Einfach Deutsch lesen: Nachbar Nr. 5 - Kurzgeschichten- Niveau: sehr leicht - With English vocabulary list (German Edition)

Hey Angelika, Frau angesehener Autorin!I hope you can grok the meaning behind my headline...It is meant as an extreme compliment! In baseball, knocking it out of the ballpark automatically is a home run and score points. You scored many points with this charming story! I appreciated that the grammar was easy. After "Foto Ohne Namen" which I liked but struggled with a bit, I enjoyed a "leichtere Fahrt" (I hope that makes sense). But the story was so charming and lovely and funny and unexpected at the end that I found myself laughing out loud. This would be a great story even in English!PLEASE, please, please, please write more books! I only have a couple left to go and if you don't write more, I will feel bereft! I am now slogging through "Cafe Leo" and after that will let my mind rest with "Silberener Kugelschreiber". And then I'm done! So please, put pen to paper and write your delicious stories that teach me SO MUCH German! Danke, danke, danke!Mark

This book is great for beginners. The story is a little ridiculous but it also so hilarious! It was fun to read which made it easy to keep reading. Additionally, the language is at a suitable level for relatively new learners. I think if you’ve really just gotten past the basics this book will challenge you at an appropriate level and really better your reading skills. Again, it’s so enjoyable and funny!

I’ve been teaching German to American college students for many years. Rarely have I taught a text that resonated so well with my students as Nachbar Nr. 5 did this semester. It’s a breath of fresh air! The book is driven by a realistic, easy-to-follow plot but spiced up by an array of bizarre characters, “die nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank haben.” Those crazy neighbors are not all PG 13 but they sure will pique everyone’s curiosity and are lovingly sketched in basic everyday German (on the high end of A1). This book was truly a pleasure to teach from start to finish. I look forward to reading more of Bohn’s stories.

The author is careful to use vocabulary that is appropriate to the language proficiency level marked on the bookl. Her stories are clever and engaging. I found them easy to read yet challenging enough to keep me at the upper edge of my abilities. Each book builds on the others in the series in terms of vocabulary and usage. I've tried a lot of different easy German readers and this one is at the upper end of the five star rating for English speakers.

This was _a lot_ of fun to read. For a beginner's book, the storytelling was rich and the humor was smooth. Sometimes when you're reading a book for German learners, the writer loses the natural flow language to stay comprehensible or recycle language. I get the need, but it can feel stilted once you're no longer a true beginner. Right away, the world of this story felt fuller, more real than what I was used to. It still does what you need in terms of sheltering vocabulary and recycling forms, but it's done seamlessly. And it's just plain funny. The parade of comic adventures marches with wacky momentum all the way through. When Finn "rollt mit dem Augen" you really get why. Angelika Bohn is a talented story teller, and I can't wait to read her next book.

Sehr gut! I don’t know whether to praise the author more for the easy way she introduces - and in a natural way repeats and reinforces - new German words and phrases, or for writing what is simply a fabulously entertaining and frequently laugh-out-loud book with a very funny twist at the end. I hope she writes many more.

I bought this along with the first book in the Dino Lernt series and I have to say this one is superior. The chapters are a continuation of a coherent story whereas Dino is unrelated stories that aren't as interesting. I like that the vocab is at the bottom of each page rather than a run-on wall of text like in the Dino books.

This is an amazing resource for anyone learning German. Not so easy that it feels condescending but not so hard that you feel like giving up. The story is "sehr lustig“ which keeps you interested the whole time. As my understanding of German increases, I will certainly buy the rest of the books in the Einfach Deutsch series

I liked the fact that each chapter followed the previous chapter which makes the whole book a complete story. In addition by writing it in the German spoken language and using different tenses repeatedly I found it quite easy to workout the meaning of some words without the need to look them up. New and important words are highlighted and it's possible to understand the story without knowing all the words as the context helps you to understand their meaning.

Picked up to remember some of my German from school (over 10 years ago) and was not disappointed. Read it in couple of days with the help of a kindle dictionary. By the end of the book I was looking up maybe a word per every page. Real confidence booster and have already bought more books from the series. Definitely great for people like me, who pick up words while immersing in the language.

Great for learning, these books are excellent for improving your German.

Brilliant book to reinforce vocabulary at advertised level. Very funny also. Even my children (aged 12 & 14) enjoyed this.

Used for recreation. Interesting, easy to follow, enough new words to be informative without interrupting the flow of the story.