About the "Learn German with a story. Krimi in Berlin. V2"
Conservative French Hercule Poirot (no, he has nothing to do with the Hercule Poirot) first came to Berlin only to become a victim of fraud. This is how he met Merk, ultra-left hacker, vegan, constantly broke - let's not speak of her half shaved skull, her tattoos and her tendency to use swear words.
Hercule and she are the total opposite - maybe that's why the start working together really well. After solving the issue of the fraud, and indeed another mystery, they are now once again faced with another potential crime to solve: at the opening of Hercule’s restaurant, one of the guests found their phone had been used to send strange and potentially career-ruining messages without his knowledge! Reunited, Hercule and Merk try to solve the source of this crime, only to find themselves unravelling a whole web of problems, from strange texts all the way to harassment...
How helps this book to learn German?
Learn German as a foreign language simply by reading their story. This concept of foreign language study is also known as "Easy German Reading". With this book, there is a special feature: you'll learn a lot of important slang words, phrases, idioms and proverbs - exactly what you need to make your German more fluent and more native at the level of B1-B2. The story doesn't only focus on German vocabulary for crime and detective stories, but mainly on everyday life, including the expression of positive and negative feelings. Therefore, the story has a lot of spoken language - the best way to improve your German.
Over 1 hour of Audio material is included as a free download. So, you can learn German while listening to the crime story in the car etc...
Review from "An English Man in Berlin" award-winning Blog about life and culture in Berlin, Germany-
This mini e-book is long enough to challenge B2 German learners, but short and exciting enough to keep you engaged. It is comes with an audio track and explains key phrases, but doesn’t feel textbook tedious.
It starts, as all krimis should, with a dramatic shooting. Blood turns the wooden Berlin floors red. Merc, a hilariously Berlin type – leftie, vegan, hacker – has just been shot. As her friend Hercule takes this in, we pick up some colloquial German phrases, like Trick auf Lager (a trick up one’s sleeve), null Komma nix (very fast) and in der Scheiße sitzen (to be up shit creek without a paddle). These little phrases are useful and fascinating to learn as we figure out how and why Merc was shot, and wonder whether everything will turn out alright in the end.
A snappy, entertaining read.
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