German Easter Short Stories for Beginners

This is a paperback, printed on demand and shipped to you physically. There is no PDF, ePub or Kindle version. Because it is printed to order, each copy is made specifically for you rather than taken from a shelf.

The stories are written for beginners, roughly A1 - A2 level. If you know the German alphabet and have a basic feel for sentence structure, you can follow along. The vocabulary section in each chapter fills in the gaps, so you do not need a dictionary alongside it.

Franconia, the region around Nuremberg, has some of the most distinctive Easter traditions in the German-speaking world - including the elaborately decorated Osterbrunnen (Easter fountains) and large communal Osterfeuer bonfires. Setting all 20 stories in one real region keeps the German consistent and gives you a genuine sense of place, rather than a generic, nowhere version of German culture.

It reads best in order, because the twenty chapters build one continuous arc and the vocabulary grows from chapter to chapter. You can dip into a single story on its own, but reading start to finish is how the book is meant to work.