Learn German with Stories: Karneval in Köln – 10 Short Stories for Beginners
By André Klein
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In this follow-up to “Ferien in Frankfurt”, Dino finds himself in Cologne, the carnival capital of Germany and home of the Cologne Cathedral. Struggling with tacky accommodations and an empty wallet, he stumbles over a gig which promises to be a walk down easy street. But before he knows it, the carnival begins and he’s faced with an onslaught of bewildering customs, an inebriated four-legged friend and sudden downpours of candy.
Explore Cologne’s colorful carnival tradition, learn about local sights and sounds, and improve your German effortlessly along the way!
This book is designed to help beginners make the leap from studying isolated words and phrases to reading (and enjoying) naturally flowing German texts. Using simplified sentence structures and a very basic vocabulary, this collection of short stories is carefully crafted to allow even novice learners to appreciate and understand the intricacies of coherent German speech. Each chapter comes with a complete German-English dictionary, with a special emphasis on collocative phrases (high frequency word combinations), short sentences and expressions.
By working with these “building blocks” instead of just single words, learners can accelerate their understanding and active usage of new material and make the learning process more fluid and fun.
André Klein
André Klein was born in Germany, grew up in Sweden and Thailand and currently lives in Israel. He has been teaching languages for more than 15 years and is the author of various short stories, picture books and non-fiction works in English and German.
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Learn German with Stories - André Klein
Learn German with Stories: Karneval in Köln – 10 Short Stories for Beginners
© 2014, LearnOutLive.com
Smashwords Edition
All text & illustrations by André Klein,
except cover art: Café Restaurant Rheinberg, 1897 (PD)
and General der Roten Funken in Köln, 1824 (PD)
First published on March 12th, 2014 as ebook Edition
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Introduction
In this follow-up to Ferien in Frankfurt
, Dino finds himself in Cologne, the carnival capital of Germany and home of the Cologne Cathedral. Struggling with tacky accommodations and an empty wallet, he stumbles over a gig which promises to be a walk down easy street. But before he knows it, the carnival begins and he’s faced with an onslaught of bewildering customs, an inebriated four-legged friend and sudden downpours of candy.
Explore Cologne’s colorful carnival tradition, learn about local sights and sounds, and improve your German effortlessly along the way!
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This book is designed to help beginners make the leap from studying isolated words and phrases to reading (and enjoying) naturally flowing German texts.
Using simplified sentence structures and a very basic vocabulary, this collection of short stories is carefully crafted to allow even novice learners to appreciate and understand the intricacies of coherent German speech.
Each chapter comes with a complete German-English dictionary, with a special emphasis on collocative phrases (high frequency word combinations), short sentences and expressions.
By working with these building blocks
instead of just single words, learners can accelerate their understanding and active usage of new material and make the learning process more fluid and fun.
How To Read This Book
Before we start, we should acknowledge that there will be many unknown words in the following stories and that there are, in fact, various ways to deal with this very common problem for language learners of all ages and stages.
1. If you want to get the most out of these stories, you’ll have to establish some kind of Lesefluss (reading flow). You might be reading quickly or slowly, it doesn’t matter – as long as you keep on reading and allow context and continuity to clear your questions.
2. Furthermore, important or difficult words (and short phrases) are appended to each chapter with an English translation for quick look-ups.
3. If you’re reading this book on an e-reader or tablet, you can get instant translations by clicking/tapping on the word. To find out if your device supports this feature and how to enable it, please consult your manual or customer support.
4. As a final option we recommend using a good German-English online dictionary on your computer or mobile device while reading the following stories.
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