“German Jokes” includes many modern German jokes and, thus, thousands of common phrases and colloquial expressions of the modern German language. The book is published as follows: each joke is repeated twice: first comes the German text with “clues” - interspersed into it with a literal Russian translation and a lexico-grammatical commentary (that is, adapted), and then - the same text, but not adapted, without hints. Beginners to master the German language can read first the text with hints, and then the same joke - without hints. Those improving their German can do the opposite: read the text without prompts, peeking at the prompts as necessary. Memorizing words and expressions occurs due to their repetition, without cramming. In addition, the reader gets used to the logic of the German language, begins to “feel” it. This book will relieve you from the stress of the first stage of language acquisition - from a mechanical search for every word in the dictionary and from fruitless guessing what a phrase means, all the words from which you have already found. The book is intended for an adult reader.