the bestselling Dino lernt Deutsch short story series for beginners!In this follow-up to Ferien in Frankfurt, Dino finds himself in Cologne, the carnival capital of Germany and home of the Cologne Cathedral. Struggling with tacky accommodations and an empty wallet, he stumbles over a gig which promises to be a walk down easy street. But before he knows it, the carnival begins and he's faced with an onslaught of bewildering customs, an inebriated four-legged friend and sudden downpours of candy.Explore Cologne's colorful carnival tradition, learn about local sights and sounds, and improve your German effortlessly along the way!Learning German Doesn't Have To Be A ChoreJust got started learning German? Memorized a few words but struggle with longer texts? We've all been there. This book is designed to help beginners make the leap from studying isolated words and phrases to reading (and enjoying!) naturally flowing German narrative.Using simplified sentence structures and a very basic vocabulary you can build upon, this set of 10 connected short stories is carefully crafted to allow even novice learners to fully immerse themselves in an authentic German language experience.Each chapter comes with a complete German-English dictionary with special emphasis on collocative phrases (high frequency word combinations), short sentences and expressions designed for improved memorization.By working with these building blocks instead of just single words, learners can boost their active usage of new material instantly and make the learning process more fluid and fun.What You'll Find In This Book10 chapters of cultural experience and urban explorationphrases and words you will actually use in daily lifedetailed German-English vocabulary listsshort quizzes to boost your text-comprehensiona relatable protagonist and other fun charactershand-drawn illustrations by the authorthe beginning of a grand German learning adventure ...Read, Learn & Collect Them AllYes! That's right. This is only the second episode of a whole series of exciting German short stories for beginners. Follow our protagonist to Frankfurt, Cologne, Munich, Zurich, Vienna and many other cities! Before you know it, you'll have travelled half of Europe and picked up more German than years' worth of expensive courses.Learning German has never been more fun.What You'll NOT Find In This Bookdull characters designed by academicsarchaic words and phrases nobody uses in real lifewordy footnotes that get in the way of the reading experiencechildish storytelling that insults your intelligencea jumble of unrelated places, people and eventsa teaching approach which takes itself too seriously

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