Intermediate German Short Stories

10 Captivating Short Stories to Learn German & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Intermediate German Stories)

By: Lingo Mastery

Narrated by: Kai Powalla

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's Summary

Improve your German skills and grow your vocabulary with these 10 entertaining German short stories!

The best part of learning a new language is experiencing the culture and diving into activities that will enrich your life and vocabulary. The best way to learn a new language is by hearing it, and in this German audiobook, you will find yourself wanting to get to the end of each captivating story that will engage your mind and help you improve your German.

In this audiobook, you will find:

• 10 captivating short stories that develop in circumstances such as traveling and personal relationships, among other topics that you will find easy to relate to.
• The stories are broken down into manageable chapters, so you always make progress with the story.
• Carefully written stories with you as an intermediate-level listener in mind, using straightforward grammar and commonly used words so you can enjoy listening while learning new grammatical structures without being overwhelmed.
• Plenty of natural dialogues in each story that you would actually use in an everyday conversation, which will drastically improve your speaking and comprehension ability at the same time!
• At the end of each chapter, there will be a comprehensive guide specially designed for intermediate-level listeners; it will take you through a summary of each story followed by a vocabulary of some of the words from the story to make sure that you understand the story fully.

Chapter by chapter, you will find yourself effortlessly understanding each story. Not struggling like in basic textbooks or boring reads. You will get involved by hearing the dialogue of the characters, by learning how to express yourself in different contexts, and, more importantly, by learning new German words that will get you closer to your goal of becoming fully conversational!

Enjoy the audiobook!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Great for conversational German

One of the distinguishing features of a typical intermediate language speaker is their conversational skills. Being at a basic proficiency with grammar, syntax and a bit of pronunciation is not enough; to achieve intermediate competence, fluency must be achieved at conversational level. This is what this book aims to achieve for its listeners as regards the German language. It presents well-organized stories that are paced at a conversational level. The sequence of stories have an increasing complexity about them, and this is great for consistent improvement in speaking and understanding the German language. Ultimately, practice is the key to mastery, but these stories will get the listener to the gate.


I received this book for free as a review copy. In return, I have left this unbiased review.

Another excellent book

I have reviewed a few short story language books by lingo mastery recently, and this is just another excellent one. I think the idea of learning via short stories is what I am most sold on, as it is easier for the learner to remember each lesson. Also, since this is for the intermediate learner, the context and vocabulary introduced are slightly more advanced. The idea is the same, listen continually and practice along with the stories. The goal is to ensure an improvement in pronunciation by mimicking the tone of the narrators, and to improve the listener's grasp on how certain words can be used in different contexts.


I received a free copy of this book from the author and I have left this unbiased review in return.

Useful and fun!

As a language enthusiast, I have had the pleasure of reviewing Lingo Mastery products in French, German, and Spanish. They are consistently good materials that help language learning if you use the PDFs that accompany the audio and do the work. That means you’ll have to read the PDFs and listen to the audio until you’re comfortable with everything, and along the way, you’ll pick up vocabulary for a variety of situations.

For this specific one in intermediate German, the stories are understandably longer. The vocabulary is expanded, but it doesn’t seem out of level for an intermediate learner. There is also less English in this, which is somewhat the point.

The narrator has a good voice for modeling German pronunciation. It’s my assertion that the language is not an ugly or angry sounding one at all, and this narrator is a good example of that. The nitpicky problems I had with him in the beginner level are not evident here. As a voice actor, he doesn’t read these stories with the same gusto and voice differentiation as a fiction narrator would, but he does try to make the characters sound different when he can.

In summary: This is a good and affordable tool that will help your German reading and listening if you do the work and use the tools provided.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Speaks FAR to fast

Shame the author speaks far too fast for an intermediate story. The audio sounds awful when slowed down on the app. Better off buying an actual audio book where they speak at a normal pace.

German stories are surprisingly nice.

What better way to learn a language than through stories? The passion, context and culture embedded in this book conveys exactly that point. It is a great concept to teaching the German language, especially to beginners. Also, the narrator is a native German speaker with a nice voice and accent. Listening to the narration helps the learner to properly practice the words they have learnt from the story or some other supplementary German learning material. Learning a word is important, but so is accent and pronunciation; this book offers all.

The authors of this book gifted me a free copy of this audiobook for my reference, and I have left this review as a result. This is unbiased review is meant to introduce potential listeners to the book and its relevance.

Lovely stories and voice of the presenter

the voice and pronunciation of the presenter is a big bonus!! love it. thank you!!

Fascinating stories and excellent narration.

The stories in this audiobook are quite interesting. Given that one has to be at some level of understanding of the German language to follow the stories easily, it is well translated for extra comprehension. The idea is to help those transitioning from beginners to master things like pronunciation and fluency in German. Altogether, good book.

I received this book for free as a review copy, and I have left this review in return.