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| sofiapofia Pentaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4943 days ago 88 posts - 103 votes  Speaks: Swedish, Hindi, Portuguese, English*, Marathi Studies: German, Danish, Sanskrit, Icelandic | Message 1 of 76 04 April 2012 at 6:53am | IP Logged |
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I am at B1 level in German and want to improve my German over the next couple of
months. I was planning on starting to read books in German and thought it might be fun if there were other people who were starting out with reading German literature and if anyone was interested in forming a sort of intermmediate German reading group. We can discuss the problems we face tackling German literature, suggest books to read and most importantly remain motivated to read German! I'm going to read one book, possibly Der Verlorene by Hans-Ulrich Teichel, from this list over the next three weeks. Günter Grass, Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand Heinrich Böll, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Peter Handke, Kaspar Thomas Bernhard, Heldenplatz Monika Maron, Pawels Briefe Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Der Verlorene EDIT: Reading Der Frauenmörder. Avaible free from amazon.co.uk/.de Edited by sofiapofia on 05 April 2012 at 11:24pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 76 04 April 2012 at 2:17pm | IP Logged |
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That's such a cool idea! Anyone wants to read good old HP together? or Das Parfum?
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| Ikarias Triglot Newbie Spain multilinguae.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6033 days ago 29 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1 Studies: ItalianA2, DutchA2, FrenchA2, Mandarin | Message 3 of 76 04 April 2012 at 2:19pm | IP Logged |
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I´m in!
I think it´s a wonderful idea, especially for us who are more or less the same level and need to build up our vocabulary. I was going to start with "Momo" by Michael Ende ^^ Regards! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4690 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 4 of 76 04 April 2012 at 5:33pm | IP Logged |
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I'm in for reading anything that's free to download on Kindle, since that's what I'm doing already. I find the built-in dictionary, while sometimes difficult (it's DE-DE, not DE-EN) really helps since it's so quick to use.
BTW, anyone know how long until the DE/FR/etc. HP eBooks are available? pottermore recently said "coming very soon" (I just checked and the whole site is down for reworking). I may rather go for French HP, and stick to original German literature myself at this point. As a suggestion though, it might be interesting and instructive to analyze the ways that the translators reinterpret and rework things, like names and incantations and the like. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6945 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 5 of 76 05 April 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged |
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But how will this work? So far it looks like everyone wants to read a different book.
(My own recommendation is "Der Frauenmörder" by Hugo Bettauer - it is very popular and highly rated on Amazon.de, is not long, and it is in public domain, so one can download it for free from any Amazon or gutenberg.spiegel.de. The literary quality also seems high, despite the light genre.) Edited by frenkeld on 05 April 2012 at 6:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5884 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 6 of 76 05 April 2012 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
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I would like to join and also believe that this would work better if more people could agree to read the same books at the same time.
From the previously suggested books, I prefer "Der Frauenmörder", "Momo" and "Der Verlorene", in this order. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| onurdolar Diglot Groupie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4654 days ago 98 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 7 of 76 05 April 2012 at 10:41am | IP Logged |
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Very interesting topic; I will start reading Der Frauenmörder too then when i can find time ( currently very busy with work and studies ) and follow this topic for helpful tips.
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4690 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 8 of 76 05 April 2012 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
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Well, after three straight posts about it, I found "Der Frauenmörder" on amazon.com as downloaded the kindle version for free. No promises yet that I'll read it, but it's a start.
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