I bought a Nintendo DS game for my brain training with math, German, technical knowledge, English 1st - 4th grade. Now I'm a bit surprised when the students start teaching English. I only had my first English lesson in the 5th grade of secondary school. However, I was last in high school in 2005 or so. Do the primary school students then have the same learning material as a 5th grade from earlier?
I had English right from the first grade and was on a "normal" GS, so I assume that it is the same with others.
In my time, I had English from the 3rd grade and as far as I know (at least here in Bavaria) that's still the case.
There are certainly schools where you start with the language in the first grade, yes.
Oh yes, I was in 1st to 4th grade in a special school and a special class with primary school material. It is possible that English was not taught anyway. Then I switched to secondary school
Oh yes, I was in 1st to 4th grade in a special school and a special class with primary school material. It is possible that English was not taught anyway. Then I switched to secondary school
Yes, it may well be that it was because of it.
It is definitely because of that.
I had English from the 2nd. In the 1st I was at another school, otherwise I would probably have had English from the 1st. But the English lessons at the elementary school were totally bad anyway. I came to grammar school with the knowledge of only a few vocabulary (items of clothing, colors, plants). So you can only describe English lessons from the 5th as a real lesson, in which you have also learned something. At least that's how it was for me.
Even kindergartens have a kind of curriculum. Nowadays it is not uncommon for people to start teaching the children a little English in a playful way! For example in the form of singing or little counting rhymes or something.
English from the 1st grade is anything but rare. When exactly it starts and at what "level" is - as is so often the case with the subject of schools - a matter of the country. In other words, there are differences depending on the state.
As other answers show, there are obviously differences. In Rhineland-Palatinate (there may be exceptions) a foreign language is generally taught from the 1st grade, usually English, in the south of RLP it can also be French at some schools, the latter I know for sure.
