Learning German Mumbro Zinell

Welcome to Mumbros and Zinell's mysterious cave world! Planet Schule's interactive educational game allows children of primary school age to learn German in a playful way and to expand their language skills at their own pace. The game contains two locations with nine exercises each, training basic German idioms and grammar. Each exercise is divided into four parts: learning by playing, listening, reading and writing. The difficulty of the exercises automatically adapts to the learner's knowledge level.

The app is part of the media package "Learning German with Mumbro & Zinell" by Planet Schule, which also includes ten films, an online game, accompanying materials and teaching suggestions: mumbro-und-zinell.de

At a glance

- Four stations: Farm, market place, school and circus

- 36 exercises

- listening comprehension, reading and writing are trained

- vocabulary, grammar, idioms are taught

The topics are for example:

- Numbers

- atomic numbers

- time

- colors

- food

- personal hygiene

- school supplies

- personal pronoun

- Increase of adjectives

- Modal verb "can"

- reflexive verbs with accusative pronouns

- Transport

- family ties

- body parts

- weekdays

- Conjugation of "to be"

- sentence bracket