André Klein's German Learning Journey: Café in Berlin - Stories to Enhance Your Language Skills

B. Diniz: Learn German With Stories, a série... apesar de ter sempre essa recomendação em tela por parte da Amazon já tinha a curiosidade ainda em adquirir um livro ou mesmo uma amostra. Depois de ter lido uma certa quantidade de livros na língua e ter adquirido uma certa proficiência em leitura no nível A1 e também no nível A2 (algo em torno de ter dominado um nível de iniciante) resolvi procurar audiolivros na plataforma.
Na primeira busca mais uma indicação em audiobook, mas o livro não possuia áudio disponível. O que fiz adquirindo pelo Audible, também da Amazon.
E quanta surpresa ao ler o livro e escutar o seu áudio.
A história é bem simples, acho que mesmo para o iniciante (e que tenha iniciativa) em usar um dicionário como auxílio ou o próprio que tem no final de cada caput. porém em inglês. fará um grande avanço no treinamento da sua leitura.
Mesmo sendo simples, a história tem um humor que eu acho peculiar em alemão.
Alem disso a história se passa no dia a dia de um estudante estrangeiro que vive na Alemanha, mais precisamente em Berlim.
O próprio título do livro é uma ironia. Uma ironia com a linda jovem sueca Ingrid que o nosso...

Brazil on Aug 17, 2023

Jose: Amazing book, easy to read and good glossary of the keywords!

Germany on Aug 10, 2023

Mr. Anonymous: This book is great practice.

United States on Aug 04, 2023

Sdrani V.Sdrani V.: This is the perfect book for a beginner learner , that wants to understand simple stories with useful words and phrases.
It has 10 short stories, with vocabulary in English and German and with exercises at the end of every story. It’s lightweight and you can carry it, on the bus or the underground, so you have no excuse that you have no time to practice.
Totally recommended

Germany on Jul 17, 2023

Mayte: Me gusta el contenido y el vocabulario más importante.

Spain on May 05, 2023

RJ Magoon: Bought this on kindle as a beginner German +/- A2 level learner. I LOVE everything about this. The chapter length is not overly-long, the story is actually interesting and compelling (which is difficult to find in beginner language readers), and the vocab in each chapter is relevant.

I enjoy the Ollie Richards books as well, but find this easier to digest (due to the length of the chapters) and more interesting. I will definitely be getting more from this series when I'm finished. Thanks!

United States on Jan 01, 2023

Tyler K. Greenberg: I am an advanced beginner or low-level intermediate German learner. I am loving this series of books. I am currently finishing book number 7. They are really excellent. The first book starts off much easier with much shorter chapters. Then as you progress through the short books, the chapters get longer and more advanced words and sentences. Each chapter ends with just about any vocabulary word that you need to look up, right there for you. But I also read on the kindle so I can just touch the word and the translation and pronunciation pop up. The story is fun and entertaining. I do feel like my German comprehension is improving as is my vocabulary. I always read out loud so that my brain/speech are also actively involved. I am looking forward to finishing this series and then beginning the authors more advanced detective series starting with Mord Am Morgen (Murder in the Morning). In the end, I am very pleased with this series and how can you go wrong for about $3/book? Highly recommended.

United States on Nov 06, 2022

Alejandra Gabriela Salas Flores: Lo unico que me gustaria es que tuviera mas imagenes de Berlin

Mexico on Aug 10, 2022

Aucaman: I am extremely impressed with this collection. Through the 10 books the writer took me from almost zero German to a pretty good level of reading comprehension. The books follow a carefully graded progression in terms of vocabulary and grammatical patterns. Each book centers around a different city in Germany, and thus the reader learns the most salient features, cultural aspects and language peculiarities of places like Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, etc.

Then there's the story line: Dino's adventures in each city are not only engaging but funny. As the reader reaches book 6, the language gets a bit more complex and the adventures also become, at least for this reader, more interesting. The chain of events slowly start introducing some more serious socio-political situations resulting from Germany’s past and present. Dino’s girlfriend, for example, works as a reporter in a refugee camp. They also help Fadiyah, a Syrian refugee make it from Sicily to Munich where her brother works.

I also bought the 10 books read by the author. That proved to be invaluable help while learning how to pronounce what I was reading. I normally listen to the author’s reading...

United States on Apr 25, 2020

Dennis K. Loy: This book fit my needs perfectly. The stories are simple, but reasonably interesting. The vocabulary was generally down the middle of the fairway for my level of skill - which is hard to describe, but consists of a year of college German 40 years ago, a couple years of community ed spoken language classes 30 years ago and off-and-on self study, largely for reading comprehension purposes, the past few years. The text is in one sense "over-glossed" - more definitions are provided than I need (I needed maybe 10% of them). But I still found that helpful, partly as a matter of review of something I should have known or once knew and forgot, but also on the basis that my "10%" might be different that someone else's. I also liked what I thought to be a high proportion of idiomatic usages, or even slang, in a loose sense of the word, as a result of the stories being mostly dialogue and only a minority of narrative passages. New (glossed) words are with high frequency used in dialogues where you have a good probability of making a decent guess of the meaning (just we all did when first learning to read English). Also, the author appears to me to make good use of compound words where the...

United States on Jul 14, 2016