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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5457 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 17 of 25 03 February 2012 at 10:39am | IP Logged | |||||
Here is a working version of the above URL: German for Reading Edited by Splog on 03 February 2012 at 10:53am 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5517 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 18 of 25 03 February 2012 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for the link to Karl Sandberg's "German for Reading."
I certainly will enjoy it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5571 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 19 of 25 05 February 2012 at 12:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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Somebody just saved me a 3 figure sum of money, whoever you are:
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5517 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 20 of 25 05 February 2012 at 1:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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I know.
Sandberg's "German for Reading" is ridiculously expensive as an out of print book. I don't know why they don't print his German course but still print his Spanish and French courses, which are much more reasonably priced. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| palfrey Senior Member Canada Joined 5061 days ago 81 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 21 of 25 05 February 2012 at 4:24am | IP Logged | |||||
If you tried downloading the chapter files, you may have noticed that most of them are pdf files, except chapters 14 and 15. But it turns out that these two are also available as pdf's. Just take the address for one of the pdf chapters, say chapter 13, and replace "13" with 14 or 15. To save you the trouble, these should link to the pdf files: Chapter 14, Chapter 15. Btw, with all the praise given to this book, I decided to buy a copy, though it was rather expensive. Then this link appears. D'oh. More evidence that nice guys finish last, I suppose. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5517 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 22 of 25 06 February 2012 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Does anyone know of a good Esperanto course for reading?
I tried translating Gerda Malaperis into English so I could understand what was happening, but I only got to chapter 10 before I got tired of translating it. I have a 1960s TYS Esperanto course but it has no audio. Does anyone have any advice? Edited by Michael K. on 06 February 2012 at 3:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ElBrujo Newbie United States Joined 4496 days ago 29 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 23 of 25 06 February 2012 at 3:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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A big THANK YOU to Michael K. for starting this thread and to nzyyang, splog, and
palfrey for posting the links to the pdf. I've started using Spanish for Reading because of Michael K.'s OP and it's really been going well. Seeing vendors selling German for Reading for upwards of $1000 was really disheartening, and quite frankly, disgusting, as knowledge should not be held captive by dollar-signs. Thanks so much to all who have contributed to this thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6258 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 24 of 25 06 February 2012 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
"Vojaĝo tra Esperanto-lando" by Boris Kolker is a nice collection of excerpts, short stories and poems by important Esperanto writers. It comes with language usage, style and content-related questions. However, it's clearly intended as an intermediate-level course, not suitable for learning Esperanto grammar. In terms of beginner courses, the German-based "Kostenloser Esperanto Kurs is rich in texts and leads up to a high level. http://www.esperanto.de/sprache/kurse/kek/utf8/lec_01.html There is also a German-based textbook called "Tesi la testudo" that features long texts in every lesson. None of these are comparable to "German by Reading" however, and I'm not aware of any other course that focusses as much on reading as that one. Makes me want to write one. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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