal, www.aso.ch Abroad ASO social security insurance and training / education questions www.swisscommunity.org

Educationsuisse promotes the presence of Switzerland abroad, facilitates access to schools and professional training abroad and/or in Switzerland, is the central point Educationsuisse in the global network of the 17 Swiss schools abroad www.educationsuisse.ch

The Federation of Austrians Abroad AÖWB is an umbrella organisation representing the interests of and acting as a World Federation of Austrians service organisation for associations of Austrians established Abroad, Auslandsösterreicher- abroad, Austrians.org is a community platform and network www.bmeia.gv.at/en/travel- Weltbund (AÖWB) for Austrians, there are 8 Austrian schools abroad stay/living-abroad

The Ministery for Education BMBF informs about the www.bmbf.gv.at/schulen/ Austrian Ministry for education system in Austria and the 8 Austrian schools schulen/ausland/oesterr_ Education abroad auslandsschulen.html This directory of all German Kindgarten abroad lists German speaking and bilingual preschool offers on the country or Verzeichnis Deutscher city index. Preschool registration service and vacancies https://deutscherkindergarten.o Kindergärten im Ausland listings. rg The German Reading Foundation aims to promote the joy of reading and foster reading competence, in children and Stiftung Lesen young people. Services include age or topic related search Foundation Reading for book recommendations and useful links. www.stiftunglesen.de

The German correspondence school/course for the primary level aligned with the German primary school curriulum, option to choose only the German language contents up to year 6 or the complete version for German, Maths, general Deutsche Fernschule science (Sachunterricht), English, Art up to year 4 www.deutsche-fernschule.de

Testing / language levels Description webpage The DSD is an initiative of the German authorities for the improvement of the knowledge of the German language in schools worldwide, since 1973 the exams are accessible for high school students at accredited schools abroad, it Deutsches Sprachdiplom DSD finishes with the certification on language competencies on (German language certificate level A2/B1 or B2/C1 of the Common European Framework www.kmk.org/bildung- of the Education Ministers of Reference for Languages, 8 schools offer the DS in schule/auslandsschulwesen/deut Conference) Australia sches-sprachdiplom.html 1) DaF (German as a foreign language, Deutsch als Fremdsprache) mothertongue is not German 2) DaZ (German as a second language, Deutsch als Zweitsprache) leaners with a basic understanding 3) LOTE (Languages other than English) What is DaF and DaZ? 4) CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) people who What means LOTE? have a diverse cultural background or whose first language What means CALD? is not English The European language levels A1 - C2 self assessment grid comes in different languages, the Common European https://europass.cedefop. Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is the europa.eu/en/resources/ international standard for describing language ability, it is european-language- Language levels A1 - C2 used around the world to describe learners' language skills levels-cefr

Organisations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland offer a range of services, downloads and links regarding DaZ www.akdaf.ch, www.oedaf.at Organisations DaF/DaZ (German as a second language) www.fadaf.de Highschool learners can get an individual web-based assessment of their competencies in German (Lernende > Beispielaufgaben year 8/9) and go through examples, this Stellwerk-check.ch self-assessment tool can be interesting for teachers www.stellwerk-check.ch

Schools / Institutes / Organisations Australia Description webpage Learn German at the Goethe Institute with tailored extensive, or intensive courses on-site or online, courses for teenagers, small group classes, private tuition, company courses. Mainly from secondary level upwards, learning Sydney, Melbourne Goethe Institute apps for teenagers, self-assessments, material to download. www.goethe.de/australia

The German School Melbourne is a German English bilingual school located in North Fitzroy. The children grow up learning two languages at the same time. The school caters German School Melbourne * for families of German and/or English language backgrounds www.dsm.org.au/en/ Long day bilingual German - English child care centres with a strong focus on immersive bilingual early learning, for Sydney, Melbourne Froebel child care children from 0 to 6 years of age www.froebel.com.au

The Brisbane German Language School offers engaging German classes for children and adults at all levels of Brisbane Brisbane German competency, for both native and non-native learners of www.brisbane-german-language- Language School * German school.org.au

