A Christmas Carol / Der Weihnachtsabend - Bilingual English German in parallel vertical columns (German Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Learn German with 'A Christmas Carol' The English text and the literary translation are placed in parallel vertical columns side by side. (Parallel Text, Bilingual Text, Sentence by Sentence) Who does not know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a very bitter old miser? Only the ghosts of the Christmas past, present and yet to come are able to change his character...If you like learning by reading a wonderful story instead of boring textbooks this book is for you! Some of the most famous quotations are: “Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.” - “Bah," sagte Scrooge, "Humbug.” There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. – Auch in der ganzen weiten Welt ist nichts so unwiderstehlich ansteckend wie Lachen und Fröhlichkeit. Your advantages:The original text and the literary translation are placed in parallel vertical columns side by side, in a sentence by sentence alignment.Therefore you can check almost instantly whether you understand or not. This is ideal to increase your vocabulary significantly very fast.To be able to look them up faster the sentences are alternately colored.So you can truly enjoy the story since you need only a split second to check the translation.The German translation is very close to the English original. This makes understanding simple and lookup of difficult words fast.The book has a rich vocabulary. The language level is very high, but even beginners can read the books because of the parallel text alignment.Extensive reading and learning German with parallel texts: Why?Extensive reading means reading a lot in a foreign language. It is not important to understand every word. You just continue to read in order to find out what happens next. The pleasure of reading is really what increases language abilities. Kato Lomb was a Hungarian interpreter who spoke several languages fluently. She described in her book “How I Learn Languages” how she used extensive reading to increase her vocabulary fast. The American linguist Stephen Krashen has said that free voluntary reading is “the most powerful tool we have in language education”.This edition: English - German, Englisch - Deutsch