Read German Reading Book by F. Hahn, C.A. Thimm in German

In Interlinear, the German text is followed by an English translation below each word or phrase.

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What is German Reading Book about?

German Reading Book (Deutsches Lesebuch, originally published in 1901) is a book for beginner German students. It is a collection of sentences, anecdotes and later very short stories in increasing difficulty. The shortest stories are just a page long while the longer ones span over ten pages.

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F. Hahn, C.A. Thimm's Interlinear book revived from 1901!

F. Hahn, C.A. Thimm originally presented this book under the title A selection of tales by celebrated German authors, progressively arranged either for use in classes or for self-study. Due to its format and length, the book is a very good introduction to reading German - and it is also a very interesting collection of little-known stories to read and enjoy!

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How was this German translation made?

Book restored from a century ago!

While researching the Interlinear translation method to improve our own Interlinear books, we stumbled upon some old existing Interlinear translations of fiction: most of them from over a century ago!

We discovered that nearly all such translations were old and often had become outdated and hard to find.

We obtained a few such translations, including a Russian reading book, and a German reading book authored by F. Hahn and published in 1901 by C.A. Thimm. We transcribed and updated the book, repackaged it as an e-book in a format similar to our other Interlinear texts and are publishing it now more than a century later…

Updated and renewed text.

The original book was published in the old German Gothic font (also called Blackletter) which looked similar to this:

Illustration of the German Gothic or Blackletter font

A key contributor to Interlinear Books Dave MacLeod transcribed the book digitally and added missing translations.

Afterwards, another key contributor and a native German speaker Steffen Haugk helped us update the old German language, replacing outdated spelling, grammatical endings and words to make sure the book has been as useful to a German speaker as it has ever been!

Transcribed and partially translated by Dave MacLeod, edited and updated by Steffen Haugk.

This Interlinear book includes:

  • 100 standard-book pages
  • over 16 thousand translated words and expressions
  • original text with updated German & aligned Interlinear translations
  • a separately available German-only version of the text to get additional practice after having read the text with the Interlinear translation
  • files in the printable or electronically readable PDF format, as well as MOBI and EPUB format files for Kindles and other e-book readers, tablets, and phones - all immediately available to download

Available to order right now.

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