This second edition of learning German features new and enhanced material and a fresh look to help make learning German easy and fun. This description may be from another edition of this product.
It came exactly in the condition it was promised. It did not take long either which is always a plus.
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I was shopping for German instruction books the other day at the book store and this was the first one I found. I had looked at German for Dummies as well, but wasn't as impressed. All of the other products were on CD, which I didn't bother with (unless it's one of those audio-only listening disks) since I'm more comfortable with books here. So I bought it. So far it's proving to be a great book, for the price. It's the same...
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All errors aside, this book is great for me! The only way to get around the errors are to have a suplementary book and a supplementary class, but I really like the "We are Family" exerpts where they draw relations to German and English. This stuff goes really deep, as it often relates between Old and Middle english with German. Its nothing like most books that state, "Many words from German are in English like 'Kindergarten,...
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This book is helpful for someone who knows very little-nothing about German language. It touches on culture, and is a nice source book for learning German. However, if the reader knows basics of the German language, I would recommend a different book. This is a nice great book for the clueless. :o)
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This book has one *MAJOR* thing going for it that I had not seen in many other books related to learning German. This is that nearly every phrase/saying/word and sentence has the pronunciation of the German words in English phonetics. This is perhaps the most helpful and useful thing that an absolute beginner in learning German needs to have in order to get the pronunciation right (well...nearly right)and develop a feel for...
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