About the book "Learn German with a story. Krimi in Berlin"

Conservative French Hercule Poirot (no, he has nothing to do with the Hercule Poirot) comes to Berlin, only to discover that he became victim of a fraud: He paid the deposit for his flat, but the owner never showed up. He finally becomes a subtenant of Merk, ultra-left hacker, vegan, constantly broke - let's not speak of her half shaved skull, her tattoos and her tendency to use swear words. Hercule and she are the total opposite - maybe that's why the start working together really well. What they discover is so much more serious than the deposit fraud..


Learn German as a foreign language simply be reading their story. This concept of foreign language study is also known as  "Easy German Reading". With this book, there is one speciality: You'll learn a lot of important slang words, phrases and proverbs - exactly what you need to make your German more fluent and more native at the level of B1-B2. The story doesn't only focus on German vocabulary for Crime and dedective stories, but mainly on everyday life, including the expression of positive and negative feelings.
Therefore, the story has a lot of spoken language - the best way to improve your German language.

How helps this book to learn German?

Studying a foreign language should be fun. Often, the study of German as a foreign language is considered to be hard and tedious. With this book, its nice & crazy characters, the funny dialogues and every-day, "real" situations, learning German becomes more natural.

Over 1 hour of Audio material is included as a free download. So, you can learn German while listening to the crime story in the car etc...

What readers said about the crime story

It really made me laugh. If you know Berlin a bit, this book is a must. (Mary A., age 29, British)

It was a really good way to learn German vocabulary, especially because I could listen to the story! (Andrew S., age 40, Australian)

Finally a story to learn German that uses spoken language as my friends colleagues at work do. (Antonio T., age 36, Italian)