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German Short Stories for Beginners Volume 2: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn German & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy German Stories)
Is learning German your next big goal – but finding suitable reading material is difficult?
Do you find traditional textbooks boring, and need an entertaining alternative that can give you the tools to become a German speaker?
German students regularly have to go through the toughest experiences to find proper reading material that isn’t too tough or too tedious for them — as language teachers, we know this.
This is why we’ve created another German Short Stories for Beginners, to ensure that young and old students at the entry level of learning can have yet another chance to polish their German tongue and survive to tell the tale!
Twenty easy-to-read, entertaining and interesting stories await inside, along with the best tools to help you practice once you’re done reading each tale. Our book will ensure you not only can read something that will expand your knowledge on German, but that you will understand and be able to pick it apart piece by piece in your quest for learning.
How German Short Stories for Beginners Vol.2
Each story will contain important lessons (Nouns, Pronouns, Future Tense, conversational terms, and more), involving an interesting and entertaining story with realistic dialogues and day-to-day situations.The summaries a synopsis in German and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about.At the end of those summaries, you’ll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance!Finally, you’ll be provided with a set of tricky questions in German, providing you with the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Don’t worry if you don’t know the answer to any — we will provide them immediately after, but no cheating!Do you think you can handle it? If the answer is yes, then you’re definitely on your way to becoming a fluent German speaker, and we’ll certainly help you on the way!
So, look no further! Pick up your copy of German Short Stories for Beginners Vol.2 and take your German to the next level right now!
Do you find traditional textbooks boring, and need an entertaining alternative that can give you the tools to become a German speaker?
German students regularly have to go through the toughest experiences to find proper reading material that isn’t too tough or too tedious for them — as language teachers, we know this.
This is why we’ve created another German Short Stories for Beginners, to ensure that young and old students at the entry level of learning can have yet another chance to polish their German tongue and survive to tell the tale!
Twenty easy-to-read, entertaining and interesting stories await inside, along with the best tools to help you practice once you’re done reading each tale. Our book will ensure you not only can read something that will expand your knowledge on German, but that you will understand and be able to pick it apart piece by piece in your quest for learning.
How German Short Stories for Beginners Vol.2
Each story will contain important lessons (Nouns, Pronouns, Future Tense, conversational terms, and more), involving an interesting and entertaining story with realistic dialogues and day-to-day situations.The summaries a synopsis in German and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about.At the end of those summaries, you’ll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance!Finally, you’ll be provided with a set of tricky questions in German, providing you with the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Don’t worry if you don’t know the answer to any — we will provide them immediately after, but no cheating!Do you think you can handle it? If the answer is yes, then you’re definitely on your way to becoming a fluent German speaker, and we’ll certainly help you on the way!
So, look no further! Pick up your copy of German Short Stories for Beginners Vol.2 and take your German to the next level right now!
206 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2020
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October 15, 2020
I read this book via an Amazon KU [KINDLE Unlimited] download.
During my college days, about 45 years, I had Sociology as my major for which I’d received my BA, and for my minor, I wound up taking German. In those days, my oral comprehension had been excellent [I’d received an A]; reading comprehension had been a B+, with my writing being somewhat lower. The oral capabilities are the most important that one needs to communicate with others in German.
While my oral comprehension of spoken German going from German to English after all of these years is still relatively quite decent after all of these years, these days, I’ve got problems trying to formulate what I’d like to say in German. I’m mentioning this because my dear OH and I might be traveling to Europe this summer with the possibility of spending a day or two in either Germany.
With the summer desire to travel to Germany getting squashed by the COVID-19 virus, I figured I should try to brush up on my reading German skills. Having found this publisher’s book on German conversational dialogues helpful in my verbal skills, I felt their book on reading German [for beginners] would be a decent job on my reading skills, as I’ve already stated. I wasn’t disappointed.
I found reading the stories to be relatively easy, especially when I envisioned someone else reading the stories aloud as I concentrated on the visual words I read. The German-English dictionary at the end of each story aids in increasing a reader’s German vocabulary for both reading and speaking German. The questions at the end do a decent job of revealing whether or not a reader understood what they’ve read.
All in all, I found this book to be a WUNDERBAR and AUSGEZEICHNET [wonderful and excellent] resource in helping beginners of the German language in being able to read it with some proficiency. Having refreshed my memory in reading German and others in the beginning to read it, I’ve given the publisher 5 STARS for their endeavor here.
