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| Syed Bilingual Diglot Newbie Pakistan Joined 4613 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, Urdu* | Message 1 of 4 17 May 2012 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
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Hello,
I was wondering is there any book list available on this forum for someone who have just started learning German. A list starting off from toddler or children books and working its way down to more mature learner. As I cannot afford to visit Germany and do not have anyone in my circle who is fluent or knows any German, this would help me immersing myself in the language.(i love reading btw) At this stage newspapers are hard for me and I thought someone here might recommend me good children literature in German to read. Thanks for taking time out to reply 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6215 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes  Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish | Message 2 of 4 17 May 2012 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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I read a lot of fairy tails as child. We had also Momo, Jim Knopf, Urmel aus dem Eis ...
But I don't know how hard there are too read. Do you know the Gutenberg Project? Here is the German children bookshelf http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/DE_Kinderbuch_%28B%C3%BCcherre gal%29 Another website is http://www.lektueren.com there you find easy reader sortied by GER. Choose "Deutsch als Fremdsprache" on the left side and then your level A1/A2/B1/B2 Click on a title and you find a ISB-Number. I don't know if you could order the book in your country, but you could try it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Syed Bilingual Diglot Newbie Pakistan Joined 4613 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, Urdu* | Message 3 of 4 18 May 2012 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you for the URL's Mareike... I will look up your suggestions.
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| yong321 Groupie United States yong321.freeshe Joined 5533 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 4 21 May 2012 at 5:44am | IP Logged |
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I found a 1940 book, "Bilderlesebuch Fur Anfänger" in the local library. It has plenty of interesting children's stories. The good and bad thing is that other than the first two stories, all the text is in Fractur font. It's good to me because I study German for the purpose of studying history, so reading text in the outdated font is good practice for me.
about the Fractur font: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur "[in] 1941, Martin Bormann [a Nazi official] issued a circular to all public offices which declared Fraktur (and its corollary, the Sütterlin-based handwriting) to be Judenlettern (Jewish letters) and prohibited their further use. It has been speculated by German historian Albert Kapr that the régime had realized that Fraktur would inhibit communication in the territories occupied during World War II." 1 person has voted this message useful |
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