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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | 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 children. It instructs beginners in the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking German. The book lightens language-learning routines with cartoon-style illustrations, language games, and puzzles. A set of vocabulary flashcards and a small staple-bound bilingual dictionary booklet are bound into the book's spine and can be easily removed for supplementary use. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | P. Graves | | Paperback: | 272 pages | | Publisher: | Barron's Educational Series | | Publication Date: | January 01, 2004 | | Language: | German | | ISBN: | 0764125400 | | Package Length: | 9.9 inches | | Package Width: | 7.9 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 10 reviews |
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 Learning German Apr 24, 2008
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
 Could be alot better Apr 13, 2008
I deffinately wouldn't use this if i didn't know any German at all seeing that it starts you off with a passage that you need some German knowledge for. Despite having the English traslation right next to it, its not always literal and you can't just absorb words through osmosis.
The beginning however is really well set up with a good basic German vocab and grammar, and dialogues that are reasonably challenging but not too challenging.
After half the book though, it just throws too many words at you at one time and expects you to memmorize them all on the spot.
I'd recomend Lustige Dialoge instead of this book if you have some previous German knowledge. Lustige Dialoge puts a reasonable amount of new vocab out per chapter, and with vocab cards all of that book can be more easily and less painfully mastered
Learn German the Fast & Fun Way Mar 18, 2007
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.
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Das ist gut! Jul 12, 2006
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.
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Review Mar 15, 2006
I am a native German speaker who used this for a continuing education course at the local community college. I chose it because it did seem at first to be perfect. However, some things I found were:
The author seems to have rather many Austrian expressions as opposed to standard German. Other than Austrian expressions, there are words I never heard of and would not use in modern German conversation. I noted also that past and future tenses were not addressed. I will not use it for beginners again.
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