Beginner's German

Course day and time to be determined.

This course will provide a foundation to German for someone new to the language (or with limited, pre-existing knowledge). The classroom activities will be structured and scaffolded to ensure an appropriate level of challenge for each learner, and lessons will provide extensive opportunity to develop both implicit (listening and reading) and explicit (speaking and writing) skills.

As a Christian teacher, I wish to point out that I have nowhere been able to find a curriculum that does not require me to constantly filter through statist and humanist filth to acquire fluency in the language itself. Every textbook that I have found embeds (to varying depths) an unbiblical worldview into its topical texts (mostly thinly-disguised opinion pieces), listening activities, speaking prompts and additional resources. There is both an absence of wholesome and nourishing material and promotion of ideological topics, which make language-learning a significant threat to the undiscerning and still-forming young mind.

To remedy this, students will follow a curriculum that I have personally curated to avoid pollution of the mind and enflesh the bones of language with edifying resources and commentary. Each pupil will develop linguistic ability in German alongside a worldview exploration of the German-speaking world.

In short, this course aims to produce confident bi-linguists with reinforced Biblical worldviews and enriched insight into a fascinating language and cultures.

NOTE: A diligent and mature 9 or 10-year old, who is willing to do the work and daily language-learning tasks will be a suitable candidate. Access to the language app/website ‘Memrise’ will be required - I leave this at parental discretion.

Course Objectives

1. Produce linguists, who are confident in each of the four components (listening, reading, speaking, writing) of the German language.
2. Develop a good foundational knowledge of German vocabulary and intrinsic understanding of German grammar.
3. Reinforce the good, the true, and the beautiful with Christian analysis of German culture (including Austria and Switzerland).
4. Encourage the reimagining (and future reconstruction) of Germany (and, to a lesser extent, Austria) according to a Biblical worldview.

Texts

• The complete list is to be decided, but will include Memrise, ThisIsLanguage, and the pupil/parental choice of an appropriate German-language television series.