Learn German With Stories: Aschkalon (Complete Edition) - The Interactive Fantasy Adventure For German Learners

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by André Klein

Forget about boring textbooks! Save the world and learn German one sword-fight at a time!

This is the complete edition of the Aschkalon fantasy trilogy for intermediate and advanced German learners.

After a long and terrible war a warrior returns home, but nothing is as he remembers. The throne is occupied by a dark usurper and the kingdom is haunted by a strange curse. Can you bring the evil forces to justice and restore peace and glory?

This epic interactive adventure puts you, the reader, at the heart of the action. Boost your grammar by engaging in sword fights, improve your conversation skills by interacting with characters and enhance your vocabulary while exploring forests and dungeons.

While this books is aimed at intermediate and advanced German learners, it can also serve as an exciting way for beginners to get a feeling for the flow of narrative German. Each scene comes with a vocabulary section with English translation. For additional support, we also recommend installing a German-English digital dictionary on your Kindle device.

Aschkalon is 100% compatible with all Amazon Kindle devices and apps. Enjoy this book on your desktop, e-reader, tablet or smartphone!

Genres: German Literature

505 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 22, 2015

About the author

André Klein was born in Germany, grew up in Sweden and Thailand and currently lives in Israel. He has been teaching languages for more than 15 years and is the author of short stories, picture books and non-fiction works in English and German.

Reviews

[LiB · Rating 3 out of 5]

The idea of a Choose Your Own Adventure book as a fun way of learning German is inspired. I particularly liked the use of German grammar questions as a replacement for rolling a dice or flipping a coin.

I just wish the author hadn't been so faithful to those staples of 80's children's literature when it came to a story. It's all here - the hero who is narrated in second-person for the purpose of reader insertion, yet unambiguously male, the simplistic good vs evil storyline hidden behind pseudophilosophical gobbledegook, the questionable social values In this case, we are told that the high eyebrows and slender lips of the queen show her nobility, even through the muck and emaciation of her captivity., the solving of practically all problems by hitting something with a sword.

Yes, there is some nostalgia value, but even though I liked the format I thought Choose Your Own Adventures were rubbish as a girl- and this reminded me why. Of course, if you were one of those kids who devoured them by the school library shelf-ful, you will probably adore this.

[Emily Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great adventure and good practice!

Following the journey and dying and getting thrown back to the beginning a few times provided the repetition I needed to improve my German as well as the motivation to return to the text again and again over the course of a few weeks. I really wanted to reach the end! Fun and well written.

[Paul Randall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great learning tool!

Unlike most stories, this format allows narration to be told in the present (instead of past tense) and to practise 2nd person “du” (rather than the story being told mostly in the 3rd person “er”).

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Come for the language instruction; stay for the adventure

I have been collecting Andre Klein’s books for some years and my German continues to improve. This story may not be LOTR level adventure/fantasy, but it’s great fun. I highly recommend it!

[Ansam Zedan]

Highly recommended for learning German

[Evie Potter]

I'm German A2 student. I love to learn German. I think this seit will be helpful for me to learn German with stories.