Musical German: Singing and Speaking, Travel Tribe

Welcome to Musical German: Singing and Speaking, Travel Tribe!

In this fun and musical class, learners explore German greetings, keywords, introduction vocabulary and pronunciation – through music! Learning a language is fun and easy with Frau Kelsey – let’s sing, dance and color!

With this class, you’ll need to be able to communicate at a beginning level with German speakers, perfect for taking a post-covid vacation to a German speaking country or even hosting an exchange student.

This class is lots of fun – and full of music! We sing 6-8 songs during each class, learn a set of key vocabulary words and phrases, and color fun pictures.

Class Structure

We begin each class with our Welcome Song and introductions. Students are invited to dance and sing and use their musical instruments! We practice easy songs to introduce the topic of the day, and then sing the German ABC’s. We review spelling, use catchy rhymes, and explore a different topic during each section (listed below). The students practice speaking, and explore vocabulary and sentence structure with gentle pronunciation correction.

Class 1: Greetings
Class 2: Colors
Class 3: Body Parts
Class 4: Animals and Counting

We then have Show and Tell! Because this is a recorded class, for show and tell, students learn how to describe and discuss their toys in German, sharing why they like them and what they like to do with them. We then sing and dance with our Show and Tell toys to our Show and Tell Song! The Show and Tell topics for each class:

Class 1: Cat/dog
Class 2: Doll/ball
Class 3: Dinosaur/Sunglasses
Class 4: Computer/Phone

It’s then time to color! Students are provided with two coloring pages before each class (you are also welcome to use blank paper or coloring pages of your choice if preferred, or printing is not an option), which we color for the last few minutes to wrap up our topic of the day! Students are then invited to sing our Goodbye Song!

Learning a language is fun and exciting with Frau Kelsey’s Musical German for Beginners – Singing and Speaking. Come join the musical Deutsch fun!

Class Project

After each class, students are encouraged to post their coloring sheets.

Prerequisites

No German experience necessary. Zero-beginners welcome. All beginners welcome, children and adults.

Important information

We begin at a zero-beginner level.

Ms. Kelsey

Ms. Kelsey is a professional opera singer and language teacher. She has taught German, French, English and Music for the past 15 years. While performing opera and teaching music, she lived in Germany, Austria, France, The Netherlands, England and Croatia. She has studied the French, German and Italian languages, as well as the pronunciations of Czech, Russian, Dutch and Thai (for performing Opera), and she uses music, dancing, singing and social games to make sure that each student enjoys their language-learning experience. Ms. Kelsey has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s of Music from Northwestern University in Chicago, with a Minor in German and French, as well as a TEFL and TESOL. She is also a travel writer and has been to 46 countries.

Who this course is for:

• Language learners who have a musical ear
• Folks who are curious about German and who also like music
• Families who wish to learn German as a family