From a book for beginners learning German, Märchen und Erzählungen, comes story #3 titled: Der Hausvater. These stories all are effectively lessons in Vocabulary and Grammar. They aren't just another set of engaging stories. As the editor relates in the Preface, they are carefully written to repeat throughout so as to help the reader better remember the vocabulary.  Have you ever heard about people that are professional reciters? That is, those who train their brains to remember vast amounts of information and turn around to recite it from memory. I had heard that they all use a certain technique that associates words or figures with certain images or ideas. Many of those reciters have said that the more silly the association the more likely they are to recall the target vocabulary, etc.  In a way, It seems that these stories are quite like the reciters' techniques for memorizing. The stories presented in this volume are very silly stories that have contain an aspect that is quite absurd, according to our reality. Story #3, Der Hausvater, has two extremely silly elements. 1) There is an old man who is scarcely as big as a little child. 2) The traveler must ask who he assumes to be the Man of the House, but is referred to another man, and then another, an so. 3) (Listen in to find out if there is a third element of silliness. --Is it about age?) To read the stories for yourself and share your recording with me or in your own podcast, go to Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35794 #deutsch #German #stories #derhausvater #beginningGerman #Deutschfueranfaenger #maerchen #märchen #erzaehlungen #erzählungen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/learnitslow/message