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| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6656 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes  Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 17 of 22 22 August 2008 at 11:16am | IP Logged | ||
I agree that "Struwwelpeter" sounds a bit antiquated, but the language in "Max und Moritz" is surprisingly modern! Maybe that's because Busch has been widely read ever since, so his language somehow "survived" until today. Anyway, it's a great text to read for learners (as are all of Busch's works). And is "flicken" really outdated? I use it as a colloquial form of "reparieren" (in particular clothes) and I don't think I'm the only one left... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6438 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 18 of 22 22 August 2008 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Felix Salten: Bambi
Johanna Spyri's books (Heidi) Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer by Waldemar Bonsels Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Edited by reineke on 22 August 2008 at 2:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6076 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 19 of 22 23 August 2008 at 2:42am | IP Logged | ||
ooh, I didn't know it was still used. I'd say "erneuern". Good, dann hab ich was gelernt! :) I'm still not a fan of that style of black humor and I'd think that the lyrical way that it's written and the use of the Präterium would be rather difficult for learners. I don't remember what it's like to be learning German so I guess I can't guage very well. Now that I think about it, it'd be interesting just to ask... Here's Max and Moritz up for review: Jiwon and others: what are your impressions of the stories? Are they difficult? Interesting? Good for learning German? I don't want to change the thread so if you want to pm me, that'd be ok too ;) Edited by Sunja on 23 August 2008 at 2:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6427 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 20 of 22 23 August 2008 at 12:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've read the Vorwort and der erster Streich. It looks really good for learners. The story is quite simple, and the illustrations make it much easier to follow the plot. The only problem that I can see here is that the plot might not be that appealing to older people. But I'm all for it. Although I'm 17, I still love fairy tales and all. :)
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| alfajuj Diglot Senior Member Taiwan Joined 6202 days ago 121 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Taiwanese, French | Message 21 of 22 24 August 2008 at 12:47am | IP Logged | ||
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I've found this website which has stories by the Grimm Brothers with German and English in parallel. http://www.fln.vcu.edu/grimm/grimm_menu.html That should be perfect for German learners. It's from the Virginia Commonwealth University department of languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aliebe Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5826 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 22 of 22 03 December 2008 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you could read Momo and get it pretty well---you could break away from young adult and try something like Homo Faber by Max Frisch---it was my first book I got through as an exchange student and was so shocked that I could read and understand a book which had adults as its target audience.
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