Kindergarten
Berlin offers a large selection of bilingual kindergartens with a variety of languages: http://www.businesslocationcenter.de/de/willkommen-in-berlin/familienfreundlich-stadt/kindertagesbetreuung/mehrsprachige-kitas
Schools in Berlin
The Berlin Education Act allows schools to offer students of non-German language of origin mother tongue teaching. The schools can use the offers of third parties (§ 15 Abs. 3 Schulgesetz Berlin).
At present, mother tongue supplementary teaching (MEU) is offered by diplomatic missions in the form of so-called consular education, mostly in Turkish, but also in Portuguese, Italian, Macedonian and Serbian.
In addition to the offer of the Turkish Consulate, since February 2018 there are elective courses “Native language Turkish” in 20 primary elementary schools in Berlin for pupils in grades 1-3. Children with Turkish family language will have the opportunity to participate in a 2-hour working group Turkish, which will be offered in addition to regular lessons. The teaching is provided by teachers from the state of Berlin, who are working at the respective school (http://www.berlin.de/familie/de/nachrichten/tuerkisch-staerken-start-des-ag-angebots-herkunftssprachenunterricht-tuerkisch-fuer-grundschuelerinnen-und-schueler-528).
Either elementary and secondary schools in Berlin offer bilingual instruction:
· Schulen, die bilingualen Unterricht in Deutsch-Englisch anbieten
· Schulen, die bilingualen Unterricht in Deutsch-Französisch anbieten
· Schulen, die bilingualen Unterricht in Deutsch-Spanisch anbieten
In elementary and secondary schools of the Staatliche Europa-Schulen Berlin (SESB) bilingual instruction in nine language combinations is offered: German-English, German-French, German-Greek, German-Italian, German-Polish, German-Portuguese, German-Russian, German-Spanish and German-Turkish (http://www.berlin.de/sen/bildung/schule/besondere-schulangebote/staatliche-europaschule/).