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Improve German Vocabulary With Short Stories and Audio CD

It is always a challenge to find new and interesting ways to increase your German vocabulary. You will find it easier to learn in small chunks, and the ‘Kurz und bündig’ book/audio CD combo can help.

Diogenes Verlag from Zurich, Switzerland has gathered a selection of short stories from authors as diverse as Robert Walser, W. Somerset Maugham, Bertolt Brecht, Doris Dörrie, Mark Twain, the Bible, the Brothers Grimm, and many others from several countries around the world.

The book contains 100 stories, some as short as 20 words, up to a maximum of 4 1/2 pages. Subject matter ranges from funny to ridiculous to sad to perplexing, with several emotions in between. Diogenes introduces the reader to postal workers, fleas, mice, and ex-lovers. You will read about wishes and murders, watchmen and slippers. You will laugh and frown, and sometimes be left hanging without an answer.

Although the stories are in German, if you really need to find the English versions, you should be able to locate them on the Internet.

The CD package contains 65 stories, 45 of which are from the book. Of these 45, three have slightly different translations, but are still useful for learning purposes. Anna König and Hans Korte, who have slightly different accents, narrate the CD-based stories. Use the differences in enunciation as an opportunity for your ear to adjust to what is common with just about every foreign language – regional accents.

To utilize these German productions as learning tools, I recommend the following:

Start with the stories that are both on the CD and in the book.

Begin with the shortest story, learn the vocabulary, and then progress to the next.

Work your way through all 45 stories on the CD.

Now tackle the 55 stories out of the book that have no audio version.

Once again, begin with the shortest story and work up to the largest. You can estimate size by going to the ‘Inhalt’ (table of contents) and looking at the page numbers.

After you have completed the stories in the book, go through the remaining 20 stories on the CD. This part will be the most difficult, as you will be relying purely on your auditory language skills. However, you will already be familiar with the narrators’ voices, so the experience should be relatively painless.

The learning process will take you through a total of 120 stories. By the time you have completed the book and audio presentation, your German vocabulary should have improved dramatically, and you will have had some fun to boot!

For a list of the 45 stories that are common to both CD and book, see the link in the author’s resource box. There are two versions of the list:

Sorted by story size

Sorted by CD track

Kurz und bündig: Diogenes Verlag AG Zürich

Pocketbook: 213 Pages

Published: October, 2007

Language: German

ISBN-10: 3257236808

ISBN-13: 978-3257236804

Dimensions: 17.8×11.2×1.4 cm.

Audio book: 2 CDs

Published: October, 2007

Language: German

ISBN-10: 3257801661

ISBN-13: 978-3257801668

Dimensions: 14×12.4×1.4 cm.

(c) Copyright Kathy Steinemann: This article is free to publish only if this copyright notice, the byline, and the author’s note below (with active links) are included.

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A security guard or security officer is, usually, a privately-employed person who is employed to protect property and/or people. Usually security guards are uniformed and act to protect property by maintaining a high visibility presence and observing (either directly, through patrols, or by watching alarm systems or video cameras) for signs of crime, fire or disorder; then taking action and/or reporting any incidents to their client, employer and emergency services as appropriate.

The security officer motto is to “detect, deter, observe and report.” Security officers are not normally required to make arrests (but has the authority to make a citizens arrest) or otherwise act as police officers except in some United States jurisdictions in which the security officer is invested with arrest powers like those of a county sheriff. In contrast to the above mentioned motto, a Private Security Officer’s actual primary duty is prevention of crime. Security personnel do enforce company rules and can act to protect lives and property. In fact, they frequently have a contractual obligation to provide these actions. Security Officers are often trained to perform arrests, operate emergency equipment, perform first aid, CPR, take accurate notes and write effective reports, and perform other tasks as required by the property they are protecting. In case of Armed Security Officers who are also called Private Police Officers , are required to go through additional training mandated by the state for carrying weapons such as baton , firearms , handcuffing , arrest and control and pepper spray trainings .

