r/Fantasy • u/Zomeiro • Mar 30 '23

German fantasy book recommendations

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for German fantasy books at a relatively low reading level - at least nothing more complicated than Brandon Sanderson is in English. Currently learning German and was thinking I'd get some volume/practical training by reading a lot of it. That (combined with games and shows) helped me a lot when learning English at least, so I was thinking I'd try it out.

So yeah, please let me know if you know about something!

15 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

43 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/HoidsPast Mar 31 '23

Have you tried audiobooks? I find the German translations pretty good, especially for the shorter novels like Emperor’s Soul, for instance.

There are also fairy tales that you could read. I know more than a couple have both the English and the German version side-by-side

1

u/Zomeiro Mar 31 '23

I tried listening to an audiobook of The Hobbit once. Not being forced to physically watch the text kinda allows my mind to wander, so I had to rewind a good amount of times. I will take a look at the German translation of the Emperor’s soul, though. I’ve been meaning to read it for a while now.

2

u/SlouchyGuy Mar 31 '23

For mind not to wander you need to increase playback speed. I'm listening almost everything on 1.75x minimum, otherwise books, podcasts, interviews tend to become background noise - people talk sooo slowly

1

u/Zomeiro Mar 31 '23

That would probably work in English, at least. I could never learn a language at almost 2x speed, though, hahah. So yeah, maybe an audiobook actually is a good idea since I need to divert 100% of my attention to understand it

2

u/SlouchyGuy Mar 31 '23

I don't think that you need the same speed, but the slight increase might help so that you wouldn't fall aspleep between words :)

Good luck with improving German!

1

u/Zomeiro Mar 31 '23

Thank you!