Short Stories in German for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn German the fun way! (Foreign Language Graded Reader Series)

Useful, entertaining, comprehensible and informative with little knowledge of German at start! Great!!!

Have just taken up learning German again 30 years after doing my A-Level. Whilst I have remembered much, I've also forgotten a lot of the basics, so this book was a real asset. The stories are all 3 chapters long, each chapter between 3 and 6 pages (they get longer through the course of the book). All the stories are fairly simplistic (people getting lost, hiking, travelling, pirates, vikings etc.) but that's not the point - its the ease of reading them and remembering things that counts.There are highlighted words with a matching vocab list at the end of each chapter. The recommendation to read each chapter through once without trying to battle with every word, then read a second time and use the vocab if necessary, is good advice. Also, many words are repeated frequently, which helps with memorising new vocab.For me, I noticed a fundamental shift in my reading about halfway through the book: I stopped translating everything into English in my head when I was reading and just read the German text and immediately understood it and kept reading. It was a lightbulb moment when I realised what I was doing.Very easy to just read a chapter or two before bed. Strongly recommend this book to those with some German knowledge but looking for noticeable improvement over a short period.

Excellent reader for beginner, makes you learn by forcing you to do the translations for yourself. And the stories are so gripping that you will want to do this. It helps if you have good eDictiionary for word lookup. German to German dictionary is included. Would have been five stars if German to English dictiionary were also included.

I enjoy reading the stories in this book, which are written in an easy to read style with lists of words explained after each chapter. I am conversant in German, but this book helps me to improve my grammar and increase my vocabulary.

Good read

Bought this for my Granddaughter who is studying German. She said she found the book really useful and enjoys being able to work her way through the bookWill buy another

I quite like the stories, but it's rather sad for a book that's aimed at learners to contain so many mistakes. I only noticed them while following along with the audio...

Just bought and downloaded Short Stories in German. So far has a quick read of first story. A year ago I bought Short Stories in Dutch. The first story is the same as the German one except a few details like e.g. Amsterdam is substituted for Cologne . I'm not sure how it will help or hinder my learning of German or Dutch , but this is worth pointing out to multi language learners.Overall these books seem impenetrable at first but give a good sense of achievement when you begin to understand the story without grinding through other language learning media and defiantly way quicker method than Duolingo.