limey75 wrote:What, no German?
There is something similar for German called Deutsch Perfekt if you are interested. I found it on Audible (each edition comes with a downloadable PDF), but there is a standalone website as well.
limey75 wrote:What, no German?
According to the publisher, the articles are written in the target language by university-educated native speakers (on a contractual basis). The articles are destined for publication in the Think Language magazines and they are not reprints from other sources. From my Email communications with the publisher, she sold a collection of the archived magazine articles and audio recordings, along with the corresponding copyrights, to McGraw-Hill for publication as the "Think and Read ..." series of book/CD packages. She was dismayed by McGraw-Hill's decision to include only a portion of the audio recordings on the CD, a matter over which she had no control. Nevertheless, as her publishing house is "linked" to these book/CD packages, she continues to field the complaints concerning this issue and others. As to the level of difficulty of the materials, I found that the articles were reasonably easy to understand once I had achieved a level of approximately A2 in Spanish and Italian; however, at this level, one still has a great deal of general vocabulary to absorb ... which is one of the goals of the audio magazines and the derivative books.Tomás wrote: ... I have wondered if they were Spanish translations from English travel magazine articles, because they are generally very easy to understand if you have a B1 vocabulary.
Carmody wrote:Hi,
Could you please give me some examples ofI don't believe I know about them.The French learning magazines
The Goethe Institut's eLibrary has some of these.Eliza wrote:
There is a German publisher who maintains a very similar approach for German, English, Business English, French, Spanish and Italian:
http://www.spotlight-verlag.de/
You can find the German magazine "Deutsch perfekt" here: http://www.deutsch-perfekt.com/
The main difference seems to be the limited accompanying audio files (only up to three articles for the Deutsch Plus subscription). Deutsch Perfekt does only contain monolingual explications for vocabulary etc., so it is suitable for anyone with at least a basic understanding. The other magazines contain vocab lists and grammar explications in German.
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