German with Erich KästnerThree in the Snow

Erich KästnerDrei Männer im Schnee

The book was adapted by Natalya Ageeva

Ilya Frank’s reading method

This book will help you quickly and without forcing yourself to get used to a foreign language and gain a considerable vocabulary without cramming. The text in the original language is repeated here twice: first with hints (interspersed with a literal translation and lexico-grammatical commentary), and then without hints .Beginners learning a foreign language can first read an adapted version of the text, and after mastering it, move on to the original. On the contrary, for those who are already able to grasp the meaning of the text in the original language, it is better to do the opposite: read the text without hints (second option), and look at the hints as necessary (first option). Memorizing words and expressions, as well as getting used to grammatical structures occurs naturally during such reading, due to their repetition. This book will save you from the stress of the first stage of language acquisition: from a mechanical search for each word in the dictionary and from fruitless guessing what a phrase means, all the words from which you have already found.