We learn the theoretical framework of a language through textbooks. But the best way to actually learn to use a new language is through stories, as children, and as adults! This is why short stories become an increasingly popular way to learn a new language.

Many short stories in the language take place in Germany. This series of German short stories are different. Don’t you find it interesting when someone has visited a foreign country, maybe even your home country, and is telling you about it? Perhaps in his own language? Meet Klaus. Klaus is German and visiting America. Improve your German and your knowledge of German culture whilst listening to his tales!

Klaus is in a big city for the first time in his life, camps in the Grand Canyon, hitchhikes, talks to the Black Feet people in Montana crosses the wrong area in St. Louis at night, and is confronted with racial issues for the first time, and shares park benches with homeless people, which he had not seen before.

Klaus in Amerika: Montana and the Northwest is the third part of a series of short stories. Each of them is short and sweet, or kurz und knackig. The manageable length makes it easily digestible, yet teaches valuable vocabulary, to give you a satisfying and efficient learning experience.

Since Klaus is telling about his travel adventures in an English-speaking country, many keywords are English and help you follow the story. Even if you do not understand every word right away, you will understand what Klaus is talking about. Key vocabulary, given within each chapter, just after the corresponding words and repeated after each chapter, helps you with this. At places, small translations are provided, to help you follow the story.

Synopsis:

My name is Klaus. I grew up in a small village in the former German Democratic Republic, now East Germany. In 1961, three of my uncles fled to Canada, just early enough to avoid the Berlin Wall. For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to go to America. When I was nine years old the wall fell. Twelve years later, in 2001, after school and shortly after my military service, I flew from Dresden via Zurich to New York with a so-called "rail pass" valid for 45 days. It was my first big trip, and it would take me across America by train. In 45 days I traveled almost 10,000 miles from the East Coast to the West Coast, and to Canada, where I visited my uncles for the first time, then through the Southwest to the Northeast.

After a long train journey that began in Washington, DC and lasted over three days, and took me through the green Appalachian Mountains and the endless prairies, I arrived at the edge of the Rocky Mountains and smelled the fresh and crisp air that was so different from the humid and heavy air in the Midwest and the East Coast. In this third part of the series, I tell you how I stayed in the garden of a Blackfeet family in East Glacier, hitchhiked into the woods, fell into a raging river during snowmelt, almost peed my pants during the night in the tent hearing strange noises thinking it was a grizzly bear, and how I visited my uncles in Canada for the first time.

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