Download or read book Short Stories in German for Beginners written by Olly Richards and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when reading. What does this book give you? · Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary · Controlled language at your level, including the 1000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently · Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability · Pleasure! It's much easier to learn a new language when you're having fun, and research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!' · Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including · A glossary for bolded words in each text · A bilingual word list · Full plot summary · Comprehension questions after each chapter. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in German for Beginners will make learning German easy and enjoyable.
Download or read book Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century written by M. Charlotte Wolf and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ideal for students, this affordable anthology features expert new translations of a dozen works previously unavailable in English. The translations appear alongside the original German text of such stories as "Beauty and the Beast" by Irmtraud Morgner, Gabriele Wohmann's "Good Luck and Bad Luck," and tales by other modern authors, including Grunert, Inneberger, and Klockmann"--
Download or read book Best Short Stories written by Franz Kafka and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFive great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." /div
Download or read book Deutsche Kurzgeschichten 2 written by David Constantine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1976 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features parallel German and English texts of eight short stories that range in style from the classical method of Ernst Penzoldt to the montage technique of Alexander Kluge.
Download or read book Caperucita Roja written by Jacob Grimm and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her sick grandmother.
Download or read book Becoming Fluent in German written by Philipp Eich and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning German may seem like a difficult task. Especially when it comes to the nature of the German language. The good news is that's just a false presumption. Every language can be learned if you know the right technique and the right information. It is proven that the easiest way to learn a language is to hear it in action. Hearing a natural german conversation is the best thing you can do, it's like listening to a story. Natural is the keyword in that sentence. A natural approach to learning the language is the fastest and simplest approach to do it. Why do you think you hear people learning a language extremely fast when they move to another country? Because they hear it naturally, every day. Learn German with stories . Maybe the easiest language learning system ever created. How does that sound to you? People listen to other people's stories. The human mind is programmed to like stories because that's what our life is. A story. And because of this very reason, I've crafted stories that will easily cut you months of struggling to learn German. There will no longer be a "struggle". Moving to Germany just to learn German is not a solution . That's why my book "brings" Germany to you. It brings stories to you. Learning German with my stories will grab your mind into believing that you will actually "live" into German conversations. When you're reading a story, you feel like you're there. The same concept applies to learning German with stories. About my learning German with stories book : It contains 150 short stories about everyday situations Every story is followed by questions and key vocabulary The more you read, the easier your brain will automatically get used to the German language ( isn't that easily beautiful? ) It includes more than 900 digital flashcards for those not able to understand the book completely from the beginning It uses psychologically inserted KEY PATTERNS to make your brain automatically easily learn sentences and words (this is key) The book uses a read-word-repeat writing system along the stories for natural, fluid learning ( heavy repetition = higher retention rate ) The Benefits of using my book: Easily learn German with stories Feel at ease when reading & learning with the flow of the stories No struggle forcing to learn words/phrases Learn at your own pace Feel confident in your German language skills after a few weeks ONLY Once you learn, you NEVER forget Learn German with my stories ( the easy way )
Download or read book 100 German Short Stories For Beginners And Intermediate Students written by Lingua Magisterium and published by Lingua Magisterium. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 German Short Stories For Beginners And Intermediate Students Learning German can be challenging, but not with this book. Our aim with this book will be to supply you with entertaining, helpful and challenging learning material that will not only allow you to learn German, but also help you to make the experience more pleasant, as any language learning book should be. This book has been well-written and revised by native German and English linguists that will allow you to: * Interpret and understand the German short stories for beginners with the use of a list of German-English vocabulary. * Follow the longer stories for intermediate students with English parallel text, a plot summary and multiple choice questions. Follow the stories by listening to the audio to enhance and adapt your pronunciation. All German short stories are unique and hopefully entertaining in content, and new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed. Also, this German language learning book offers you a wide range of important information you can use when you travel to Germany or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for German language learners but also for anyone interested in German culture in general. There are many German learning books for beginners out there, but this book can help you in many ways; if you would like to become a reader of the German language this book is for you. To learn German with stories you should also listen to quality audio recordings. At the end of this book, you get access to two mp3 audio files which include the 100 short stories in the book. 40 stories are recorded by a male voice and 60 by a female voice. Improve your reading and listening skills by reading and listening to the German stories, with time, you’ll see that you understand each story better. Don’t force yourself too much and don’t give up. We hope that you’ll enjoy these wonderful stories in this book.
Download or read book Great German Short Stories written by Evan Bates and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations of eight masterpieces by writers who defined the modern German short story. Includes works by Schnitzler, Kleist, Kafka, Mann, Hauptmann, Rilke, Hoffmann, and Brentano.
Download or read book Short Stories in German written by Ernst Zillekens and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature in the original, with the aid of parallel translations. The majority of these stories have been written in the past decade, and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.
Download or read book Parallel Text German Short Stories written by David Constantine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1992-07-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting classical storytelling of Penzoldt. With reading notes and parallel texts in German and English, this anthology is valuable to the German student of English as well as the English student of German. Reflecting trends in German literature, the stories have been selected for their quality as well as their readability, and will enhance the appreciation of both languages.
Download or read book Five Great German Short Stories written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five outstanding selections from noble tradition: Heinrich von Kleist's "The Earthquake in Chile," E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman," Arthur Schnitzler's "Lieutenant Gustl," Thomas Mann's "Tristan," and Franz Kafka's "The Judgment."
Download or read book German Short Stories for Beginners Book 1 written by Learn Like A Native and published by Learn Like a Native. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget about boring lectures on grammar and endless vocabulary lists. With the help of this book, English speakers like you can easily learn German and immerse themselves in it without having to leave the country!
Download or read book The German Lesson written by Siegfried Lenz and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find out,” Lenz says, “where the joys of duty could lead a people.” Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Download or read book Short Stories in Chinese written by John Balcom and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time This new volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world’s most spoken language, without having to constantly to refer back to a dictionary. The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers as well as emerging voices. From a story by Li Rui about the honest simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to one by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society, they are infused with both rural dialect and urban slang and feature a wide range of styles and points of view. Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of German Stories written by Francis John Lamport and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1974 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kunterbunt und Kurz Geschrieben written by James Pfrehm and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kunterbunt und kurz geschrieben is an intermediate-level German reader that can be used as either the main text in a conversation course or a supplementary text in an intermediate grammar review course. James Pfrehm's innovative approach includes text and audio podcasts of German short stories that are distinctly different from canonical texts studied in upper-level courses. Some of the features of the book include topical, engaging, and often humorous modern short stories; a grammar activity in each chapter; and video podcasts of short stories created by Pfrehm. Go to yalebooks.com/kunterbunt to access the media files and exercise resources.
Download or read book The English Struwwelpeter written by Heinrich Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
