Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses

by Astrid Henschel

Book Overview

Go Beyond Conjugation and Learn the Correct Verb Tenses for Speaking and Writing in GermanIf you're looking for help memorizing German verbconjugations, any German verb book will do. But if you are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071451374
• ISBN13: 9780071451376
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This book is very, very helpful. It introduces the grammatical concept, notes any important exceptions, gives a few helpful examples, and then lets gives you several practice exercises with a full answer key in the back. It is extremely comprehensive, covering the Present Tense, the Narrative and Conversational Past tenses, the Future Tense, and the Subjunctive Mood. The Modal Auxiliaries are given extensive treatment in all tenses. Early on I was frustrated that it did not seem to indicate which form of "Sie" it wanted you to conjugate, but then I realized the fragments in the exercises actually form a cohesive narrative and you can induce which form of "Sie" it is by simply following the story. This book is also an excellent way to build your vocabulary; whenever you encounter a verb or noun you are unfamiliar with you can jot it down and look it up. Overall highly recommended for the intermediate German student. (Beginners look elsewhere)

Practice makes Perfect is Perfect!

I'm a MS & HS German teacher and I think this book is a great resource for teaching students or teaching yourself. Each new section begins with an explanation of the grammar concept, followed by several practice exercises. The explanations & exercises are very comprehensive and the answer key is included in the back of the book. I own all three books in the series (Pronouns & Prepositions, Verb Tenses, & Vocabulary) and I recommend them all! *Watch for Astrid Henschel's other book by the name of "German Verb Drills" (it's purple & white) it's handy, but for the same price the Practice Makes Perfect book is twice the size. Stick with this one!

Recommend Buying This Book

The German Verb Tenses book is a very helpful book if you have a working knowledge of German. It may be to difficult for the very beginner German student. I have personally found the German Verb Tenses book to help me improve my correspondence with my German email friends. I have an extensive vocabuary of verbs and their tenses; however, I am learning many new verbs and vocabulary in general from the Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses book. I highly recommend buying this book if you want to be fluent in German, you won't be sorry.