This collection of short stories of Jutta Mahlke, a contemporary German author, covers themes from travels to lovely spots and murky worlds, distant continents and space, to issues of growing up and finding one's place, education, environmental issues, all of it piece by piece artfully enriched with bits of old tales and even some science fiction. This revised and illustrated 2nd edition of "Seventeen!!" now shines in two-colored Black & Green print, the ultimate English - German Reader of Short Stories and Kurzgeschichten of the author, an easy/medium reader for those who love both languages.
About the Author: Jutta Mahlke, M.A., is a contemporary author of both, English and German short fiction/Kurzgeschichten. The shorter, the better! She is an Applied Linguist and teacher of math, music and both languages. Her teaching has taken her places and taught her a lot about people and how language is used ... primary and secondary schools, Goethe institutes, universities, even business language now and then, experience in coordinating educational or language projects at different places, among them Germany, the USA, Scandinavia and South Africa. Writing short stories is in between. It focuses ... and it shares thoughts with the reader, ... in a way. She has during the past years grown in artfully and skillfully composing text, music and languages. She enjoys creating a little more exciting language learning material, e.g. short stories for teens and grown-ups, musical plays for kids and for some, foreign language columns in newspapers, learning games in FL periodica. She published a series of scientific books while teaching and had children in secondary schools and students write stories in school or Writing at university level, some were successfully published and presented i.e. websites with adventure stories or new fairy tale, and started a subnet of the Int'l Tandem Network at Bochum university in the 90s, which many students enjoyed a lot as well as some teachers did the media-engineering with it in the afternoon workshops at various higher education places worldwide, last at Greifswald University. Tandem language learning is not a method but a way of autonomous further language learning, it's didactic and has conquered millions since across the world, most during studies or even work periods abroad, e.g. engineers or researcher, for a short while in authentic exchange. Some additional short pieces of her scientific or educational work she shared in librairies. Environmental issues is another of her favorite topics. Just have a look in the store! To find out more about her books and ebooks: http: //fachübersetzung-mahlke.de/Literatur