megshoe Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 This is a book I would highly recommend to anyone learning German! It's a wonderful and fantastic tale of two adventurers and their locomotive train by the author of The Never-Ending Story (yup, it's originally German!). It's about a B1 reading level and it's full of great vocabulary. Personally I love this story and learned a lot from it. Does anyone else have suggestions for young adult/middle school level reading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mim Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Thanks for your tip! When I was a child, I read "Jim Knopf" and "Die Unendliche Geschichte". I LOVED them. I've read only their translations, but now I realize that I can read them in German!!!My suggestion would be „Krabat“ von Otfried Preussler. It's also a children's book, I think. When I was a child I read it and (I think) loved it. Lately I heard that a Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki is inspired from this book and created a movie "Spirited Away“. So I want to read it again, maybe this time in German Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Thanks for your tip! When I was a child, I read "Jim Knopf" and "Die Unendliche Geschichte". I LOVED them. I've read only their translations, but now I realize that I can read them in German!!!My suggestion would be „Krabat“ von Otfried Preussler. It's also a children's book, I think. When I was a child I read it and (I think) loved it. Lately I heard that a Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki is inspired from this book and created a movie "Spirited Away“. So I want to read it again, maybe this time in German Awww, "Spirited Away", it is my favorite movie from Hayao Miyazaki. The Japanese title of "Spirited Away" is "Chihiro" :grin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mim Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 I think that it's a good movie, too The official Japanese title is "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterBunzel Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Hey Guys. There is another book in the Jim Knopf series: Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13. Further more I can recommend to watch out for "Die Augsburger Puppenkiste", which is a puppet show that (among others) covered the Jim-Knopf-Adventures by Michael Ende. "Die unendliche Geschichte" which was mentioned before is definetly a great book and dont miss to read "Momo" and "Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch", both written by Michael Ende as well. (no worries: "satanarchäolügenialkohöllisch" is actually an experimental neologism, but it illustrates how it´s possible to mash up words in German language.) Another book series I can really recommend is "Urmel" by Max Kruse. It´s a bit special since the characters all have a different speech impedement, but in my experience it´s a great occassion to think about language. By the way, "Urmel" was also covered by "Die Augsburger Puppenkiste". Best wishes, Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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