German

by Paul G. Graves

Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, this new third editions of Learn German the Fast and Fun Way is suitable as language teaching book for adults as well as for older... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Audio Cassette
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812076834
• ISBN13: 9780812076837
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.9" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9

Customer Reviews

Learning German

I teach a conversational German class. I had about an hour to review primers at a major book chain. I picked Learn German by P. Graves out of about 15 other textbooks. It seemed to have a good mix of simple as well as up to date examples of German conversation. The illustrations appear childish at times but they do get the ideas translated very well. The fill in blanks are great with the answers upside down at the bottom of the page. This makes it much more convenient than having the answers at the end of the book that most others use. The feedback from my class so far is very positive. Ernst Jung

Learn German the Fast & Fun Way

Great Book! with CD even better. Will help with our missions trips to Germany. Basic level, but a lot of information to help learn German.

Das ist gut!

I have really enjoyed working through this book. It does focus a lot on the vocab you'll need if you are travelling to Germany. If you are looking for basic grammar, this tries to explain it, but may not be what you are looking for. The CDs help a lot, but you really need the book in front of you if you are listening to them, because they don't give the translation on the CDs. This forces you to follow along through the book. The phonetic spellings in the book are also very good to help improve your accent.

A very good tool for the traveller

There are a variety of basic german books and book/tape combinations available for the person who wants to learn a bit of the language primarily for travel purposes, i.e., shopping, eating out, making hotel reservations, etc. This seems to me to be one of the best of that genre. I'm not quite sure why, but it seemed to work better for me than any of the others of this ilk. The text is nicely done with amusing illustrations; and, more importantly, the exercises and tapes seem to go a long way to achieiving their desired end of teaching and implanting a bit of German. For the person who wants more than a smattering of German, may I recommend the other Barron's course, Mastering German (the old Foreign Service Insititute course) and the Berlitz, Think and Talk German, both of which are superb, but rather more demanding and pricey than any "tourist" course.