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German Short Stories for Beginners

By: My Daily German
Narrated by: David Greiwe, Markus Kasanmascheff
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Summary

Improve your German reading, pronunciation, and listening skills. Make learning new vocabulary so much easier with 10 fun and engaging German stories. 

Reading and listening to short stories is an effective and enjoyable method of learning German. 

For those of you who can't just slip away from life, travel to Germany, and immerse yourself in the language in order to learn it, this is your solution! Listening to native-spoken German stories is the next best thing. 

You have at your fingertips the audiobook that allows you to: 

  • Gain a greater vocabulary that you can use immediately, every day. You will add 1,500+ German words and expressions to your repertoire through the encounter of descriptive sentences and casual conversations woven throughout the stories.
  • Sharpen your comprehension of the spoken word by listening to a native German speaker. 
  • Learn how to pronounce German words properly.
  • Familiarize yourself with a wide range of grammar structures and put them to use today.
  • Avoid the monotonous task of memorizing grammar rules. How awesome is that?! 

Each story is recorded by a native German speaker at a natural speed for learners to understand what is being said. 

All stories are written using vocabulary that you could easily use in your day-to-day conversations.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2017 My Daily German (P)2017 My Daily German

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Definitely worthwhile

When I started listening to this audio-book I was slightly put out, since I haven't studied German in over ten years now. After a short while however, things really started to come together. After about half an hour I actually started to begin building up a decent picture of the stories, first by picking out the key words and then by inferring some that I hadn't heard before. I was actually very impressed, I thought I'd all but lost my initially limited knowledge of the language, but the stories are structured in such away to make them very accessible. I'm not sure how somebody with zero initial understanding of the language would cope, but i'm by no means conversational and this was definitely beneficial to me.

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Great audiobook or beginners

Interesting and clear audio which is very easy for the beginners like me to understand German. Since I am new starter I have taken print out of all the chapters which helped me to understand well. Speaker was very slow and I felt comfortable and easy to learn. Chapters are well organized with proper pronunciation. Repeating the words and recap helped a lot in memorizing. When compared with websites and books I felt audio version as the best one.

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German made easy!

German isn't an easy language to learn as enunciation and pronunciation go a long way yet this book is indeed a great start for beginners like me! I appreciated the fact that the narrator had a slow and a steady pace, making it easy to catch up. I also appreciated how he asked the listeners to download the PDF for an improved performance.

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Makes German language and culture more accessible

These German short stories were both easy to understand and entertaining. They helped me both improve my understanding of the German language and German culture, as they provide a level of contextualization for the language. German is a very difficult language, especially regarding pronunciation, but once I got into listening to these stories, I began to master the pronunciation much better. I would highly recommend this audiobook to anyone who is trying to learn or master the German language.

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A very effective learning tool!

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Having briefly learnt German during school, I found this as a great refresher to get me back into the mind set of learning a language. The stories were fun to listen to and the glossaries at the end of each chapter were especially useful when it comes to learning new words as well as improving my pronunciation. It was surprising how quickly things came back to me! I also found the supplementary PDF useful because, as a visual learner, I do like to have something to look at and this PDF provided the perfect aid for the learning experience.

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Extremely helpful

The narrator's voice is clear and slow enough to make the stories easy to follow; I also found that following along with the PDF version was very helpful. My German is fairly basic but I found myself able to understand more and more as the stories went on. I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to expand their vocabulary and their understanding of the language.

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great for learning


I have been looking to improve my German skills in an easy and enjoyable way since moving here a few months ago. I have an approximate knowledge of the language already but really only in my professional field. This helped my more conversational language in a variety of different fields. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a laid back approach to really up your word count and language understanding.

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Well worth it

There's a real limit to how complex charachters and plot can be in a book for language learners. Working within that limit this manages to entertain. There is also a lot of material here for the price. Suited to A and B level in my unprofessional opinion.

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Very helpful publisher, great resource!

This audio book compliments other learning methods. Clear easy to follow but do make sure you get the pdf, vital!

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Back to German

It's been a long time since I learned German and I haven't used it at all in the past 10 years. I find this audiobook great to get me back and refresh my previous knowledge and also helps me learn new vocabulary. I had trouble understanding the audio on its own at first but it was explained at the beginning how to get the script in PDF that was hugely helpful. I think it's great that all the stories are read by a native German. After I listened to the first story for a few times it was getting easier and easier to understand him as I went through the stories. I was pleasantly surprised that the PDFs also contained some new vocabulary in English, a summery of the story in English and even a test to see how much you understood. The topics are all different but relevant in real life. If you are someone who wants to refresh their German that seemed long forgotten this is a great tool for it.

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