Learn German With Stories: Schlamassel in Stuttgart - 10 Short Stories For Beginners

Dino lernt Deutsch #10

by André Klein

Take your German to the next level and boost your vocabulary, reading comprehension and grammar sense with episode 10 of the bestselling Dino lernt Deutsch German short story series for beginners! In this sequel to "Digital in Dresden", Dino and Elisabeth follow an invitation to attend a prestigious event, but when nothing goes as planned they suddenly find themselves on a strange quest through Germany's 6th largest city. With a worried relative in tow they hunt for clues across the valley basin of the capital of Baden-Württemberg, enlisting unlikely help from a local to unravel a mounting mystery. Explore Stuttgart, learn about local culture, history and cuisine, and improve your German effortlessly along the way!Learning German Doesn't Have To Be A ChoreJust got started learning German? Memorized a few words but struggle with longer texts? This book is designed to help beginners take the leap from studying isolated words and phrases to reading (and enjoying!) naturally flowing German storytelling. Using simplified syntax and a basic vocabulary you can build upon, this set of 10 connected short stories is carefully crafted to allow even novice learners to fully immerse themselves in an authentic German language experience. Each chapter comes with a complete German-English dictionary with special emphasis on collocative phrases (high frequency word combinations), short sentences and expressions designed for improved memorization. By working with these building blocks instead of just single words, learners can boost their active usage of new material instantly and make the learning process more fluid and fun.What You'll Find In This Book10 chapters set in the city of Stuttgarta balance between cozy vocabulary and introduction of new wordstons of phrases and expressions you will actually use in daily lifefun facts about Stuttgart, past and presenta detailed German-English dictionary after every chapterenough support to make following along easy, without spoiling your own effortsfun short quizzes to check your text-comprehension (including answers)a relatable protagonist and other fun charactershand-drawn illustrations by the authorthe beginning of a grand German learning adventure ...Read, Learn & Collect Them AllYes! That's right. This is the ninth episode of a whole series of exciting German short stories for beginners. Follow our protagonist to Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg, Vienna, Berlin and many other cities! Before you know it, you'll have travelled half of Europe and picked up more German than years' worth of expensive courses. Learning German has never been more fun.What You WON'T Find In This Bookparallel translations that may seem convenient but don't teach you anythingdull characters designed by academics and committeesinterspersed English sentences that take you out of the reading flowarchaic German words and phrases nobody uses in real lifea jumble of unrelated places, people and eventswordy footnotes that only get in the way of immersioncondescending storytelling that insults your intelligencea teaching approach which takes itself too seriously

Genres: German Literature, Language, Short Stories

119 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 10, 2019

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

[Manal (✿◡‿◡) منال · Rating 4 out of 5]

These books are keeping me happy through my gruel language learning

[Samichtime · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is probably b2 or b1. Klein throws you for the wolves so hard that the wolves probably died on impact!! 😭
I guess I’ll finish out the series because there’s only one left but this was grueling! 🫠

[Efe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Goodbye Dino. It was a nice ride.

[Emily Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great Dino story! This time he's visiting Stuttgart when the unexpected disappearance of a member of Elizabeth's family turns him into a detective! Enjoy learning the German language along with a few interesting cultural details about Stuttgart and, in this book, a smattering of Yiddish from Elizabeth's long-suffering mother. What a Schlamassel!

[Nancy Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is up to the usual very high Andre Klein standard. It is an engaging modern story--this time with a mystery to be solved. As a protagonist Dino is as likable and naive as ever. And the reader learns a good bit about Stuttgart very painlessly. My only caveat is that these "Learn German with Stories" books are not appropriate for beginners who know only 100 German words or fewer. This is not the "Dick and Jane" for German learners. It is a series of stories for German learners who already have a decent vocabulary committed to memory. That might be an "advanced beginner" or an "intermediate" learner. There are probably even advanced students who would enjoy these books, which are quite clever and contain irony, social commentary, and tie-ins to current events.

[Serdar Poirot · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dino ve Elizabeth'in hikayeleri bu kitapta da devam ediyor. Stuttgart şehrine gelen Dino, Elizabeth'in üvey kardeşinin ayarlaması ile gelir ama onu göremez. Çünkü ortadan kaybolmuştur. Annesi ile beraber onu ararlar. Ama bulamazlar. Bu arada bir polis eskisi de onlara yardım edeceğini söyler. Acaba kız kardeş bulunacak mıdır? Bundan sonra neler olacaktır? Diğerleri kadar olmasa da idare edecek bir kitap.

[Ruth clarke · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always enjoy Andre Klein's books, They are so well written, I don't think I have ever found an error in one of them. This story was a little more complex than the other ones, but I suspect that is a preparation for the more advanced series that follows the ''Dino learned Deutsch'' ones. Thoroughly enjoyed this one.

[Pietro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Conversely to the other books of the series, the plot of this one seems a little bit odd and less captivating. But we read these for the language so it's fine. I would say the vocabulary here is more on the B2 side than on the B1, so the read was more challenging

[Staś Werno · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tour de force through Stuttgart

[Ayse Serra Isil · Rating 5 out of 5]

It gets harder through the series which is perfect! My 2021 goal was to finish it all and I have only one left. Hope to read other German books as well.

[Josh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent addition to the Dino saga. Definitely the most challenging book of the series so far, but rewarding to finish.

[Oleg Abrazhaev · Rating 5 out of 5]

So viele neue Wörter

[Ian Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

In "Schlamassel in Stuttgart", Dino and Elisabeth travel to Stuttgart to attend an award ceremony for Elisabeth's sister, but not everything goes as planned.

Another great read from André Klein. This one has some of the funniest dialogue in the series, as Dino, naive and clueless as ever, drives his girlfriend and her family nuts with unintentionally hilarious statements like "Was haben Kekse mit Solartechnik zu tun?" (you have to read it in context to get the full effect).