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How hard is it to read Hermann Hesse book
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Syed
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18 May 2012 at 1:20pm | IP Logged

A Big Thank You to everyone who took time out to write a comment for my question. I am
most grateful.

Agree @ IronFist

@Rameau... You are right about getting too far ahead of myself advice...
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Quinn
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18 May 2012 at 6:43pm | IP Logged

Being able to read Hesse in his native language is a very admirable and worthwhile goal and one you could definitely achieve with the right preparation.

I agree with @geoffw that if reading German literature is your main goal, you'll probably want to work through a text-based course. Pimsleur is great, but it's really designed to get you speaking and understanding basic conversations, not reading literature.
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Syed
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18 May 2012 at 7:26pm | IP Logged

Thanks for your comment Quinn..Please suggest me a text base course.

Thanks in advance
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geoffw
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18 May 2012 at 7:32pm | IP Logged

Syed wrote:

Thanks for your comment Quinn..Please suggest me a text base course.

Thanks in advance

I'm not Quinn, and I haven't used any of these really, but the common choices mentioned around here would be the Assimil, Teach Yourself, and Colloquial series, though plenty others are out there, as well.
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Syed
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18 May 2012 at 8:06pm | IP Logged

Thanks for the suggestions geoffw.

:)
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Heriotza
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19 May 2012 at 1:50am | IP Logged

Syed wrote:

Thanks for your comment Quinn..Please suggest me a text base course.

Thanks in advance

Assimil German Without Toil, the old version. Nothing better.

Edited by Heriotza on 19 May 2012 at 1:51am

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