Category: Stories

Games

German Gamebooks For German Learners

A Brief History of Gamebooks Gamebooks & (Language) Learning Where to find good gamebooks? Free Online Gamebooks in Your Browser A Fantasy Trilogy for German Learners A Brief History of Gamebooks Gamebooks (“Spielbücher” in German), or “choose your own adventure” books, as they’re often called, were all the rage in the 70s and 80s. The…

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5 German Short Stories For Beginners

How To Find German Short Stories Which Are Simple But Not Boring Die Küchenuhr, by Wolfgang Borchert Der zufriedene Fischer – Eine Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral, by Heinrich Böll Der große Wildenberg, by Siegfried Lenz Skorpion, by Christa Reinig Auf der Flucht, by Wolfdietrich Schnurre Even More German Short Stories for Beginners There are…

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How to Learn German With Stories

  German seems to be very popular, these days. Whether it’s the obnoxious “How German sounds compared to other languages” meme (it should actually be called: How German sounds when you are shouting) or the raving popularity of the Nein Quarterly, German seems to be in vogue. And yet, as Adam Fletcher pointed out: “Every…

Stories

Your Brain On Storytelling: 3 Reasons Why Stories Help Us Learn Languages

“The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser once stated. We are storytelling creatures. We use narrative to make sense of both ancient history and our daily experience. Every culture has its own set of stories which informs our understanding of the world and our place in it, just like we…

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How To Get Free Kindle Books In German

Free Kindle books to learn German: Classic Literature Learn German on Kindle With Modern Bestsellers Use Your Kindle To Learn German Through Storytelling Use A Dictionary To Help You Learn German With Kindle If you have a Kindle e-reader or the Kindle app on your smartphone or tablet, you can use them to learn German…