Chapter 100 is being written to help parents teach German to their childern.
Can we teach kids German via the Internet? Do we know enough about the languages of the WEB to teach kids German? I do not know. It might be fun to try. You many not know a word of German, but I am sure you can make come contribution to the success of this project. You may have talents in HTML, javascripts, visual basic scripts, active server pages, or you may be able to help with artwork.
But we also need parents who can help their own childern learn German by using these pages. If you are doing, that please write us once a week about the problems so we can seek improvements. Perhaps, you are a student or adult trying to improve your German by using these pages--please let us know where you need help.
Chapter 200 is devoted to learning German vocabulary by elementary childern and adults.
Chaper 300 teaches the rules of German grammar, etc. to the youth or adult trying to teach himself German.
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Editor's Note: Chapter 100 of this site is for teaching young childern to read German. It makes no difference whether they are German childern or natives of some other country. This is an international cooperative effort by the members of GermanList@listbot.com. You are invited to join us. The final version of these pages should not look anything like this first effort.
I hope the first pages of Chaper 100 will be suitable for very young childern. My experience has been that young childern shown the words for hand, head, feet, fingers, and belly, can point to that part of their body. I painted those words on white cards. The letters were in red paint and 5 cm tall. When my son was age 17 months, he enjoyed this game so much that he often brought the cards to me wanting me to hold up cards so he could play the game. Now we can use a computer and the Times Roman Font. It should be simple to write a computer program in Qbasic which you can download for this exercise. At the top of the list could be the easiest words and lower on the list could be door, floor, and more difficult terms. The parent could enter the number 7 and the computer would display the the first 7 words randomly. If the child can't remember he could the - key of the numberic pad for help and get a picture. Or he could press + for the next word.
The members of GermanList@listbot.com could write these pages and those having childern at home or in their classroom could test the programs and report back to us. Reid Andrew Eddleman (age 3 months) are you paying attention?
104 - a sample page, please suggest modifications.
Suggestions, corrections, and comments are appreciated: Contact Harold Eddleman indbio@disknet.com