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Unfortunately the German translation used here is from 1874 and uses quite a bit of archaic spelling (Capitel vs, Kapitel, Thatsache vs.Tatsache, etc.) which may be a distraction for some readers.This beautiful parallel text edition provided by lets you enjoy the adventures of Alice in German (translated by Antonie Zimmerman) and English right in your browser, side by side, including the 42 original illustrations by John Tenniel.And as if that wasn’t enough, it also comes with a free integrated Librivox audiobook!Reading German short stories or novels can be a great way to quickly expand your vocabulary and see all the fiddly bits of grammar in action. Parallel text or bilingual book editions will show you the original and the translated version side by side, so that you can work yourself through a text word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, without losing the thread.But if you just started out, reading long chunks of German can be daunting at first. This way, you can skip back and forth between the German and the English version and constantly check your understanding.
Note: Many of these titles are literary classics from the public domain (that’s why they’re free), so if that’s not your thing and you’re looking for more contemporary German stories designed specifically for learners, also check out our Learn German With Stories series.I love music and often incorporate it into my language learning process. For me, studying from grammar textbooks can be quite dull at times.Reading tables of verbs doesn’t help me internalise them in any way – I just tend to get bored.You’re not going to learn to talk like a native merely from reading a textbook.You have to there and hear how people speak in their native tongue.