The Canterville Ghost – Das Gespenst von Canterville

Funny Story to Learn German & Expand Your Vocabulary the Easy Way – With the L-R-Method

Lord Simon Canterville has haunted the castle for hundreds of years and soon sets about trying to pull his best scare tactics on the new residents, an American minister, his wife, and their children. To his dismay, however, these modern Americans have no use for the traditions of a proper, British haunting. It’s a funny, not too creepy story which can also be read together with children.

‘The Guardian’ wrote about Oscar Wildes writing: ‘Oscar’s sensibilities are so perfectly fitted to our time: sarcastic, idealistic, playful, gloomy, melodramatic, conflicted. He was a self-created superstar, with a weirdly modern awareness of all that entailed’.

Learn Languages with Parallel Texts – Example Layout

Here’s an example of the parallel text arrangement in “The Canterville Ghost”. The translation stands next to each other, sentence by sentence. For a better orientation when reading the Kindle, every second line is highlighted in colour. Here’s an example of the layout for a Kindle. The translation can be found so easily, quickly and without a dictionary.

Bonus material for ‘Learn German with Parallel Texts’ – The Canterville Ghost

– Download of the German audiobook
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– Download links for an Anki – Deck to learn the most important German vocabulary