The Canterville Ghost - Funny Story to Learn German & Expand Your Vocabulary the Easy Way - With the L-R-Method: German - English Bilingual Book

By Oscar Wilde and Marion van de Kamp

Book Overview

Improve your German reading and listening and expand your vocabulary! This book can be used in many ways. On the one hand, you can sit back and relax, read German and, from time to time, let your eyes wander to the translation and brush up your German this way. In this case, you can skip the chapters about tips for quickly building up your vocabulary, the L-R method and those with many more tips. Alternately, you can first get an initial overview of the proposed learning methods for effective language learning and the variety of bonus material offered with this book. Try the techniques! You'll be surprised how quickly your reading and listening skills will improve! Bonus material offered in this book, Download link for Free MP3 If you send us an EMail, you will get the following free material : Download link for the German audiobook Download links for an Anki - Deck to learn the most important German vocabulary Lord Simon Canterville has haunted the castle for hundreds of years and soon sets about trying to pull his best scare tactics on the new residents, an American minister, his wife, and their children. To his dismay, however, these modern Americans have no use for the traditions of a proper, British haunting. It's a funny, not too creepy story which can also be read together with children. Your advantages: The original text and the literary translation are placed in parallel vertical columns side by side . Therefore you can check almost instantly whether you understand or not. This is ideal to increase your vocabulary significantly very fast. So you can truly enjoy the story since you need only a split second to check the translation . Rich, alluring language Quick vocabulary expansion For advanced learners (advanced vocabulary) With language learning strategy Extensive reading and learning German with parallel texts: Why? Extensive reading means reading a lot in a foreign language. It is not essential to understand every word. You continue to read to find out what happens next. The pleasure of reading is 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" .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1720033625
• ISBN13: 9781720033622
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Story For All Ages

The Canterville Ghost is a charming tale, one of Oscar Wilde's best. It is a ghost story, a comedy and a romance all rolled into one, told with the offbeat, rolling wit that only Wilde can tell. An American family moves into a haunted mansion in England, but it is they who torment the ghost with their irrepressible irreverence, finally driving the phantom to despair. The lovely, charming daughter of the family, strikes up a friendship with the ghost, freeing it, with her prayer and tears. It is a tragic tale with a happy ending , a wonderful story for all ages.

A favorite ghost story

It's rare for a ghost story to be sympathetic towards the ghost or to flush out the ghosts character. Usually the ghost is just there to frighten the main characters and the readers. The Canterville Ghost however does make the ghost an interesting and understandable character without letting the suspense suffer.

Deliciously funny

Oscar Wilde was the master of witty and amusing stories, and this little novella is no different. It tells the tale of the poor Canterville Ghost, whose very existence is made miserable by a family of Americans who not only do not believe in him (despite his best efforts at terrorising him), but who do unspeakable things like removing the eternal blood stain in the library.The American family are really well drawn with the children being particularly successful in making the ghost miserable. And the ghost himself - well, we find ourselves having some symapthy for him, and the end of the story is quite poignant.It is a wonderful story for an older child, but also for an adult. It is certainly one of my all time favourites.

Terrific book that mixes suspense with some funny.

Thi is the first time I start readinng a book and can't leave it since I finish it .If you have a couple of hours read it!!

From the ghosts of the past to the present....

For those who have been curious about Oscar Wilde and have yet to discover his genius would have been more than US customs could have handled, the Canterville Ghost is a perfect introduction to his work. The story is cleverly woven around the archetypal upper middle class American clergy of the 19th century, yet fits easily into the modern response to our so called classless society.Oscar, it could be said, is the modern day parabalist so heavily featured within the Bible, yet his work is laced with a caustic humor which will inspire smiles and sympathy, and perhaps, if you are prone, even a little terror at the antics of the children in their torment of the long time feared inhabitant of Canterville, the ghost himself.My grandfather introduced me to this story when I was but a nipper here in England. I could not recommend it more, for children and adults alike. A classic!