Learning German With Stories And Pictures: Fred Der Fisch

by André Klein

Learning German can be a lot of fun, but focusing only on grammar and word formation patterns is an almost guaranteed path to frustration. This is not to say that grammar is usless for learning German, it's certainly helpful as a compass, but it's impossible to master conversation and text-comprehension through mere "calculation" of cases and conjugations.

Children all over the world are able to learn the most complex languages intuitively simply by listening and repeating. This book is an invitation to this more natural approach to language learning. While there are of course significant differences between the way adults and infants learn, everyone can benefit from the following materials, whether to brush up on former studies or as a first step in dealing with authentic materials.

Genres: German Literature

79 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

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 short stories, picture books and non-fiction works in English and German.

Reviews

[Eric · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ein anderes gutes Buch für Deutschesprache lernen. Es ist einfach, und kurz.

[Mycala · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, love, love this book! I have been meaning to brush up on my high school German (that was nearly 25 years ago! yikes!) and I love the idea of starting to read another language just like I did with English. I was able to follow along fine and really only needed to look up one word. I was surprised with how much I retained, but these books are making re-learning German a lot of fun!

[S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my first German book, back when I'd just started learning. It's very cute, and I like how it features key vocabulary so that it's easier for beginners to get through.