German Classes Brisbane is a family run teaching service, all DerDieDas teachers are certified German Teachers and are native Brisbane German Classes Brisbane speakers or equivalent www.derdiedas.com.au The School is a community school operating in Adelaide and teaches German language and culture to students of The School for the German German-speaking background and of other backgrounds, on Adelaide Language * a part-time basis on Saturday mornings. http://germanschool.org.au The Languages Centre offers German classes for different ages and provides after-school language classes for primary Darwin and middle school students, language classes include www.darwinlanguagescentre.co Darwin Languages Centre Junior, Senior, Continuers and Advanced. m/after-school_classes.html Courses from secondary level upwards given by a team of Perth German Language Classes highly qualified teachers and native speakers trained in www.german-language- Perth Germany classes.com.au

The Goethe Society offers a range of language classes for Perth both children and adults as well as internationally http://goethesocietywa.webs.co Goethe Society Perth * recognised exams and a rich calendar of cultural events. m/ Geckos is a German language community Geckos Melboure school operating on Saturdays from 9 - 12pm, Community Melbourne German Community School schools are not-for-profit, after-hours language schools www.geckos.org.au German language classes for children after school are offered at the Bayswater and Bentleigh campus, the Melbourne German Language School teachers are native speakers of German, participation in www.templesociety.org.au/ger Temple Society Australia cultural activities ma-school.html Spielwelt operates a German language Playschool, Playgroups and Scout Group in Canberra, Spielwelt also Spielwelt Canberra have a great children's library of German books, CDs, DVDs Canberra German parents association and games www.spielwelt.org.au The ACT Bilingual Education Alliance (ACTBEA) supports bilingualism in the Canberra region and promotes family- ACT Bilingual based Canberra Education Alliance bilingualism as well as formal bilingual education programs http://actbilingual.weebly.com The Australian Federation of Ethnic Schools Associations is an umbrella body designed to unite the ethnic schools of Australia, under 'find a school' a NSW and VIC community Community Languages schools finder is located, news about bilingualism (snippets www.communitylanguagesaustra Australia for bilingual families) lia.org.au

Die Brücke 'the bridge' is the umbrella organisation for German speaking Clubs and organisations in Australia and check members/Mitglieder Die Brücke New Zealand www.bruecke.com.au

Free German books for children and adults with www.librarycatalogue.act.gov.a ACT public library Canberra membership, you can order books online, books can be u 'Das Zentrum' In Civic collected from the reserved shelving www.daszentrum.org.au www.slv.vic.gov.au, These state libraries offer a range of multicultural childrens www.linc.tas.gov.au, State libraries VIC, SA, TA, books for loan in German , contact librarians at local www.libraries.sa.gov.au, WA libraries about the procedures http://slwa.wa.gov.au

Community schools (ethnic schools)are language schools, www.sa.gov.au/topics/ SA Community language the website offers a list of all ethnic schools in SA showing education-skills-and-learning/ Government of SA the languages taught with contacts schools/choosing-a-school

Association of German The Webpage informs on where in Victoria German can be www.agtv.vic.edu.au > why teachers of learnd and lists options for early years, at school, out of German > where to learn Victoria regular school hours and for adults German

Alle Munchkins The Association offers German-speaking playgoups, www.allemunchkins.com.au Melbourne Kindergarten groups and school groups up to year 6 Melbourne Playgroup Australia offers information and support to playgroups. Be a part of playgroup and find a playgroup in your language near you. Register your playgroup to be https://playgroupaustralia.org.a Playgroups Australia found. u/ The School caters for children from pre-school to secondary level attending the school on Saturdays during the normal German Saturday School school term.The school caters for both students with https://germansaturdayschool.w Melbourne * German language background and those without. ordpress.com/

Institutions / organisations Sydney and NSW Description webpage GISS offers a multilingual education for students from German International School Preschool to Year 12, finishing with the International Terrey Hills, Sydney Sydney * Baccalaureate Diplome IB, playgroup offered at the school www.germanschoolsydney.com Catering to school aged children from primary to high school, the German Saturday School is all about absorbing German Saturday School German language from our German native speaker teachers, www.germansaturdayschool Sydney * various locations sydney.org.au/

