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Lets Learn German Picture Dictionary Book
Lets Learn German Picture Dictionary is a first German dictionary made for children: big illustrated scenes of the world a child knows — home, school, family, animals, food, the street, the seasons — with the German word printed beside everything in the picture, so learning happens by looking, pointing, and naming.
There are no grammar tables to frighten a beginner and no wordlists to memorise: each double-page scene is a small world to explore, and the vocabulary of that world arrives together, the way children actually meet it. The German article travels with its noun, and the pictures make meanings obvious without translation.
It is written for young learners roughly between five and eleven, for parents who want German in the house before (or alongside) school, for primary and immersion teachers, and for any family building a bilingual childhood one picture at a time.
Picture dictionaries work for children because they respect how children learn: by naming the world. This book’s scenes are its curriculum — the kitchen names the kitchen, the playground names the playground — and because the words of a scene are learned as a family, they hold together in memory the way the scene holds together on the page. For parents, it is a shared-reading book as much as a dictionary: sit with a page, find and name together, invent the small games (fastest finger, I-spy in German, draw and label) that turn look-ups into play. For teachers, it is a topic bank for the primary German classroom, a scene for every unit of the year. And for the child, it is that rare schoolbook that gets browsed voluntarily — the surest sign a reference book can give.
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About This Book
A child’s first dictionary in a new language should feel like a picture book and work like a reference. This one does both: its illustrated scenes invite browsing, and its complete labelling means every browse teaches — hundreds of German words met in their natural company, with their articles attached.
What Young Learners Will Find
Scenes of a Child’s World
Full-page illustrations of the places children live in: home and family, school and classroom, food and mealtimes, clothes, the body, animals and the farm, town and transport, play, nature and the seasons — each scene densely and clearly labelled in German.
Words Learned in Families
The vocabulary of each scene arrives as a set — everything in the kitchen, everything at the zoo — which is how memory prefers it and how the world presents it. Opposites, colours, numbers, and the words for actions join the nouns, so scenes can be talked about, not just named.
Articles From the Start
Every noun carries der, die, or das from a child’s first encounter — the habit that separates learners who struggle with gender forever from those who never had to think about it. In a picture dictionary this costs nothing and pays for years.
Key Features
Illustration is the feature: bright scenes children want to explore, labelled completely enough to answer their own questions. The thematic completeness is the second — a full early-years wordstock in one browsing book — and the third is durability of use: it serves the pre-reader who points, the reader who names, and the older child who writes.
Who This Book Is For
It is for children aged about five to eleven beginning German at home or school, parents and grandparents creating bilingual homes, primary and immersion teachers, homeschoolers, and libraries stocking a first German reference that children will genuinely open.
How to Use This Book
Browse together, little and often: one scene at a time, naming aloud, pointing, repeating. Play the games the format invites — I-spy (‘Ich sehe was’), fastest-finger naming, drawing a scene and labelling it from the book. Let the child keep returning to favourite scenes; repetition by choice is the deepest learning there is, and a picture dictionary is built to be returned to.
Related Books
For grown-up visual vocabulary, see the German English Bilingual Visual Dictionary. A first German word book for older children is Learn German Vocabulary Word Power 101.
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