Becoming fluent in German: 150 Short Stories

This book helped me improve upon my German immensely! The short stories are great for improving your ability to read German in real life situations. All the stories are relatable and are easy to understand. At the end of each story, there is a list of vocabulary words that you may not have known. There is also questions at the end of each story that relate to what you just read so that you can make sure to understood everything. This book has helped me improve my German in indescribable ways! Would def recommend reading! 10/10!

After 2 years on Duolingo, I was looking for something outside of Duolingo to complement my progress. I initially looked at children's books on the Internet, but found most of them required more language skills than I possessed, requiring me to constantly Google for the meanings of words and then to sort out the syntax. And it was discouraging to think that I didn't have enough language skills to read and comprehend children's stories! This collection of short stories uses both vocabulary I learned on Duolingo, as well as vocabulary outside of the application. The stories are credible, describe situations and events one might experience, and seem to be geared to adults, young and old. The accompanying audio downloads also help in presenting a speaker outside of the Duolingo app, with a different voice, speaking speed, etc., to help the learner's ear become more flexible to hearing a different voice. An excellent complement to one's "regular" language lessons.

As a beginning German learner, reading short stories is a great way to improve your learning. The stories in this book are very short, really just a paragraph each. I've been learning for about 15 months and these stories were a little bit basic for my level. Other books have longer, more interesting stories.

I'm using this product to help me piece together in my memory how to construct questions, responses and reminders. The stories are very short, consumable and helpful and inspiring. The author, writer did an amazing job with them and the helpful questions and approach to make you figure out the meaning on your own but be able to check some of the words with helpful, accurate translations. You won't want to put this book down so make notes and review them often.

This is the book you need to perfect your German language skills. I have been learning German for almost one year now through various platforms like YouTube channels and online courses but I reached a point where I felt I was stuck. That is when I came across this book here at Amazon and I bought a kindle version of it. So far I am really improving and I have come to learn a lot of vocabulary in sentences which has more impact to language learning as opposed to just craning the words. So get this book if you need to take your German language learning to the next level.

Very short stories in increasing difficulty make this a fun time! The author includes access to online audio files to help with listening skills, and helps you with your pronunciation.

I finally opened this book up and I like the style very much. The 150(!) stories are brief and full of useful vocabulary. One learns about Germany too. I am subscribing to Mr. Eich's Youtube channel now too. Danke!

I like the stories and included questions and vocab lists. There is a wide variety of topics. I am disappointed in the typos. Sie and Ihnen aren't capitalized in the stories I've read and there are occasional other grammar errors, such as verb endings.

I'm yet to read it, but I was disappointed with the printing. It looks cheap, and the text is cramped and the font size is somewhat small. Included is a link for an Audio version, but the tracks are not separate for each story, rather the whole book is divided into 4 audio tracks, unpractical. After reading it I may come again to review the stories themselves.

Book is wonderful in exposing new vocabulary and great for learning sentence structure in german. May not be useful for intermediate learners as it is extremely basic. Overall great and helped me a lot!

This book is just what I needed. It comes with audio files available on the webpage of the Creator. It is a nice selection of comprehensible short stories with vocabulary aid on the bottom of the page. Strongly recommended.

I just received this book and it turns out the ideal book that I've ever met for German learning. If you want to give it a try to the theory of comprehensible input on German language learning I would highly recommend this book for your learning material. Combined with videos on the internet and reading books, I think this would be a great combination for any language learning.

El tamaño y material del libro es de buena calidad, sobre el contenido, un poco de edición ayudaría a una presentación visual más agradable de las lecturas , pero es sólo eso, visual. Los textos son variados y adecuados en longitud para un estudiante, me gustó mucho el audio, su velocidad es casi normal y permite escuchar cada sonido. Lo recomiendo ampliamente si estás interesado en acercarte al alemán con textos adecuados a tu nivel de aprendizaje.