Short Stories in German for Beginners (Teach Yourself Short Stories)

The stories in this book are really varied, not boring at all. They are quite short and you see your progress. If you have an e-book, it will definitely help you in understanding new vocabulary, since you won't have to spend time manually translating the text.I will definitely re-read German Stories for Beginners it in a few months and I'm going to buy the next Intermediate edition.In conclusion, I'd recommend the Beginner edition of this book to people whose German is between A2 and B1. Good luck and enjoy reading!

Exactly what I was looking for. Ecellent for brushing up my German

Once you get over the fear of not having to know/understand EVERY German word on the page, you relax and discover that you can figure out a lot of the entertaining little short stories. I have taken a few German classes in the past and still do Duolingo German, but at first this book stymied me. I don't know how a person who knows nothing about Germanic languages would fair with this book (and it's says it's a Beginner Level), but I am enjoying it. Each story is 3-4 pages long, with some words emboldened. Those words are in a small glossary at the back of each story. Also, at the end of each short story is a 5 question multiple-choice quiz. The answers to the quizzes are way in the back of the book. There is also a somewhat more extensive Glossary in the back of the book.For me, at my level, I appreciate learning the simple past tense of verbs, by reading! And the stories are entertaining! I mostly learned only past participles in German class. I purchased the French and Danish books, too. I have also taken some French in my past, decades ago, so I will probably do okay deciphering the French stories. I have never taken Danish, but it being somewhat Germanic, will muddle through that, hopefully. I love languages, so I am driven! I do my family's genealogy and am of German and Danish and Swiss descent, so these books are fun!

This book is for people who have a basic understanding of German sentence structure, pronouns, and words. If you're just going into this book with no previous knowledge you will have a bad time. I highly suggest this book if you're pairing it with another learning book/dictionary as it offers easy to read German and a quiz at the end of each chapter that isn't "fill in the blank with the word from the sentence" like I've found most others do. It asks you questions (In German) about the chapter and what happened in it. There are about 3 chapters per story so you're able to follow characters from one chapter to the next.

I've been using Duolingo for years and recently finished the German course. Someone told me once that a great way to keep up on language skills was to get children's books in that language and that has proven to be beneficial. I saw this book though and decided to give it a shot. Glad I did. These books are a great way to not only extend but to enhance my learning as there are words in here that I didn't learn via Duolingo and it has a glossary for any word in bold. I loved this book so much that I started getting them in the other languages that I am currently learning. I definitely recommend.

Great for keeping up with expressions for travel.

I love that this book doesnt have that much complecated word, i mean its for beginners. I do love that the stories are very catching. I have learned quite new words, and i feel i have improved my german reading this method. I do like to write on my books and this one is no exception. I write y highlight the word i dont know. I would definitely buy the intermediate book from the same author

The series of short stories is varied in setting and genre. It was good to read and practice my German again - though I still needed to read most stories with a dictionary on the side for a few words. I was happy with the book for the language I learned, the stories and plots were a secondary feature and were generally straightforward settings for expanding knowledge of the language.