Various groups and locations in Sydney found on playgroups Google search for German, Australia or Facebook, Austrian and Swiss clubs German Playgroups Swiss-German playgroup in Sydney www.swissplaygroup.com German classes for kids from preschool to year 12, the school is certified to offer the 'Deutsches Sprachdiplom' DSD Croydon, Sydney Deutschstunde * exam www.deutschstunde.com.au Free multicultural language book service for NSW residents: collection includes: picture books, nursery rhymes, bilingual books for children and adult resources; a request for free www.sl.nsw.gov.au/services/mu resources in German can be placed at any local public lticultural/multicultural_ser State Library NSW library, [email protected] vices_NSW_residents.html ‘The Small German School’ is a Community Language Die Kleine Deutsche Schule School and teaches children the German language, courses http://diekleinedeutscheschule. Newcastle offered after school at the Hamilton Public School blogspot.com.au/ The website offers a German School finder and information on how to start a course, classes are outside normal school NSW Community Language hours for a small fee, usually at local government schools, Schools courses are open to any school-aged student attending a www.dec.nsw.gov.au/what-we- Department of Education NSW government, Catholic or independent school. offer/community-programs The club meets once a month at a park or home for afternoon tea, to practice German and enjoy national Facebook group Swiss-Austrian German Club celebrations and events together. Contact: Orange Swiss-Austrian-German Orange NSW [email protected] Group

Schools / Institutions New Zealand Description webpage The Goethe Institute NZ has its office in Wellington. Language Courses run in both Auckland and Wellington, while the cultural programmes and support for the teaching Goethe Insitute and learning of German is New Zealand wide. www.goethe.de/ins/nz Non-profit, non-political organisation supported by the Goethe-Institut, organising cultural and language events Goethe Society Auckland and supporting German studies www.aucklandgoethesociety.org Not for profit organisation promoting the deepening of contacts between New Zealanders with an interest in Goethe Society Wellington German and people in the German-speaking world www.welly-goethe.org.nz Not for profit organisation bringing together local German speaking people, events aim to encourage native and non- https://waikatogoethesociety.w Goethe Society Waikato native speakers to come together and celebrate German ordpress.com

GANZ German in Aotearoa This website tells you how and where in New Zealand you New Zealand can connect with German and Germany https://ganz.ac.nz German as foreign language courses from 2 - 12y, Before or after-school German for Kids Club, German lessons for https://lcfclubs.co.nz Fun Languages preschool kids, German for Kids Holiday Programs various locations

Deutsche Spielgruppe https://deutschespielgruppe.wo Auckland Grey Lynn Kids Playgroup rdpress.com Deutsche Spielgruppe http://germanplaygroup.gringer Wellington For preschool aged kids .org www.rappelkiste.co.nz Rappelkiste For preschool aged kids Wellington For kids with a german speaking background. We meet once Deutsche Sprachschule a week to continue building cultural awareness and Wellington friendships as well as learning to read and write in german. www.dswellington.org Bilingual kids Auckland Creative language tuition for all ages www.bilingualkids.co.nz

We offer German-speaking school-aged children the German School Wellington, opportunity to further their language skills and to learn to www.germanschoolwellington.or Newtown read and write in German. g.nz

Paper, audio - visual resources Books Description webpage "Conni" yellow edition for school starters, "Lesemaus" series for early readers (a few as E-books available), apps for Carlsen Verlag (publisher) reading and maths www.carlsen.de The learning to read series "Leselöwen" offers books for 4 reading stages: 1. Bildermaus (with images), 2. Ich für dich, du für mich (read together), 3. Lesetiger (first read alone), Loewe Verlag (publisher) 4. Lesepiraten (easy reader to read alone) www.leseloewen.de

Oetinger Verlag (publisher) Learning to read series "Büchersterne" www.lunaleseprofi.de Ravensburger Buchverlag The beginning readers series "Leseraben" offers 3 early (publisher) reading levels www.ravensburger.de „Bilderwörterbücher“ picture dictionaries for young children to learn German, series “Spielerisch Deutsch lernen” offers books for pre-school and primary, bilingual children’s books from “Edition bi:libri” exist in several www.hueber.de Hueber Verlag (publisher) languages – in combination with German. https://shop.hueber.de

"Werkstatt Deutsch als Zweitsprache" (course material DaZ), workbooks with solutions and assessments, can be started Schroedel Verlag (publisher) when learning the alphabet, for elementary school www.schroedel.de

Diesterweg Verlag (publisher) Mainly sources for German in primary school (Grundschule) www.diesterweg.de

Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss Learn how to read, audio books, apps www.drache-kokosnuss.de

Bibi Blocksberg Audio books, videos, games www.bibiblocksberg.de

The Alphabet Garden German bilingual support agency, selling German books, USA Music, educational resources and DVD's for kids www.alphabet-garten.com Educational resources for DaF and DaZ, Deutsch als www.klett- Zweitprache for Grundschule (primary level), Magazine sprachen.de/schule/deutsch-als- Klett Verlag (publisher) 'DaZugehören' mainly for schools zweitsprache The series ‘DUDEN Kinderbuch’ offers books for early childhood, preschool age and school age. The year 1 and 2 www.fischerverlage.de/verlage/ Fischer Verlag (publisher) early readers series ‘Leseprofis’ are tailored to girls and fischer_duden_kinderbuch DUDEN Kinderbuch boys interests. http://duden-leseprofi.de LolliPop: German learning to read teaching materials for differenciated use across different age groups usefule for Cornelsen Verlag (publisher) DaZ students. Student and exercise books are based on a Lollipop continuous storyline. www.cornelsen.de/lollipop “Lesestart – 3 Milestones for Reading” is a national initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education & Research and the German Foundation “Stiftung Lesen” for Lesestart - 3 Meilensteine für more educational equality right from the start. Selection of das Lesen learning to read apps. www.lesestart.de This online rental service, provides easy access to children's books in German in the US. The books have been carefully KinderBooks selected so that children can expand their German skills, USA learn about the world, while having fun reading together. www.kinderbooks.nyc

Learning systems audio - visual resources Description webpage Free audiobooks from various providers, "KIDS" website with Vorleser audio books lots of ideas (http://kids.t-online.de) www.vorleser.net Free audiobooks for children to downlaod or listen online, Ohrka with top 10 list, categories for ages www.ohrka.de German video series: Sendung mit der Maus, Barbapapa, Caillou, kleiner roter Traktor, Bob der Baumeister, Bibi Blocksberg, Bibi und Tina, Wiki und die starken Maenner, Lauras Stern, Meine Freundin Conni, die Hexe Lilli, Gummibärenbande, Yakari, die Oktonauten, Robin Hood Schlitzohr von Sherwood, Lars der kleine Eisbaer, Heidi, Youtube Flipper, Lassie, Ritter Trenk wwww.youtube.com

A simple learning system with built-in learning controls, for children aged from 2 - 13, different versions for younger and older children, available topics range from Maths to Luek learning system reading, history, learning foreign languages and science www.luek.de

The learning system enables independent learning with direct learning control, comes in thre age-appropriate Logico learning system formats: Logico primo / piccolo / maximo, starting age 3-4 www.finken.de/logico Schubi is a learning media publisher with games and other learning systems for DaZ like; Schubitrix Domino's (also as an app), Schubicards, Fit in Deutsch learning games and Schubi learning systems basic vocabulary www.schubi.com Schoener Fernsehen' and Get access to German speaking TV channels through http://schoener-fernsehen.com German online TV recorder download services or online live stream www.onlinetvrecorder.com Deutsche Welle (DW) is Germany’s international broadcaster, listen to slowly spoken German news, watch German live TV news and get podcasts, suitable for older www.dw.com/de/deutsch- Deutsche Welle children and teenagers lernen/s-2055 World children's media network, German radio to livestream RadioJojo for kids from 3 to 13, the digital radio offers programs for different age groups and interest www.radijojo.org

Kinderradio Laut FM Livestream radio for kids with popular songs, app available under radio.net (Kinderradio) http://laut.fm/kinderradio Webradio for kids to listen online and webchannels, audio Radio Teddy recordings to listen later http://radioteddy.de ZDFtivi is an online children's TV channel and media library featuring many popular shows like: "logo - news for kids" ZDF Kindersendungen tailored to a young audience (also with English subtitles) or children's TV "pur+" a discovery program www.tivi.de

