Willkommen! Welcome to Margrit’s Little German School Takoma Park, Maryland (just 5 minutes outside of DC).

Small classes, all levels, all ages, taught by Berlin-native Margrit (MA in German Literature, Linguistics and Theater Education). Individual and online classes upon request.

Find Margrit’s contact details here.

All classes are taught according to Teaching with Comprehensible Input

What does that mean? Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI) takes into account 40 years of language learning and second language research, showing that every brain can learn a foreign language. By finding methods and exercises that replicate first language acquisition, I am bringing an immersion setting to my classrooms, using as little English as possible.

According to age and interests of my students, we sing, play, explore drama, move and discuss, in addition to reading and writing in German. Cultural Studies are included in the weekly curriculum and hightlighted around special German holidays, such as the Unification Day (October3), Fall of the Berlin War (November 9), Capitultion after WWII (May 8) etc. In our annual student newspaper, all students are invited to contribute with an article on a given topic. In the 2019 edition, the topic was “The Environment and Environmental Protection”, in 2018, the topic was “Famous German-Speaking People”, in 2017 it was “Geography”. With my background in German and English Literature and Lingustics (MA from the Freie Universität, Berlin, and Theater Education from Universität der Künste, Berlin), including two years of a teaching residency at a Berlin high school, I bring the latest research (TCI), European teaching methods, and my own love of learning and teaching, with the luxury of being a native speaker to each of my classes.

Interested in private classes?

• Online zoom classes available

• AP German preparation

• TestDaf preparation (https://www.testdaf.de/de/)

• independent study opportunity for high school students - all levels

• classes to improve academic reading or writing skills

• preparation for a trip to a German-speaking country or a job that requires German proficiancy

• intensive crash course for a short time

• Anything you don’t find offered here, please contact me to see if I can fit it into my schedule.

Rates:

Private lesson, 60 minutes: $100; 50 minutes: $90; 45 minutes: $80; 40 minutes: $75; 30 minutes: $65

Semi-private lesson, 45 minutes: $50

Group of three and more, 50 minutes: $40-45 (depending on group size)

Payments may be made either through Paypal (margrit.wong@gmail.com) or Venmo @Margrit-Wong.

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