Learn German with Stories: Plötzlich in Palermo - 10 Short Stories for Beginners

Great little stories, fun, good sense of humour, culturally aware. Excellent vocabulary list with each story. What it does need, however, is a little grammar instruction, say, on gender, adjective agreement, verb forms, sentence order and a little drill work. I'm a German-speaker already; I got these little books for my husband. But I'm enjoying the stories and the spirit in them very much.

I have enjoyed all the books in the series-Highly recommend for German students

This is a well written, easy to understand book that is part is an amazing series of books, workbooks, and audio to help beginners learn German. I am so glad I found this series.

This little book is the follow-up of "Café in Berlin": the adventures of a young penniless Sicilian who experiences life in various different settings _ First in Berlin, then in Palermo ........ etc. The author uses simplified sentence structures and basic vocabulary making his books suitable for "post" beginners and intermediate students of German. By using these "building blocks" of language, one unconsciously learns the basic structures of the language. Accumulation of vocabulary, expressions and basic phrases is easily and rapidly acquired. One needs, however, to be at least at a "post beginner" stage to take full advantage of this book.

Really struggling trying to learn German, with its unusual (to me) grammar rules. This whole series of books is fantastic for the new learner, like myself. I bought one and was so impressed I bought the whole series. They're just above "see spot run" books for children learning English, with excellent translation sections behind each story, and with each story building on the previous one.