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Free Download The Singer’s Guide to German Diction By Valentin Lanzrein, Richard Cross
2018 | 314 Pages | ISBN: 0190238402 | PDF | 5 MB
The Singer’s Guide to German Diction is the essential foundation for a complete course in German diction for singers, vocal coaches, choral conductors, and anyone wishing to learn the proper pronunciation of High German. Written by Valentin Lanzrein and Richard Cross, who each have years ofexperience on stage, in the voice studio, and in the diction classroom, it provides an all-encompassing and versatile reference for the rules of German diction and their exceptions.Featuring an easily navigable format that uses tables and charts to support a visual understanding of the text, this guide allows the reader to find information on diction rules and quick help with the formation of each sound. It also places an emphasis on exceptions to the rules, which are crucialin learning the proper pronunciation of any language. Exceptions are not only provided with the diction rules, but are also gathered in a specific section for ease of reference. A glossary of difficult words, names, and exceptions is provided in the appendix, along with a section on Latin pronouncedin the German manner.Extensive pronunciation exercises, as well as IPA transcription worksheets and short examples from the vocal literature, are used for practical application of the diction rules, and feature musical exercises drawn from art song, opera, and oratorio. The book’s companion website supplements thesemusical exercises with high-quality audio clips recorded by leading professional singers, providing an invaluable resource for independent study. A comprehensive companion for teachers, students, and singers alike, The Singer’s Guide to German Diction brings German diction to life through itswell-structured system of practice and reference materials.

Free Download Learn German: 40+ Hours: Learn German While You Sleep Without Studying Grammar Rules. Includes Short Stories, Common Phrases, Dialogues and Conversations with Vocabulary! (German Edition) by Chris Martins
German, English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQ9DMHK4 | 160 pages | EPUB | 0.27 Mb
Are you learning, or thinking about learning, how to speak German?

Free Download Joe Saunders, "Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self"
English | ISBN: 1350187755 | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Freedom after Kant situates Kant’s concept of freedom in relation to leading philosophers of the period to trace a detailed history of philosophical thinking on freedom from the 18th to the 20th century. Beginning with German Idealism, the volume presents Kant’s writings on freedom and their reception by contemporaries, successors, followers and critics.

Free Download Learn German – Reading And Listening Comprehension For A2+
Published 3/2023
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Language: English | Size: 1.43 GB | Duration: 2h 54m
Improve your German and learn fun facts about Germany and the Germans through short texts

Free Download German Language Intensive Course A1 Beginner
Published 3/2023
Created by Esther Hartwig
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 113 Lectures ( 8h 12m ) | Size: 4.52 GB

Free Download Lars Eckstein, "Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements"
English | ISBN: 0367421593 | 2019 | 152 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies.

Free Download On the Literature and Thought of the German Classical Era: Collected Essays By Hugh Barr Nisbet
2021 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 1783747692 | PDF | 11 MB
This elegant collection of essays ranges across eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, covering philosophy, science, literature and religion in the ‘Age of Goethe.’ A recognised authority in the field, Nisbet grapples with the major voices of the Enlightenment and gives pride of place to the figures of Lessing, Herder, Goethe and Schiller.These eleven essays range widely in their compass of thought and intellectual discourse, dealing incisively with themes including the philosophical implications of literature and the relationship between religion, science and politics. The result is an accomplished reflection on German thought, but also on its rebirth, as Nisbet argues for the relevance of these Enlightenment thinkers for the readers of today.The first half of this collection focuses predominantly on eighteenth-century thought, where names like Lessing, Goethe and Herder, but also Locke and Voltaire, feature. The second has a wider chronological scope, discussing authors such as Winckelmann and Schiller, while branching out from discussions of religion, philosophy and literature to explore the sciences. Issues of biology, early environmentalism, and natural history also form part of this volume. The collection concludes with an examination of changing attitudes towards art in the aftermath of the ‘Age of Goethe.’The essays in this volume have been previously published separately, but are brought together in this collection to present Nisbet’s widely-acclaimed perspectives on this fascinating period of German thought. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the intellectual life of Europe during the Enlightenment, while its engaging and lucid style will also appeal to the general reader

Free Download German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self By Angela Kuttner Botelho
2021 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 3110737221 | PDF | 6 MB
Writing the Jewish Self explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary milieu. Utilizing archival family texts and multiple interviews spanning three generations, beginning with the author’s German Jewish parents, 1940s refugees, and engaging the insights of contemporary scholars, the book traces the impact of a contested Jewish identity on the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Jewish self. The Holocaust as post-memory and the impact of the German Jewish culture personified by the author’s parents leads to a retrieval of a lost Jewish identity, postmodern in its implications, reinforcing the concept of Judaism as ultimately a family affair. Focusing on the personal to illuminate a complex historical phenomenon, this book proposes a new cultural history that challenges conventional boundaries of what is Jewish and what is not.

Free Download From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture By Roger Paulin
2021 | 420 Pages | ISBN: 1800642121 | PDF | 23 MB
From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories – all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible.As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often underexplored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature.The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays – to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history – cannot be overstated.

Free Download Contemporary German Writers, Their Aesthetics and Their Language By Arthur Williams (editor), Stuart Parkes (editor), Julian Preece (editor)
1996 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 3906755886 | PDF | 11 MB
The aesthetic and linguistic concerns of German-language writers are explored against the backdrop of a readership in transition. Two essays examine intertextuality as a concept and as a phenomenon in the work of Christa Wolf, before the first main set (aesthetics) addresses narrative techniques (Jurek Becker, Wolfgang Hilbig, Hans Joachim Schädlich), formal experimentation (Ror Wolf, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Hanns-Josef Ortheil), allegory (Christoph Ransmayr), metaphor (Eveline Hasler), feminine aesthetics (Brigitte Kronauer, Anne Duden), and links between literature and photography (Rolf Dieter Brinkmann). The second main group presents a series of analyses of language as problem and practice: Sprachlosigkeit (Ilse Aichinger, Robert Schneider), logocentricity and etymology (Heinrich Böll, Elisabeth Reichart), and authenticity and cliché (Werner Schwab, Rainald Goetz), Ralf Schnell’s concluding essay is an assessment of a situation which allows writers more freedom as the shackles of the past are cast off.