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KiSchu: IN-PERSON 2025/26 Advanced German (DSD II)

Start
Monday, September 08, 2025
5:30 PM
End
Monday, June 01, 2026
7:00 PM
Location
IN-PERSON

Registration

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14-18 year olds

Willkommen to the 2025/26 school year at the Kinderschule!

class description

This community based heritage learning class is a full immersion German program with an emphasis on academic German which will bring our students on par with the German language skills of an "Abiturient" (a student who finished High School). At the same time, it is important to us that our students not only learn the language, but also the culture, and become part of our community.

Academically, our program is accredited with the Zentralstelle für Auslandsschulwesen (ZfA), we follow the European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFR), and this class explicitly prepares students for the Deutsche Sprachdiplom II. But while we offer and prepare for this exam, students take it on a voluntary basis, and are welcome to enjoy this class without a final exam, as it is more important to us that our students enjoy learning the culture and the language than that they excel in any standardized test.

Meeting times

IN-PERSON: Mondays, 5:30-7pm (see calendar here).

ONLINE: Saturdays Register here for the Online Class

Class placement

If your child(ren) have been enrolled with us in the school year 2024/25, and have passed the DSD I exam, this is the right class. Students generally take this class for at least a full year before they prepare for the actual exam and many students take this class for two years before taking the exam.

If you are not sure about your child(ren)'s level, please have them take this short placement test and send us the results. If your child(ren) are 12 years old or younger, please sign them up with our in-person Saturday school, we do offer all levels.

Price

Our school year has 32 sessions, and costs $615 for friends of DANK (become a friend here!). Generally, if you are signing up more than one child, the family friend option pays for itself and you will be able to take advantage of all our special offers for our friends throughout the year. For the general public the price is $646.

There is an additional $45 book and material fee. We will provide the books used, and any additional learning materials needed.

ACHTUNG! EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: If you sign up between May 1st and May 31st, the Friends of DANK Haus price is $600 and the price for the general public is $630.

If you would like to pay this amount in full, please indicate so during registration, if not, we will invoice you quarterly, resulting in 4 charges.

Sign-up fee

Sign up is free, we will send you an invoice after you have signed up.

Early Bird Pricing runs May 1 - May 31st, 2025.

Regular pricing runs June 1st - July 14th. If you sign up after July 15th, there is a $25 surcharge, if you sign up after August 15th, there is a $50 surcharge.

Minimum Enrollment

There need to be at least 6 students in order for this class to come together. In case of insufficient enrollment, we may merge this course with the virtual Saturday class.