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Start of your German language journey with the right guidance to high German pronunciation, literature, culture and fun taught by a German language professor and native speaker! 

This course is for total beginners of the German language. The students will learn introducing themselves in German, learning colors, numbers, the alphabet, expressing first sentences. 

Like all my courses, this class we will lean heavily on the natural language immersion model. Students will have fun learning a wide range of basic German vocabulary and phrases.  They will also study important cultural, geographical and historical concepts related to Germany and the German language. The focus in this class will be on language comprehension and taking any fear of becoming confident German communicators from the start as well as repeating high German (no accent) after me and setting the ground work for correct and native-like pronunciation. At the end of the course your student will be able to carry short conversations in German, introduce him or herself to their peers, comprehend basic conversational concepts, and if ready hold a mini presentation in German. 

Being a native speaker I have found that in teaching German the most efficient and most natural approach is the language immersion model. The students will hear me speak a lot of German and will have fun repeating a lot of phrases after me. We will initially focus on comprehension and then move to reading, writing and first grammatical concepts to understand German sentence structure. Your scholar will not notice how much he or she is learning while having fun!

I am a very compassionate, encouraging and fun loving teacher and it is a joy to continuously see my students gain confidence in their speaking ability and pronunciation. Highlight of my month is always hearing formerly shy students confidently holding accent free presentations at the end of the semester!

About me: I studied Linguistics at a German University (Universitaet Hamburg) am faculty at two prestigious universities in Southern California. I have been tutoring and teaching all ages in various classroom and private settings for the past 20 years - including language institutes, public charter schools and private schools. I am passionate about the German language and culture and excited about every student who would like to learn and travel!

I speak high German (no dialect) and enjoy hearing my students develop an accent-free German, naturally by listening to me speak and by hearing themselves repeat German phrases till they become natural to them.  

Every class will begin with a review of the previous class. We will practice and reinforce what we learnt before we go into the new material. I am also a big advocate of team work and hope to begin small group projects in this class already to help students develop positive and mutually encouraging relationships with each other.

I'm looking forward to seeing you in my class soon! 
(Ich freue mich dich bald kennenzulernen!! ) 

Auf Wiedersehen,
Nancy