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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4533 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes  Studies: German | Message 1 of 14 12 November 2014 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Has any one any experience and recommendations for German Graded Readers? I am especially interested in books that are suitable for A1 and A2 level speakers.
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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 14 12 November 2014 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have used this series:
http://www.blackcat-cideb.com/79-german-catalogue?p=2 The books usually consist of a CD and a graded book - The green banded books = A1, blue = A2 and yellow = B1. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3 of 14 12 November 2014 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Langenscheidt has four series of Deutsch als Fremdsprache books, most of which are available with or without a mini-CD. I have one in the Felix & Theo series, and one in the Klara & Theo series. The Felix & Theo series is clearly more geared towards adult learners, but both are pretty good.
http://www.klett-langenscheidt.de/Hoeren_und_Sprechen/Deutsc h_als_Fremdsprache/9337 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4533 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 4 of 14 12 November 2014 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks. What level are they aimed at? A2? B1? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 5 of 14 12 November 2014 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
They rate the books by the hours of study completed, e.g. 50 hours, 100 hours or 150 hours, but in effect they range from A1 to A2. There is one book in the Felix & Theo series which has been incorporated into a "Trainingslektüre Zertifikat Deutsch B1". In addition to the book and CD, they have a set of related PDFs which can be downloaded for free. Link to the book Link to the PDFs 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4082 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 6 of 14 12 November 2014 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Also the dual language reader series from May:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginners-Bilingual-Speakers-English -Readers-ebook/dp/B003Z0CZJQ Free audio from their site. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3907 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 7 of 14 13 November 2014 at 2:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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Check out books by Andre Klein. He writes a whole series of German readers and I like them a lot. I own Cafe in Berlin and Die Dritte Hand and I felt they definitely helped my reading and my vocabulary; once I go full steam with my German again I will buy all of his other books, they're cheap too.
I'm not great on gauging the CEFR levels but I would say all of the ones I have seen are definitely in the range of A1-A2 and I bet he has some higher level stuff too. Also, if you can get your hands on a tablet/Kindle (if you don't already), purchase the books for Kindle; you can simply click on the words you don't know and it gives you the translation (PatrickWilkin enlightened me to this and it works great). I believe you can get a cheap Kindle for around $70, maybe less now. Edited by soclydeza85 on 13 November 2014 at 2:39am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4533 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 8 of 14 13 November 2014 at 8:36am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks everyone. Your suggestions are really helpful. HTLAL is just an amazing community!
I just noticed that the cheap Kindle's with a cursor -- which I think are much better than touchscreens if you want to look up a lot of words -- have disappeared from the Amazon.de. You can still get them on Ebay, but I have no idea for how long. I'm thinking of buying a spare for 40 Euros now as I really find this model helpful. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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