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Offline Tris20Topic starter

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I'm a natural English speaking Electronics student who has decent German, but I'm looking to improve over the summer so I can consider jobs in Germany. Is there any reading material you could recommend for me? Something electronics based would be preferred but some sci-fi for example would be good too. Just so long as it still uses technical terms. The main aim here is to try and develop an engineering vocabulary in German.
Thanks in advance

Kann jemand empfehlen, ein paar gute Fachliteratur auf Deutsch? English ist meine mutter-sprache aber ich kann ein bischen Deutsche. Ich mochte meine Deutsch verbessern wiel Ich mochte im Deutschland ein paar jare arbeiten. Etwas uber Elektronisch-sachen werde sehr gut sein. Es konnte auch veliecht fiktion sein weil ich glaube das siemlich spass werde sein, aber der Hauptziel ist einer Ingenieur Vokabular auf Deutsche zu entwickeln.

Auch, ob es gibt ein paar fehler im dieser hier-oben Absatz, kanst du bitte etwas sagen.

Vielen dank

 

Offline con-f-use

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2014, 06:06:14 pm »
Auch, ob es gibt ein paar fehler im dieser hier-oben Absatz, kanst du bitte etwas sagen.

Klar, gerne! Besser ist:

Bitte sagt mir auch, wenn im Absatz oben Fehler sind.

Kann mir jemand gute Fachliteratur auf Deutsch empfehlen? Englisch ist meine Muttersprache, aber ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch. Ich will mein Deutsch verbessen, weil ich in Deutschland ein paar Jahre arbeiten möchte. Es könnte auch Science Fiction (we use the term too) sein, weil das auch Spaß sein könnte. Mein Hauptziel ist aber meinen Fachwortschatz zu verbessern.
 

Offline Tris20Topic starter

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2014, 06:18:18 pm »
Genau! Deutlich macht das ein bisschen mehr sinn. Es hat vielleicht sechs jahre seit ich meiner Deutsche wirklich benuzt haben. Wissen sie etwas vielleicht von Österreich die Ich lesen kann?
 

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2014, 06:24:41 pm »
Kann jemand empfehlen, ein paar gute Fachliteratur auf Deutsch?

Such mal nach "Die hohe Schule der Elektronik", dies ist die deutsche Version von "The Art Of Electronics". Dann kannst Du sogar den Inhalt der Kapitel vergleichen, falls etwas das Du in deutsch gelesen hast nicht verständlich war. -> ISBN-13: 978-3895760242

Have a look for "Die hohe Schule der Elektronik". This is a translation of "The Art Of Electronics". It might be good to have the opportunity to compare the content if something is not clear to understand.

Another good book is "Halbleiter-Schaltungstechnik" from "Ulrich Tietze" ->  ISBN-13: 978-3642310256

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2014, 06:31:01 pm »
You're a very rare species ;) A classic electronics book is "Halbleiter-Schaltungstechnik, Tietze/Schenk", unfortunately quite expensive but a standard for EE students.
 

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2014, 07:06:15 pm »
Wenn es dir hauptsächlich ums Vokabular geht, könnten auch ältere Bücher in Frage kommen,
ich denke da an Bücher von z.B. Dieter Nührmann.

Ein paar Links die dir weiterhelfen könnten:

http://www.zvab.com/displayBookDetails.do?itemId=233500455&b=1

http://www.zvab.com/quickSearch.do?anyWords=dieter+n%FChrmann&x=0&y=0

http://www.zvab.com/displayBookDetails.do?itemId=195461017&b=1

Auch im Netz gibt es vielleicht einige Interessante Seiten:

http://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/

http://www.mikrocontroller.net/


Are you considering taking a language course? I'm pretty sure there are courses with more emphasis on technical language available.
No offence but your German grammar's not so good, your vocab looks allright though.

Maybe I should also point you here, English expats in Germany: http://www.toytowngermany.com/ We Germans do apparently have our own special idiosyncracies ;).
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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2014, 07:21:33 pm »
@hammy:
Seh ich genauso - oder ich suche auch falsch  :)
 

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2014, 08:21:30 pm »


Here is a link to a free book about semiconductor basics. Prof. Stefan Goßner provides this book online for free and printed it costs round about 20€. The book is a collection of his lecture papers.

