German graded readers

Stories sized to your German

These are Yak Yacker retellings — classic tales rewritten in German banded from A1 to B1 reading levels, not a bookshop.

Reading a story you half-know lets you absorb vocabulary and case endings without stopping to look things up every second line.

Start at A1 with short, simple sentences, and work up to B1, where the storytelling gets richer.

It's the comfiest way to make German stick.

Read stories, absorb endings, skip the flashcard grind.