Learn German the Fast and Fun Way [With German-English English-German Dictionary]

by Henry Strutz and Paul G. Graves

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764102168
• ISBN13: 9780764102165
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

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.