Recommendations for Graded Readers🙏

[Abstormal]

I have to check out this list later, but had to look at your “emoji story”
Ok, now THIS I found entertaining!
I will definitely read through what you have so far, that was fun!

[NicoleIsEnough]

Sorry for derailing this thread so badly
I’m a bit of a grammar nerd (in German) and I am also a natural proofreader - which is quite annoying tbh because I keep bumping into those errors even when I just want to read something…

Discussion about the German text

What I would consider true errors:

1. “aus der Arbeit”: I think this must be “von der Arbeit”. At first I thought this might be a regional thing, but I checked Linguee and did did not show me a single occurrence that would fit. (Of course there are things like “resultiert aus der Arbeit” but that’s a different meaning altogether.)
2. “Später kommt der Arzt rein”: “rein” is casual and cannot be used in written language. It must be “herein”.
3. “strecke deine Zunge aus”: That one gave me a good chuckle. One can say “strecke deine Hand aus” (extend your hand) but not “strecke deine Zunge aus” - it must be “strecke deine Zunge heraus” (because it appears from inside the mouth).
4. “Ich verschreibe dir ein Rezept.” - Nope. One doesn’t prescribe a prescription, one prescribes a drug. “Ich verschreibe Dir ein Medikament.”

Doubtful passages in my opinion:

1. “Ich rufe Sie auf, wenn Sie dran sind.” - “dran” is casual, but the nurse is talking quite formal. Therefore I would expect “wenn Sie an der Reihe sind.”
2. “strecke deine Zunge” - the doctor is speaking casual language to the child, but “strecke” is more formal, so I would expect “streck” here.
3. Q1: “Was hat Julia für eine Krankheit?” - This word order sounds a bit weird to me. I’d rather say “Was für eine Krankheit hat Julia?” to keep “was für eine” together.
4. Q3: “nach der Arztpraxis” - technically speaking, this should be “nach dem Besuch der Arztpraxis” because they don’t do “eine Arztpraxis”, they do “einen Besuch”. The question as it is written down is very sloppy casual speech at best.

Bottomline: German is hard

And before anybody gets funny ideas, I of course have many areas where I still learn more… I have a German-Japanese tandem partner, and she often asks questions where I feel totally out of my wits and need to ask Dr. Google myself for grammatical explanations and whether a certain phrase is valid or not…

[Abstormal]

Mice are canibalistic, mice eat mice (and frogs eats anything that moves, including mice )
I know it’s about language and not actual real facts, I just cleaned out a half eaten mouse in my cage today just before reading this

[drdru]

Ahah thanks. Glad you like it.

[beyondandabove1]

Regarding the thread: I’m currently going through the Tadoku graded readers (I think), but so far I cannot really recommend anything. :-/

Regarding the German

Thank you! And now that you’ve mentioned everything, I can totally see these errors myself I haven’t read much German prose, so it wasn’t as obvious to me initially.

Also I’d even say that the formal-informal speech used could be construed as incorrect. If it is a child, why would the nurse be so formal? If it’s not a child, but maybe a late teenager, why would the doctor be so informal?

[NicoleIsEnough]

OK, one last response, promise!

@beyondandabove1

Also I’d even say that the formal-informal speech used could be construed as incorrect. If it is a child, why would the nurse be so formal? If it’s not a child, but maybe a late teenager, why would the doctor be so informal?

I imagined the scene as mother and daughter coming to the doctor’s, so at the reception the nurse would mainly talk to the mother, hence the formal speech. But the doctor would mainly address the daughter (I was envisioning maybe a 10-12 year old child or so?), hence the informal speech.
But I totally agree with you, this is up to lots of interpretation, and given the real situation, the text may contain more errors in that regard.