The Wonderful Adventures of Nils - Bilingual German English with sentence-by-sentence translation placed directly side by side (German Edition) - Brossura

Lagerlöf, Selma

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1530850223 ISBN 13: 9781530850228

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Riassunto

“The Wonderful Adventures of Nils” is on the list of Le Monde’s 100 best books of the 20th century.

The book starts with a dwarf putting a spell on Nils, because he is only up for mischief. Suddenly he is shrunk to the size of a thumb and now belongs to the small and weak ones. Nils goes on a journey across Sweden with a goose named Martin, where he experiences lots of wonderful adventures.

Selma Lagerlöf manages to capture the atmosphere of nature in a unique way and received the Nobel Prize in Literature for her efforts. There are passages within the book that are funny, such as the way the roosters name their farms: “This place is called Grainscarce” or “The name of this place is Little-to-eat” at poor farmers’ estates or “Eggberga, Moneyville and Luckymeadow” at the richer farmers’. However, there are also more serious passages that describe the poverty of children begging through the country. You won’t forget the story of Gorgo the Eagle, who is being raised by geese matriarch Akka, or when Nils rescues Akka from the fox followed by the geese’s revenge; or the fight for Glimminge Castle between the gray and black rats.

These stories won’t get boring, even when reading them multiple times, and they make learning English interesting.

The books is suitable for young and old alike and also for parents how would like to learn German together with their children. Maybe you can learn German together (depending on the age of the child). Or you brush up your German with this bilingual edition.

About this edition: (Parallel Text, Bilingual)

• The original text and the literary translation are placed in parallel vertical columns side by side.
• Therefore you can check almost instantly whether you understand or not. This is ideal to increase your vocabulary significantly very fast.
• To be able to look them up faster the sentences are alternately colored.
• So you can truly enjoy the story since you need only a split second to check the translation.
• The German translation is very close to the English original. This makes understanding simple and lookup of difficult words fast.
• It makes it very suitable for learning both German and English.
• You can choose to read in German or English, switch between the two languages or just insert some German words if you read to your child

Extensive reading and learning German with parallel texts: Why?

Extensive reading means reading a lot in a foreign language. It is not important to understand every word. You just continue to read in order to find out what happens next. The pleasure of reading is really what increases language abilities. Kato Lomb was a Hungarian interpreter who spoke several languages fluently. She described in her book “How I Learn Languages” how she used extensive reading to increase her vocabulary fast.

The American linguist Stephen Krashen has said that free voluntary reading is “the most powerful tool we have in language education”

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Su questo libro

About the Author:

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was born in Mårbacka, in the province of Värmland in southern Sweden. Lagerlöf's work is deeply rooted in Nordic legends and history. She rejected the dominating realistic movement and wrote her novels in a romantic and imaginative style about the peasant life and landscape of Northern Sweden. She wrote several books for children, the most popular of which is The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. In 1909, she became the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and, in 1914, she was appointed a member of the Swedish Academy.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Swedish

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530850223
• ISBN 13: 9781530850228
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 186
• Redattore: Ziebell Beate