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Original stories · English with German

Everyday Talk

Everyday life in everyday English, told through conversation. Free to read in the browser, each with the German beside every paragraph.

About the series

Short English stories written for this library, told almost entirely in dialogue, with a translation beside every line. The same group of flatmates, neighbours and friends deal with ordinary days: a parcel that went missing, a noisy neighbour, a visit to the doctor, plans that fall apart.

The characters talk the way people really talk: short answers, questions, everyday phrases, small words that carry a lot of meaning. Each edition uses the natural spoken phrases of its own language, not a word-for-word copy of another, so reading two editions side by side shows how each language says the same everyday thing.

The series is graded: the A2 stories keep to common words and short exchanges, the B1 stories are longer, with livelier conversations and a wider vocabulary.

A2 stories