There is some confusion to the translation of ‘Kindergarten’ into English language. The English use the term ‘Kindergarten’ for the one year before elementary school. This kind of Kindergarten is limited to this last year. The semantics of German ‘Kindergarten’ doesn’t seem to know these limitation. It doesn’t easily allow a different form of nursery school, toddler groups and pre-school offers. Anyway, all terms refer to a pre-school offer.
However, in my opinion there are such offers in Ruhr. Some language schools set up schools for children, and there are toddler groups and Kindgarten with a profile that includes introduction into English language. On the internet I also find classifieds looking for nurses that speak German and English. Some school projects offer or plan to offer an English language nursery. Further (private) offers are an English language toddler group in Dortmund (Krabbelgruppe Dortmund) and an additional offer for pre-school children in Essen by Dreistein. The last one I found via a newspaper article in the NRZ which also mentions prices.
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