German for Dummies | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paulina Christensen, Anne Fox
Creator: Juergen Lorenz
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 78766
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0764551957
Dewey Decimal Number: 438.3421
UPC: 785555006164
EAN: 9780764551956
ASIN: 0764551957
Publication Date: April 24, 2000
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Product Description
You’ll find German spoken all over the world–German tourists are famously intrepid–and especially across much of Europe, including (besides Germany, of course) Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy, the Czech Republic, and several other countries. Whether you’re taking a trip to Germany or just want to surprise your German neighbor with a “hi-how-are-you,” learning this language will help you see the world and yourself from an entirely different perspective. German For Dummies uses the renowned Berlitz approach to get you up and running with the language–and having fun too! Designed for the total beginner, this guide–with dialogue and pronunciation audio CD included–will introduce you to basic grammar, then speedily have you talking about: - Dining out
- Shopping
- The office
- Planning a trip
- Recreation
- Partying
- Trains, planes, and automobiles
In addition to the audio conversations, fun and games sections ease your way into German fluency, while phonetic spellings following expressions and vocabulary improve your pronunciation, and helpful boxes and sidebars cover cultural quirks and factoids. And, in trademark For Dummies fashion, you’ll go beyond expressions for checking train schedules or buying potatoes to learn: - Things never to say in German
- Ways to pick up German quickly
- Phrases that make you sound German
- Holidays to remember
- Emailing and Internet vocabulary
- German TV and movie vocabulary
- How to browse and window-shop in Germany with style
Whether you’re just looking for a greeting besides “Guten tag,” or you want to host a foreign exchange student, or want to become one yourself, German For Dummies gives you what you need to learn the language–as much as you like, as fast as you like. Gehen wir! (gehn veer) (Let’s get going!)
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 Great service September 22, 2008
After a little mix-up on the initial order, this vendor made it right with flying colors! I would definetly do business with them again. They stood behind their product 100%.
 It not easy to learn a foregin language. April 11, 2008
As a non- English speaker, there is a hindrance for me to use this book. It might be the reason that I don't have the talent for learning German. The way it teach pronunciation is not accessible for me. After all, it still useful in the dialogue part, because it contains audio CD for listening.
Good as a reference book December 31, 2007
This book does a decent job at teaching you some basic vocabulary, though it does have a lot of list of random words that would take a while to memorize for their usefulness. Its got pretty good grammar explanations and charts for how to modify the endings and how to change pronouns depending on what case they take. You learn some conversational german, but not a ton. Now i just use this as a refference book for looking up how to change der, die, and das (the) according to the case of the word and other stuff like that. Its not really great though for use other than that
Lot's of typos March 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a good book but you're not going to get a lot of foundation - cute exercises but not a lot of meat
Awesome For German Students June 26, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I`ve taken german class at my highschool for 2 years, but could not finish due to schedual difficulties. I bought this book to continue learning on my own and I must say, This is the best investment I have ever made on my road to learning german. Be wary though, I do not recommend this book for people who have no background in german, this book fails to explain basic fundamentals that are nessessary for a german student to learn. Overlooking this fact, this book's information is usefull and explains everything in a simple to understand format. It comes with an audio CD with most of the conversations from the book. I like this feature because it helps me to understand the tone and pronounciation of native german speakers. Another area where this book fails is it's dictionary. I recomend you purchase a english/german german/english dictionary for use with this book. But overall, I HIGHLY recommend this book for anyone who is seriously intrested in learning German.
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