First and foremost, German is rather difficult and completely awful for English speakers. I could write a 10,000 word post on what drives me nuts about the language, but Mark Twain was a better writer, and more or less encapsulated my feelings. It's surprising that two languages that are quite closely related are so different. My advancement in understanding German has kind of stagnated due to my abject refusal to speak it because I am 100% convinced I am going to sound like an idiot and make a huge fool out of myself (not that that's anything new), but I understand enough to dangerously misunderstand people. I also understand enough that German no longer sounds completely awful to me, but I'll be damned if it still isn't a rather unpleasant one to listen to.
Luckily, I understand enough to thoroughly enjoy German TV. The production values for German TV are very high. It helps that there are roughly 100 million speakers in quite wealthy countries (this includes Switzerland, where they don't really speak German, or so I'm told), but that doesn't stop it from having it's own terrible garbage and inexplicably bizarre programming, just like in the US of A. If my kid is anything like me, s/he's going to find it just as awesome as I do. Try to tell me that Atze Schröder (apparently a comedian) isn't the coolest gentleman on Earth.
As I already covered, Kid could watch the German version of Lazy Town, and he's also going to get SpongeBob Schwammkopf.
I've nothing more to say about that topic.
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