Rauch über dem Froschweiher
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A Sunday lunch at the Rosinli, a forbidden drone, a crash somewhere over the woods: George and Victor want to fetch it back before anyone notices. At the frog pond they find only a burnt patch in the leaves, and soon they are following a man they take for a thief all the way to the Sennbach forest hut. Then smoke rises above the fir trees, and the way to help leads across the Hittnau golf course.
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- Rauch über dem Froschweiher · German (original)B2 Intermediate · 8,569 words
- Smoke over the Frog Pond · English9,063 words
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- German and English. Pick the language you want to read and the one to keep beside it: every paragraph sits next to its translation, so you can check a sentence without losing your place.
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- The original German is B2 Intermediate. Levels follow the Common European Framework, from A1 (beginner) to C2.
- How long is it?
- About 8,569 words: around 55 minutes at an unhurried pace, with the translation beside it.
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