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ADVANCED LEARNING MATERIAL FOCUSED ON IMPROVING LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Combined audio & printed materials that are especially designed to improve one's listening comprehension of native speakers in conversation. Includes audio recording of native speaker[s] and accompanying full transcript in PG dialect with interlinear English translation.
Deitsche Schtories vum Harry Lauer. (Pennsylvania German Stories from Harry Lauer.) A series of stories told by Harry Lauer in Pennsylvania Dutch about life on a farm near the village of Admire, Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania German text with between-the-lines English translation and accompanying CD audio recordings. 22 pages. Handmade 8"x11" booklet bound with heavy-duty staples. Butch Reigart, translator and editor.
This booklet provides an excellent resource for advanced-level students. The combined audio & printed materials are especially designed to improve one's listening comprehension. Includes audio recordings of a native speaker speaking at a fast pace telling stories and an accompanying full transcript in the PG dialect with interlinear English translation.
For a sample of the audio, please click below:
Edwin R. Danner tells 77 jokes in Pennsylvania German in an evening of Dutch humor at the old schoolhouse in Jefferson, PA. An additional 123 jokes in Pennsylvania German are presented in text only. Pennsylvania German text of the 200 jokes with between-the-lines English translation of the first 77 and accompanying CD audio recordings of Edwin R. Danner telling the first 77 jokes. 28 pages with a 4-page word list appendix. Handmade pamphlet. Butch Reigart, translator and editor.
This booklet provides an excellent resource for advanced-level students. The combined audio & printed materials are especially designed to improve one's listening comprehension. Includes audio recordings of a native speaker speaking at a fast pace telling stories and an accompanying full transcript in the PG dialect with interlinear English translation.
For a sample of the audio, please click below:
A Pennsylvania German conversation with Jessie Stambaugh at his home in Pigeon Hills (Jackson Twp.) of southwest York County, Pennsylvania about "this, that & everything else." Also featuring Henry Miller. 34 pages with 1 audio CD. Handmade 8"x11" booklet bound with heavy-duty staples. Butch Reigart, translator and editor.
This booklet provides an excellent resource for advanced-level students. The combined audio & printed materials are especially designed to improve one's listening comprehension of native speakers in conversation. Includes audio recordings of native speakers speaking at a fast pace and an accompanying full transcript in the PG dialect with interlinear English translation.
For a sample of the audio, please click below:
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