During my college days, about 45 years, I had Sociology as my major for which I’d received my BA, and for my minor, I wound up taking German. In those days, my oral comprehension had been excellent [I’d received an A]; reading comprehension had been a B+, with my writing being somewhat lower. The oral capabilities are the most important that one needs to communicate with others in German.
While my oral comprehension of spoken German going from German to English after all of these years is still relatively quite decent after all of these years, these days, I’ve got problems trying to formulate what I’d like to say in German. I’m mentioning this because my dear OH and I might be traveling to Europe this summer with the possibility of spending a day or two in either Germany.
With the summer desire to travel to Germany getting squashed by the COVID-19 virus, I figured I should try to brush up on my reading German skills. Having found this publisher’s book on German conversational dialogues helpful in my verbal skills, I felt their book on reading German [for beginners] would be a decent job on my reading skills, as I’ve already stated. I wasn’t disappointed.
I found reading the stories to be relatively easy, especially when I envisioned someone else reading the stories aloud as I concentrated on the visual words I read. The German-English dictionary at the end of each story aids in increasing a reader’s German vocabulary for both reading and speaking German. The questions at the end do a decent job of revealing whether or not a reader understood what they’ve read.
All in all, I found this book to be a WUNDERBAR and AUSGEZEICHNET [wonderful and excellent] resource in helping beginners of the German language in being able to read it with some proficiency. Having refreshed my memory in reading German and others in the beginning to read it, I’ve given the publisher 5 STARS for their endeavor here.
November 21, 2020
Summary, But No Translation of German Stories Hampers Learning
I have reviewed a number of short story language learning books by this publisher, and I am always disappointed in them. While the stories could certainly be helpful for an extensive German language learner, giving one more thing to aid learning German, the other tools provided in the book don't go far enough. I like the vocabulary list and the comprehension questions in German; those are fine. But I don't like that the publisher only included a *summary* of the full German story in English. Honestly, what use is a summary for language learners? A full translation certainly helps more, allowing the student to better appreciate differences in structure and vocabulary. German is particularly difficult to learn in terms of structure, so I think not having a full translation really hampers learning in this case. As an aside, the grammar, punctuation, and usage in the English sections are riddled with errors; I don’t know how far I’d trust the German portions. If you are a beginner or intermediate level German language learner, I recommend other short story books than the ones put out by this company to help you learn German. I prefer the Language Guru story and conversation books.
I have reviewed a number of short story language learning books by this publisher, and I am always disappointed in them. While the stories could certainly be helpful for an extensive German language learner, giving one more thing to aid learning German, the other tools provided in the book don't go far enough. I like the vocabulary list and the comprehension questions in German; those are fine. But I don't like that the publisher only included a *summary* of the full German story in English. Honestly, what use is a summary for language learners? A full translation certainly helps more, allowing the student to better appreciate differences in structure and vocabulary. German is particularly difficult to learn in terms of structure, so I think not having a full translation really hampers learning in this case. As an aside, the grammar, punctuation, and usage in the English sections are riddled with errors; I don’t know how far I’d trust the German portions. If you are a beginner or intermediate level German language learner, I recommend other short story books than the ones put out by this company to help you learn German. I prefer the Language Guru story and conversation books.
January 1, 2021
20 short stories to enjoy practicing German. At the end of each story there is a summary in German and in English to help understand the story. There are too some questions to check the reading comprehension, some vocabulary and the answers to the exercises.
This is a great help to improve the level of German you already have.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and I am voluntarily leaving a review.
This is a great help to improve the level of German you already have.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and I am voluntarily leaving a review.
October 18, 2020
Wonderful way to improve your use of the German language. By reading stories in German and practicing the words and reading aloud. Good resource for helping to learn German.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
October 15, 2020
Short stories for German learners they are, and interesting. But the language is too complex for a beginner level. They are more likely in the intermediate level with their complex sentences and rather difficult vocabulary.
Personally I would give these stories to strong readers in the upper B1 to B2 level. For the lower levels there are plenty of graded readers available - but not so many on the intermediate level. So, as a teacher I am glad to have some more short stories available for the upper levels.
The stories themselves are varied in content, very European in the way of not necessarily having an ending or a happy ending. For the intermediate level well written and with nice exercises added.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Personally I would give these stories to strong readers in the upper B1 to B2 level. For the lower levels there are plenty of graded readers available - but not so many on the intermediate level. So, as a teacher I am glad to have some more short stories available for the upper levels.
The stories themselves are varied in content, very European in the way of not necessarily having an ending or a happy ending. For the intermediate level well written and with nice exercises added.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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