How to teach small kids

Hi, I have two kids six and three years old and decided to teach them German, even though it is my poorest language but also the one I am learning now. I didn’t force anything, they just see my enthusiasm for languages and are really willing to learn. I wonder if it is possible to teach them if I can’t afford to organize native speakers at this moment?
From my understanding, watching videos will not help much as this is incomprehensible input. Is it a good strategy to use apps with images to build some basic vocabulary (they like them) and after that introduce videos/audio already partly comprehensible? Or do you think that without speaking they will not learn much as children learn primarily by interaction?

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I’d say that series made for children are a good starting point. The amount of vocabulary used is limited, the grammar rudimentary. There is a lot of repetition and one can guess a lot from the context. So it isn’t completely incomprehensible, although they might not be able to guess everything. But you can explain things to them and just see how it goes. If the amount of comprehension is too low they will lose interest anyways.

Besides that I’d say anything that they show interest in will work. I wouldn’t assume that you can find a super efficient way of teaching them, if you are not very good in German already and have noone at you disposal who is. However, at their age they merely speak their mother tongue, so maybe efficiency isn’t the key factor here. Upholding their interest is probably more important.

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