Rilke: Learn German

Read Rilke as he wrote: in German, line by line, with the English at your side. This is a guided edition of the Neue Gedichte, both parts, 1907 and 1908. One hundred seventy-two poems, The Panther and the Archaic Torso of Apollo among them, nothing cut. Tap any line for a clear translation and a word-by-word gloss; tap any word for its form and its job in the line. The grammar is taught from the poems themselves, not from a textbook. Every poem is read aloud in German. Follow the voice word by word, or let a whole collection play while you listen. When you are ready, say a line back: your reading is scored on your device, and nothing you say leaves it. You don't need any German to begin. The Study tab holds the Foreign Service Institute's German Basic Course of 1961, transcribed word for word and carried by its own tape recordings, the voices of the speakers who made it. Both volumes,…