Here are some of the teaching materials I use for my German lessons. At the bottom of the page you will find my blog posts where I write about German language things I encounter and want to share with everyone.
I highly recommend the textbook called "Deutsch Heute". You can choose any of the versions and editions, click HERE or on the image below for the edition from 2015:
Pretty obvious study aid, but I always recommend flash cards for vocabulary and memorization. I use them myself to study Russian and prepare for my drone certification. You can make your own, or just buy a set of 100 cards for a few dollars:
I recommend a few external websites to my students and use elements of them in my teaching for grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, etc:
German cases:
More on German cases:
And if you are struggling to type those pesky German Umlaute on your American keyboard, this website may be a great help to you:
While going through some of my old files I stumbled upon Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language", where he talks about the quirks of the German language and the difficulties of learning it. It is very eloquently written and I had to laugh a lot while reading it. Highly recommend!