Hier ist ein Link zu einem kostenlosen Buch über Halbleiter Grundlagen. Prof. Stefan Goßner bietet dieses Buch online kostenlos an und als gedruckte Ausgabe kostet es circa 20€. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung seiner Vorlesungsunterlagen.

http://www.prof-gossner.de
 

Offline Tris20Topic starter

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2014, 11:42:01 pm »


Are you considering taking a language course? I'm pretty sure there are courses with more emphasis on technical language available.
No offence but your German grammar's not so good, your vocab looks allright though.


None taken. Grammar was always something I turned a blind eye to in school, but as you say it's now the biggest weakness.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Might need to wait until my next loan payment comes through for some of those books though!
 

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2014, 03:15:50 am »
None taken. Grammar was always something I turned a blind eye to in school, but as you say it's now the biggest weakness.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Might need to wait until my next loan payment comes through for some of those books though!

German grammar is highly "interesting". It's one of the reasons, perhaps, that I got a D grade in the exam. For amusement:

The Awful German Language by Mark Twain

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Now here is a sentence from a popular and excellent German novel — which a slight parenthesis in it. I will make a perfectly literal translation, and throw in the parenthesis-marks and some hyphens for the assistance of the reader — though in the original there are no parenthesis-marks or hyphens, and the reader is left to flounder through to the remote verb the best way he can:

"But when he, upon the street, the (in-satin-and-silk-covered-now-very-unconstrained-after-the-newest-fashioned-dressed) government counselor's wife met," etc., etc. [1]


  • Wenn er aber auf der Strasse der in Sammt und Seide gehüllten jetzt sehr ungenirt nach der neusten Mode gekleideten Regierungsräthin begegnet.

That is from The Old Mamselle's Secret, by Mrs. Marlitt. And that sentence is constructed upon the most approved German model. You observe how far that verb is from the reader's base of operations; well, in a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all.
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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2014, 11:17:37 am »
Grammatik kommt von selbst, wenn man viel spricht und liest. Die deutschen Grammatik-Regeln sind nur ein (schlechter) Versuch, das Chaos zu ordnen. Meistens sind sie nutzlos, weil es mehr Ausnahmen gibt, als Fälle wo sie gelten. Ignorier Grammatik und konzentriere dich auf Bücher, Filme und Serien auf Detusch!

Auch ein Problem ist, dass so gut wie jeder in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz Englisch spricht. Du muss schon darauf bestehen, dass sie Deutsch mit dir reden!

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Grammar comes naturally, if you speak and read the language alot. German grammar rules are just a weak attempt to bring order to the chaos. Most of the time, they are useless. There are more exceptions than cases they apply to. Ignore grammar and concentrate on Books, Films and TV-shows.

Another problem is that nearly everyone in Germany, Austria or Switzerland speaks English. You have to insists to speak German with you.
 

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2014, 02:04:35 pm »
Someone mentioned Dieter Nührmann, I have his "Das grosse Werkbuch Elektronik" which is a technical book about electronics in 4 volumes (the edition I have at least has 4). It covers a lot of the technical background but also offers valuable practical information on for example electronic components or different (rechargeable) battery types and the methods used to charge them.

here's a link to a "Leseprobe" it includes the table of contents pages and a few random pages (which suck IMO and the quality of the scan is poor too) but you get an idea of what is covered.

http://www.elv-downloads.de/downloads/Leseproben/45888_Inhalt_Lese.pdf

 

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2014, 02:20:20 pm »
This forum has turned german ???
The funniest thing about this signature is that by the time you realize it doesn't say anything its too late to stop reading it.
 

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2014, 05:56:33 pm »
None taken. Grammar was always something I turned a blind eye to in school, but as you say it's now the biggest weakness.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Might need to wait until my next loan payment comes through for some of those books though!

German grammar is highly "interesting". It's one of the reasons, perhaps, that I got a D grade in the exam. For amusement:

The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
Dutch has similar and even more complex constructs. Being able to put subject, time and location anywhere in a sentence allows to carefully craft context and emphasis. But it takes decades to master. Learning to speak and read/write Chinese is probably easier.

Knowing a bit of German is handy though when travelling. As I found out there are still very touristic places in Germany where people can't speak any English.
There are small lies, big lies and then there is what is on the screen of your oscilloscope.
 

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Re: Can anyone recommend some good technical literature in German?
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2014, 08:11:22 pm »
hello Tris,

on my homepage you find a little community for old scopes collecting and restoration. "Forum"  :)

have fun.

nette Grüße
Martin
 


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