One major economic justification for security guards is that insurance companies (particularly fire insurance carriers) will give substantial rate discounts to sites which have a 24-hour presence; for a high risk or high value venue, the discount can often exceed the money being spent on its security program. This is because having a security guard on site increases the odds that any fire will be noticed and reported to the local fire department before a total loss occurs. Also, the presence of security guards (particularly in combination with effective security procedures) tends to diminish “shrinkage,” theft, employee misconduct and safety rule violations, property damage, or even sabotage. Many casinos hire security guards to protect the money when transferring it from the casino to the casino’s bank.

Security officers also perform access control at building entrances and vehicle gates by ensuring that employees and visitors display proper passes or identification before entering the facility. Security officers are often called upon to respond to minor emergencies (lost persons, lockouts, dead vehicle batteries, etc.) and to assist in serious emergencies by guiding emergency responders to the scene of the incident and documenting what happened on an incident report. In case of armed security officers, often they are required to respond like police officers until situation is under control and / or proper authorities arrive on the scene.

Although security officers are a distinct type of personnel from either police officers or the military, in the United States a very high proportion of security personnel, including most senior management personnel, are either former or retired members of one or both services. Many security officers who don’t fit this profile (young people in particular) use the job as a springboard into a police career.

Being a private security officer is by no means a lucrative endeavor. Most first line private security personal are paid a low wage which often does not reflect the risks they endure on the job.

Security officers are classified as either of the following
“In-house” or “proprietary” (i.e. employed by the same company or organization they protect, such as a mall, theme park, or casino)
“Contract,” (working for a private security company which protects many locations.)
“Public security” or security police
“Private Patrol Officers” , Patrol gated communities. i.e. Bel-Air Patrol
“Private Police Officers”, also known as Armed Security Officers

Industry terms for various security personnel include: Security , guards, agents, watchmen, officers, safety patrol , Armed Security , Private Police ,Loss Prevention Officers , Bodyguards , Executive Protection Officers . Other job titles in the security industry include dispatcher, receptionist, driver, supervisor, alarm responder, armed security officer, and manager.

Newer terms have been developing within the American security industry that tend to reclassify security personnel into three basic classes, as follows:
Security guards: These personnel, usually uniformed, are primarily responsible for the protection of property only and do not have a responsibility for anything other than basic visibility and reporting. Examples of security guards include night watchmen on construction sites, bank vault guards, and monetary transport guards of money and valuables.

Security officers: These personnel, also usually uniformed, are employed in functions that involve the protection of lives, property and the public peace on private property. Examples of security officers include apartment complex security officers, mall security officers, private patrol officers, and any security personnel that operate in an environment that includes a contractual obligation for the protection of lives and/or the public peace.

Security agents: These personnel, usually without a uniform, are primarily contracted or employed with a focus on apprehension rather than prevention on private property. Examples of security agents include loss prevention agents and personal protection agents (bodyguards).

Security personnel are not police officers but are often confused with them due to similar uniforms and behaviors, especially on private property. Security personnel derive their powers not from the state, as public police officers do, but from a contractual arrangement that give them ‘Agent of the Owner’ powers. This includes a nearly unlimited power to question with the freedom of an absence of probable cause requirements that frequently dog public law enforcement officers. Additionally, as legal precedents have further restrained the traditional police officers’ power of “officer discretion” regarding arrests in the field, requiring a police officer to arrest minor lawbreakers, private security personnel still enjoy such powers of discretion largely due to their private citizen status. Since the laws regarding the limitations of powers generally have to do with public law enforcement, private security is relatively free to utilize non-traditional means to protect and serve their clients’ interests. This does not come without checks, however, as private security personnel do not enjoy the benefit of civil protection, as public law enforcement officers do, and can be sued directly for false arrests and illegal actions if they commit such acts.

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