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German Magazine

is a magazine for German learners. It is completely in German, and covers the most current topics in the German-Speaking countries and Europe every month. It also offers new Vocab for all different …More

Free Kindle books

I've been able to purchase several German books on my Kindle. www.amazon.de has lots of free books too - note - to purchase books from amazon.de you have to change the registration of your Kindle to …More

Deutsch Perfekt Magazine

Deutsch Perfekt is a magazine for German learners. It is completely in German, and covers the most current topics in the German-Speaking countries and Europe every month. It also offers new Vocab for…More

German Books

Most of the articles in the Austrian Air in-flight magazine have the German on the one page, and the English on the opposite, so they are really useful for learning German. Because the articles are u…More

Great source for German books in U.S.

This is not really a review, but rather a response to the person who said she couldn't find much in the way of German language books in the United States. Perhaps she will see this response. E-Bay is…More

Streetwise German

This book by Paul G. graves is a useful elementary book for learning both written and spoken German with or without a teacher.This book has sketches along with photographs of cities and well known lo…More

any ficton story books

fiction books has always attracted me because fiction books gives us more space for the imagination. one can go into the character much deeper and understand it. when i read the fiction book i feel v…More

German how to speak and write

this book by Joseph Rosenberg is simple and easy to understand. I recomend it to anyone who wants to learn ;or is having trouble understanding their lessons. It has dual language lessons so you can f…More

Die Schachnovelle

This was a book we read for German class, and I liked it pretty well. It has some things in it that take some more thought than just "what you see is what you get", meaning that sometimes you have to…More

German Detective Novels

I agree that regular reading of German is the best way to really improve grammar and vocabulary. I started two years ago after returning home from a Goethe Institut course in Dresden. The key is to f…More

General German Books

To begin with, I have never seen and am not familiar with dual-language books. I find that reading magazines, news articles and books in one's target language is very helpful in acquiring knowledge o…More

Any Paperback Novel

I definitely do not like dual-language books. they inhibit the flow of the story. I try easy looking paperbacks I find on German railway station book shops.Ich kauftete ein Buch von einem jouranlist …More

jokes and small children stories

I shall recommend to others. I teach my daughter and her children deutch. I would recommend german as an important foreign language that everyone must try to read and write. Since I studied in the ge…More

Schlink's Krimis

Before Schlink began producing his high brow literature, he wrote several Krimis. My German is definitely only middle Stufe, but I find that, with a dictionary handy, these books are fairly easy to r…More

Classic Easy Readers

Several years ago we were given a few titles from group A and B, listed here: http://www.continentalbook.com/catalog/german/grreaders.htmlI found them very helpful. I enjoyed the "folk tales," like T…More

Das Kind in der Speicherstadt

This fictional book by Katrin McClean, caught my attention in a German bookstore for two reasons; it was a mystery, and I am familiar with the area in which it takes place. I've spent quite some time…More

Emil und die Detektive

This is a book written for (German) children. We used it in an intermediate German course at Georgia State University, where I take the occasional class. It's fun to read; relatively easy with good v…More

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