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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/german-english/kindergarten https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/german-english/k... Am I missing something?

• eru 3y ago
  You are missing the subtleties. Perhaps simpler: naively German Brot and English bread are the same words. Similar for German Kuchen and English Cake. But there are lots of things that an English speaker might call bread, that a German speaker might call Kuchen. (Brioche might be one such example.)
• MandieD 3y ago
  Kindergarten to Americans: when most children start elementary school, usually age 5 (maybe 6 if their parents didn’t think they were quite ready), Grade 0. What Germans would call “Vorschuljahr” (last year of Kindergarten, where there’s less play and more learning how to count, recognize letters, and sit still at a table) Kindergarten to Germans: usually its own establishment, available but not mandatory from age 3, usually has fees in the 200 EUR/mo range for all day with hot lunch (with further subsidies for poorer families), rather like an American preschool for ages 3-5, with the 5-6 year (“Vorschuljahr”) being more like American kindergarten.
  • denysvitali 3y ago
    The Kindergarten to Germans you're describing seems like the "Kita": https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertagesst%C3%A4tte https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertagesst%C3%A4tte - but the whole education system is very confusing and it's generally not language-specific but more culturally specific AFAIK
    • eru 3y ago
      That Wikipedia article that you are describing mentions that at the moment, a Kindergarten is a kind of Kita. Btw, Singaporean English uses Kindergarten in yet another subtle different meaning. They distinguish day care and Kindergarten.