The ideal travel companion and at-home reference, this volume features more than 2,000 common German words, each accompanied by a brief definition, a sentence in German demonstrating proper usage, and a translation. These up-to-date terms cover 21st century digital technologies and consumer electronics, and a convenient reference section offers greetings and words related to directions, restaurant orders, and other everyday activities, plus helpful tips on vocabulary and grammar.
The easy way to learn the most common words and phrases, this up-to-date reference incorporates terms related to computers, cell phones, and other digital technology, along with slang and other 21st-century vernacular. In addition to handy sections on grammar and pronunciation, it features quick charts of numbers, times, dates, seasons, and more.
"Ideal for students of German as well as crime story enthusiasts, this dual-language edition contains ten short stories. Selections range from 18th- and 19th-century classics by Friedrich Schiller and Willibald Alexis to tales by such popular contemporary authors as Iris Klockmann and Karin Holz. The editor provides an overview of German crime fiction in addition to individual introductions to each story." --
"Ideal for students, this affordable anthology features expert new translations of a dozen works previously unavailable in English. The translations appear alongside the original German text of such stories as "Beauty and the Beast" by Irmtraud Morgner, Gabriele Wohmann's "Good Luck and Bad Luck," and tales by other modern authors, including Grunert, Inneberger, and Klockmann"--