Mark Twain
Easy30 min read
Learn Deutsch
Easy Deutsch stories
Short books in clear, everyday sentences. Short books in clear sentences, each with English beside it as the books open. Start with one you already know.
Rudyard Kipling
Easy3 h 30 min read
E. Nesbit
Easy4 h 10 min read
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Easy4 h 20 min read
Oscar Wilde
Easy1 h read
H. G. Wells
Easy3 h 20 min read
J. M. Barrie
Easy3 h 10 min read
Lewis Carroll
Easy2 h read
Anna Sewell
Easy4 h read
Carlo Collodi
Easy2 h 40 min read
Stephen Crane
Easy3 h 10 min read
Michel Millot
Easy2 h 40 min read
Ralph Sholto
Easy50 min read
John Bunyan
Easy3 h 50 min read
Eleanor H. Porter
Easy3 h 50 min read
Jean Webster
Easy2 h 30 min read
Katherine Mansfield
Easy4 h read
Rebecca Harding Davis
Easy1 h read
Robert Silverberg
Easy3 h 10 min read
Xenophon
Easy2 h 30 min read
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Easy3 h 40 min read
Samuel R. Delany
Easy3 h 40 min read
Äsop
Easy1 h 40 min read
Lal Behari Day
Easy30 min read
The method
How to learn Deutsch with the classics
Reading real books with the translation beside you builds vocabulary in context, and hearing them read aloud trains your ear at the same time.
- Pick a book at your level.Start with an Easy story, ideally one you already know.
- Read side by side.Deutsch on one side, English on the other, paragraph by paragraph.
- Listen as you read.Hear the Deutsch read aloud, and slow it down when you need to.
- Check, don’t translate.Read a paragraph in Deutsch first, then look across or tap it.
- Read a little every day.Ten minutes a day takes you through a short book in a few weeks.
Read and hear every book in Deutsch
200,000+ classics as eBook, large-print eBook, audiobook and 15-minute summary, in 25 languages, side by side in any two, and any book printed at cost as a paperback, hardcover or large print. 5 accounts for the price of one.
Start freeNothing to pay today. Renews every year.