The German children's TV channel offers videos for specific KIKA TV channel age groups: from 3 years, 6 years and 10 years of age www.kika.de/videos/index.html The German TV channel WDR has a specific "Die Sendung mit der Maus" page with films, songs and stories suitable Die Sendung mit der Maus from preschool age and the "Sachgeschichten", explaining www.wdrmaus.de/sachgeschicht Sachgeschichten how things work in a child friendly way en/filme.php5 Neuneinhalb (nine and a half) is a news report program covering current events and hot topics specially designed Neuneinhalb - deine Reporter for young people from about the age of 9 by the German TV www1.wdr.de/kinder/tv/neunei WDR TV channel channel ‘Das Erste’ WDR. nhalb/sendungen Youtube channel: The wide range of lovingly designed films on popular German children songs have animated subtitles to help children sing along. Ideal for younger children and www.youtube.com/user/SingKin Sing mit mir - Kinderlieder and those learning to read. derlieder Es war einmal der Mensch (once upon a time - there was man) are thematic animated history lessons geared toward Es war einmal der Mensch children and Es war einmal das Leben (once upon a time – www.youtube.com > es war Es war einmal das Leben life) are animated lessons about the human body. einmal der Mensch

22 favourite fairy tales from over the world have been adapted for children and animated into short films. www.dw.com Deutsche Welle DW - Märchen Deutsche Welle is Germany's public international search for 'Noch mehr Märchen aus aller Welt broadcaster available in 30 languages. aus aller Welt' posted 2011 The regular German thematic podcasts inform parents on www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/ children’s books and music ideas.SBS radio informs german/de/article/2016/12/28/ Australians from non-English-speaking backgrounds in 74 kinder-bucher- SBS German Radio languages. All the podcasts with presented materials are musik?language=de children's books podcasts listed on the ‘Abenteuer-Lesen” Blog. https://abenteuer-lesen.com

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Schlaukopf Online exercises from Kindergarten to higher primary level www.schlaukopf.de Onilo offers animated picture books 'Boardstories' suitable for primary school, they are digitalised children's picture books and enable a shared reading experience, students immerse themselves in the boardstory and the whole group Onilo can read together www.onilo.de The library makes children's books available online for free, good range of German picture books and other books for age range 3 to 13, as families move around more often International Childrens books are often left behind and it is difficult to find Library children's books in their language www.childrenslibrary.org Online learning activities to learn vocabulary and verbs and test with games and audio activities, aimed at lower- Digital dialects intermediate levels of German www.digitaldialects.com

Lesekurs Online Program to learn German (as a foreign language DaF) www.lesekurs.com Lingo is a multimedia internet portal with a magazine for children from 6 - 14, kids can find German interactive Lingo games, texts to read and listen to and exercices www.lingonetz.de Program to promote reading and comprehension with quiz questions to be answered online, based on children's and books for young people, for grades 1 -10, available as an Antolin (Schroedel publishing) app www.antolin.de

A German-speaking search enginge for kids, suitable for Blinde-Kuh children aged 6 to 14, co-sponsored by German authorities www.blinde-kuh.de

Mulitdingsda learning Learning software for children from 5 upwards to learn software essential basis vocabulary grouped in 40 subjects, built like (Lehrmittelverlag Kanton a flash card system and offers 14 instruction languages, teaching materials Switzerland Zuerich) available as an app www.lehrmittelverlag-zuerich.ch German educational television programs (Schulfernsehen: SWR, WDR) for DaZ, multimedia package with interactive German learning material and games around two cuddly www.planet- characters, 10 films available, the learning games can be schule.de/wissenspool/deutsch- Planet School played online under 'learning German with Mumbro & Zinell' als-zweitsprache/inhalt.html Besondere Kinderapps Webpage listing German learning apps for children www.besonderekinderapps.de Webpage listing best apps for children with reviews and Beste Kinderapps categories http://bestekinderapps.de/

Languages online Free German as a foreign language resources for language www.education.vic.gov.au Victoria State Government teachers and students /LanguagesOnline/

This kids internet website offers multimedia learning Lernspass für Kinder exercices for kids from 6 - 11, videos and games www.lernspass-fuer-kinder.de Elsy offers free E-learning sources for German as a second Language DaZ and German learning games such as hangman, Elsy E-learning systems memory, crosswords and other activities www.elsy.at The Blog informs on learning ideas for German as foreign language learners or those with basic German knowledge. Thematic worksheets are presented, for example for Easter, http://learngermanwithfun.blog Learn German with fun Mothers Day, Christmas or other special events. spot.com.au