Ein ausgezeichneter erster wirklicher deutscher Roman
An A level challenge based on a vocabulary of approximately 600 words, Easy Readers has created aEin ausgezeichneter erster wirklicher deutscher Roman
An A level challenge based on a vocabulary of approximately 600 words, Easy Readers has created an interesting, challenging read appropriate to second year students of the German language. The difficulty level at which the publishers have set this abridged and modified version of Erich Kästner's classic children's novel is perfect. The first couple of chapters seem heavy going indeed and the easily discouraged student, forced to resort to a dictionary on numerous occasions might be tempted to set the book aside as simply beyond his or her capabilities. But the more persevering student soon discovers (as I did to my surprised delight) that he or she is reading (slowly, to be sure) but without the assistance of any dictionary at all and relying solely on context to determine the meaning of never before seen words and brand new colloquial German sentence structures.
What's even better is that DAS DOPPELTE LOTTCHEN, as the basis for the well-known English story, THE PARENT TRAP is a REAL story with real emotions and real outcomes. I found that I was enjoying reading the story for its own sake ... NOT just because I was assigned the reading as part of a German class.
Pitched at a level slightly beyond a primer, Einstein und das tote Kaninchen (Einstein and the Dead Rabbit) could beEin leichter Krimi für Jugendliche
Pitched at a level slightly beyond a primer, Einstein und das tote Kaninchen (Einstein and the Dead Rabbit) could be called a very light mystery for very young German readers. Of course, I wasn't reading it because I'm a young German reader. I bought this as a souvenir when I was in Vienna, because I'm a beginning German reader.
Albert Neumann, nicknamed Einstein by all his friends, raises rabbits. When he finds his favourite rabbit, Mister X, dead on the eve of the biggest and most important competition in the area, Einstein is convinced that poison is the culprit. He also thinks that his neighbour, Mr Feldmann, a fellow breeder and the only real competition for Mr X, is behind the nasty deed. Einstein and his close friends set out to prove their case.
Albert Neumann, wer bei allen seinen Freunde Einstein heißt, züchtet Kaninchen. Sein Lieblingskaninchen, Mister X, ist tot und am nächste Samstag ist die große Ausstellung! An der Sache ist doch was faul. Einstein wisst, dass da etwas dahinter steckt. Hat sein Nachbar, Herr Feldmann, Mister X vergiftet?
I wish I could say that I read this beguiling little mystery without benefit of my trusty German-English dictionary but, sadly, my skills are not at that level ... yet! But with the help of great books like this one, I've no doubt that I'll get there soon enough. I had a lot of fun reading the story at the surface level and attempting to puzzle my way through a sprinkling of colloquial German idioms such as :
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