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| Nieng Zhonghan Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 3670 days ago 108 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Japanese*, Spanish, Galician Studies: Finnish, Icelandic, Armenian, Mongolian Studies: Old English, Russian, English, German, Korean, Mandarin | Message 73 of 225 04 January 2015 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
I would like to try reading few books this year in German as well, despite being beginner. Although I am far away from reading right now, I like to gather as much information as I can to reach my small and realistic goals at the end of the year. In the following link, FluentU has commented on their 15 books for beginners: beginners/">http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/great-german- childrens-books-for- beginners/ You may also check: selIds=64&viewIds=3&rnum=1&view=cover&sort=match&location=ev erywhere&pgct=36&match=all &ilangcode=en&ilang=English&text=&lang=German&search=OK">htt p://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/AdvancedSearchCategory? selIds=64&viewIds=3&rnum=1&view=cover&sort=match&location=ev erywhere&pgct=36&match=all &ilangcode=en&ilang=English&text=&lang=German&search=OK http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/DE_Kinderbuch_(B%C3%BCcherrega l) http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/childrenpages/German1.h tml http://www.klett-langenscheidt.com/Language_Learning_through _Reading/11588 subject%5B%5D=GER§ion%5B%5D=m4&rpp=30&offset=30">http:// www.europeanbookshop.com/results.php? subject%5B%5D=GER§ion%5B%5D=m4&rpp=30&offset=30 On this website, you may change the “age group” and search by yourself, accordingly to your taste. I suppose they will not give you more than 10 books, but still you can have some insight about what kind of books are available. Assuming that you are living in Europe, there might be some good libraries nearby your place or even bookstores selling books in German. There are some Children’s books publishers, if this helps you finding good books: http://www.new-books-in-german.com/english/283/133/129002/li ste9.html German.com/english/283/133/129002/liste9.html">http://www.ne w-books-in- german.com/english/283/133/129002/liste9.html I am not sure if you are willing to borrow a book from a library or buying it. You can take a look on what is available on the market. http://www.buecherkinder.de/ bilderb%C3%BCcher/b?ie=UTF8&node=280652">http://www.amazon.d e/kinderbuch- kinderb%C3%BCcher-jugendb%C3%BCcher- bilderb%C3%BCcher/b?ie=UTF8&node=280652 http://www.kinderbuch-couch.de/ http://www.ravensburger.de/leser/bilderbuch/ab-2-jahre/index .html There many other websites. If you are okay with illegal resources, there is one torrent you can download 88 German Graded Readers at A1 or A2 level. Even if you don’t like reading on the computer and you are against illegal resources, you can still take a look on the contents before buying it. I also would like to hear some suggestions from team Rätsel. :D Edited by Nieng Zhonghan on 04 January 2015 at 12:19pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ramblurr Newbie United States binaryelysium.com Joined 4339 days ago 30 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), German | Message 74 of 225 04 January 2015 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Via Diva, are you going to update the main roster with us new arrivals?
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4233 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 75 of 225 04 January 2015 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Surely. I wanted to wait for late sign-ups, but 'tis the time to update.
g-bod, I can only recommend Stefan Zweig, don't think he's easy though, but at least his novellas are small. If you don't like adapted books (and there are zillions of them - yup, I overestimate) even despite some of them including exercises, better just take something you have read in English and know good enough. Edited by Via Diva on 04 January 2015 at 5:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ramblurr Newbie United States binaryelysium.com Joined 4339 days ago 30 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), German | Message 76 of 225 04 January 2015 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Many of those Graded German readers can be legally bought from the various publishers sites.
You can get the EPUB version too (which isn't in the torrent) for easy reading on an e-reader w/ a popup dictionary. The Hueber ones are reasonably priced around 5EUR each: https://shop.hueber.de/de/sprache-lernen/deutsch-als-fremdsp rache.html The Lex:tra ebooks can be found on Amazon US and DE, search for "lex:tra" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| carlyd Groupie United States Joined 3988 days ago 94 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 77 of 225 05 January 2015 at 10:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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January Challenge: I tried to do it in German, but other than discussing Herr Clark's children and my Duolingo sentences ("The fly is important") I can't really say much.
I am probably still level A0--studying since early December. My goal, by the end of this year is to converse/read/write in simple basic German. I'm on a worldwide social (crafting) site and there's a number of primarily-German-language groups that I'd like to participate in. Currently I use Bing on the posts and am afraid to reply. So that's my level and my goal. Resources and evaluations: German Made Simple by Arnold Leitner. Recommended as a beginner book by another member--it's a good very basic introduction. It would be better if it came with a CD, but it has lots of exercises to do. The Everything Learning German Book by Edward Swick. Runs pretty much in tandem with the first book, has a CD that pronounces every new word introduced. Not very many exercises. The two books together work great. Sage und Schreibe by Christian Fandrych. Written totally in German. I'm working very slowly through this--would possibly be better with a tutor that could direct me. This book has the regular German, then also lists, if necessary, Standard Austrian, Standard Swiss, Southern German, and "printed" (like in the newspaper?) German. Klipp und Klar. also by Christian Fandrych. This is a grammar book, also totally in German. Deutsch mach Spass! by Brigitte S. Dubiel. This is a German grammar, written in English, with cartoons and is great. It is billed as a review, or for someone who already has some German knowledge. Books for Reading: Andre Klein books. He has several, in book and for Kindle. They are written in beginner German with extensive word lists and phrase translation. Perfect for a very new learner. First German Reader by Elisabeth May. These are bilingual, starting out at a kid's level, but I wouldn't call them children's books. There are 3 volumes at least for the First Reader and then several for the Second Reader. Available both as book and for Kindle. At the very beginning they are really boring ("the hotel has many windows") but they do get better. Short Stories in Plain Spoken German by Belinda Depp. Bilingual, adult high-beginner level, really good stories. The first one was a little scary! The book states that audio for the entire book is available for free online, but I haven't looked yet. (www.lppbooks.com) If anyone has used Sage und Schreibe or Klipp und Klar I'd appreciate your opinions of the books. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ramblurr Newbie United States binaryelysium.com Joined 4339 days ago 30 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), German | Message 78 of 225 07 January 2015 at 1:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the book recommendations.
I've wanted to start a list of L-R resources for German for awhile, and your list provided the impetus to get me started. Here it is: Listening-Reading Resources for German It includes any material that has: 1) German Audio 2) German Text 3) English/or other translation If other Rätsel members want to help add to it, we'd all be grateful I'm sure! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ramblurr Newbie United States binaryelysium.com Joined 4339 days ago 30 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), German | Message 79 of 225 08 January 2015 at 12:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Woo! First language log of 2015 posted. Better late than never...
Study log 07 Jan 2015 TL;DR: Studied 5 hours yesterday. Had some issues with Deutsch im Blick that make it unlikely I'll continue to use it as a primary textbook. I also watched Das Finstere Tal with my partner after the recommendation by a Rätsel member here with a fine list of German language movies. It is a great suspenseful Western-type film set in a rural valley in the Alps. I didn't understand much, not least of all because the dialect was heavy Tyrolean, but it was a great, eerie movie. Light on dialogue, as the OP mentioned, so don't watch it purely for language practice. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4532 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 80 of 225 08 January 2015 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Glad you liked it! It's definitely not a beginners movie, given it's heavy dialect, but definitely cool to see such a good transposition of the Western genre into Austrian Alps. You're in Europe now aren't you? Do you have access to much German language films? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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