German Graded Readers

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I am currently in Milan, visiting some universities I am likely to attend, in addition to the one I have already been admitted to. I also made use of my visit by going to a library specialized in foreign language books, and happily spent 40€ of my pocket to buy 5 graded readers in German, which I’ll start as soon as I finish my Assimil beginner manual (I’ll write a review on that.) Here are the graded readers:

Black Cat - Cideb (biography of Albert Einstein)

Black Cat - Cideb (a simplified version of Faust)

http://www.blackcat-cideb.com/german-catalogue/416-nibelungen-die-9788877547545.html

Black Cat - Cideb (something about mad computers)

http://www.blackcat-cideb.com/german-catalogue/436-verwandlung-die-9788877548085.html

They all come with audio cds, recorded by professional actors. I’m going to OCR the texts, import them as private lessons on LingQ, and start phase 2 of my German learning!

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why you dont share those lessons with other members, it would be nice because there are not ocred graded readers books available for download

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@anunaki: Because you need permission to share copyrighted material. It is illegal to share these books publicly. Not to forget that Adalberto has spent 40€ for them.

@Adalberto: Good luck with your German.

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Just out of curiosity, what do you do to OCR the texts. I have some of the Black Cat readers for French.

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I use the ABBYY software (www.abbyy.com).

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Looks nice, but it’s a bit pricey for me. Not sure I’d get my money’s worth. One of the things I like about LingQ (although I haven’t been using it recently) is all the content here so I don’t have to bother scanning things in. For paper books, I just read them and leave it at that.