French German

This is two language audio courses in one, giving you an introductory guide (A2 level) to the French and German languages with works and phrases you can put to use daily and introductions to the culture, traditions, and customs of both France and Germany to help you make the most of your time in those countries. This is an ideal way to get started learning two languages that will unlock your ability to communicate effectively with millions of people in Europe and even beyond.

The Carrying Place located near The Mohawk River known as German Flats in upstate New York was first settled in 1723 by German Palatines. In 1750, Joshua Judd just eighteen was forced to kill his first Huron Indian after they killed his mother and father at his home far into the hills above German Flats. Alone, he traveled the ridge tops to reach German Flats, but little did he know, the killing would continue as he came across another lone cabin where two more settlers were brutality killed and scalped. Here he would find one survivor, Carrie Dunlop, who was his same age, and she too was ...

Cet audiobook propose une collection d’histoires du soir conçues pour aider les enfants à découvrir l’allemand de manière naturelle, douce et rassurante. À travers des récits courts et indépendants, l’enfant est exposé à la langue allemande dans un contexte narratif clair, calme et adapté à un jeune public, idéal pour l’écoute avant le coucher. Chaque histoire est d’abord racontée en allemand, puis suivie de sa version française. Cette alternance permet à l’enfant de comprendre immédiatement le sens de ce qu’il entend, sans interrompre le plaisir de l’écoute.

Nine-year-old Oscar Rosenfeld chases his runaway kitten, delighted to be outdoors after months of being cooped up in a small Viennese apartment. His parents and sister Miriam race after him in alarm. He immediately runs into two policemen who catch hold of him. But they have no intention of returning him safely to his family. Their faces contort in disgust and rage. For Oscar has Down’s Syndrome and as such is targeted by the Nazis for extermination. Oscar’s parents fight to save him, their father is killed and their mother is beaten to the ground. Her last words to Miriam are to take ...

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris. This program includes a...

In the dark days of war, who can you trust? When journalist Marlene Villeret parachutes into Nazi-occupied France by moonlight, her role is to observe the French way of life until her departure at the next full moon. With swastikas draped around Paris and families torn from their homes in front of helpless friends and neighbours, Marlene wants to do more with her short time in the city. But when she forms a bond with Niklas, a German soldier, she has cause to question all that she thought she knew about the war. With every passing day, Marlene is drawn further into danger. When she is ...

A secret letter. A wartime promise. A courageous act of love... Singapore, 1942: The war is drawing ever closer, and Dorothy faces a heart-rending choice to flee the country she has come to call home. With warplanes advancing across the ocean, she is boarding a boat full of evacuees when...

Der Lyoner Anwalt Gaspard Bernaux hat zwei Probleme am Hals: einen schwierigen Prozess, in dem er an der Unschuld seines Mandanten zweifelt, und das schöne Lächeln von Charlotte, der Enkelin seiner Mandantin. Charlotte Martin ist Psychologiestudentin und begeisterte Surferin. Die Einladung ihrer tot geglaubten Großmutter nach Lyon weckt ihr Misstrauen. Was will ihre Großmutter nach all den Jahren? Was verbirgt der Anwalt?

"A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils.”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of The First Wave An enthralling story that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of...

Dieses zweisprachige Hörbuch bietet eine lebendige und praxisnahe Methode für Deutschsprachige, Französisch zu lernen und das Hörverständnis zu verbessern. Die ausgewählten Texte stammen aus dem echten Leben – aus Gesprächen, Medien, Reisen, Arbeit und Alltag – und zeigen, wie Französisch wirklich gesprochen und verstanden wird. Jeder Abschnitt präsentiert den französischen Originaltext zusammen mit der deutschen Übersetzung. So können Lernende Wortschatz und Grammatik im Zusammenhang erfassen, anstatt isolierte Vokabeln zu pauken.

The "endlessly compelling" (NYT Book Review) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on...

The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust...

An inviting new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America’s favorite storytellers...

Der Podcast bietet spannende Einblicke: Von Bildschirm-Gefahren über Reisen nach Saint-Tropez und Maurs-la-Jolie bis zu Sprache, Grammatik und Rezept – für jeden ist etwas dabei.

In this “extraordinary and brilliant book” (Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves), a prize-winning historian offers the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the...

Dreizehn kleine Rätsel warten auf Sie – und jedes hat eine überraschend einfache Lösung. In diesem Hörbuch lernen Sie Französisch durch kurze Mysteriengeschichten: eine mysteriöse Lichtquelle in einem leerstehenden Apartment, nasse Fußabdrücke, die nirgendwohin führen, ein Aufzug, der mitten in der Nacht alleine fährt. Die Geschichten sind absichtlich rätselhaft aufgebaut – Sie wollen wissen, was passiert, und genau diese Neugier treibt Ihr Lernen voran.

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE "An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the...

“A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart. I want everyone to read it; I want to press it into people’s hands. Surely one of the best novels I’ve ever read.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost Soon to be a...

Wolfgang has led a successful Crow raid north on the Blackfoot to steal horses. He returns to his village to find his people have suffered a Blackfoot raid and his wife has been taken captive. Wolfgang declares war on the Blackfoot nation. Alone, Wolfgang decides to take the war trail north.

This is a WW2 story of great courage and survival against almost impossible odds. During the year of 1942, Yvette Jackson, a young fun loving and very beautiful twenty year old girl was enjoying her second year as a medical student training to be a doctor. However, her world turned upside down when requested to attend the office of her professor, who informed her that she had an unknown visitor waiting for her. She’d received a visit from the mysterious caller, who simply called himself, Mr. Black. She discovered this man worked at the offices of “The Department of Fish & Fisheries” ...