- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; 5th Revised edition edition (19 May 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340596724
- ISBN-13: 978-0340596722
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 329,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This edition of this German course is intended for people new to the language or those wishing to "brush up" on existing skills. It presents a step-by-step guide to the core vocabulary and grammar of German. This edition has been revised by Delia Sexton to ensure that all cultural and linguistic references are up to date. The book includes exercises to help practice the language skills acquired. The course is accompanied by a cassette - available separately or in a book/cassette pack.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book really helped me to learn German again with all the texts, exercises and vocabulary. I really progressed very rapidly with it.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This is the only German textbook I've used that I've really liked. It is interesting and fairly easy to work through, with each chapter providing some grammar, reading, vocabulary and exercises.
The pace is just right, I just wish that there had been a Living German 2!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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I first bought this book, by accident really, about ten years ago. I have yet to find a better introduction, in print, to the pretty daunting German tongue. I can remember my old English tutor telling me that German was an easy language to learn, for English speakers, as the two languages are so closely related, as they originate from a common source. Don't you believe it! Whilst I concede that amongst the indo-european group the celtic and the slavic examples are probably the hardest to learn from scratch for the native English speaker, I would argue that the latin based romance languages are somewhat more easily capable of mastery than German.
But this book at least offers the complete beginner the opportunity of getting a firm foothold in this language. The layout is in the form of a reading passage, more rarely an extended dialogue, followed by a vocabulary list, an explanation of grammar and a series of questions, sometimes this is also followed by additional reading material. The progression is steady from the basics to the more complicated. While there is a thorough treatment of grammar, if you hate this kind of thing then the book is still eminently useful, if you should choose, as I at first did, to largely ignore this aspect.
If you are looking for a quick read to master some spoken phrases for a holiday, then perhaps this book is not for you, however if you are seeking to gain a deeeper knowledge and eventually perhaps literary and oral fluency then this is as good a beginning as you will find. Personally I do not favour dialogue based language books, and of books which are in print a book so well based on traditional reading passages as Living German would be perhaps difficult to find.
A word of caution, after I had mastered this book, which took only a few months, I still found that I was only at the beginning of coming to terms with the complicated vocabulary and tortuous grammar of the 'awful German language', however it was, and remains,as good a primer as can be expected.
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Solid introduction
After going through the Michel Thomas Beginner's course, I wanted to consolidate my learning. Thomas's approach gets great, intuitive results, but I found trying to build on that... Read more
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well written and well presented
I was first introduced to Living German many years ago. Although being somewhat dated I have found this to be one of the best 'text books' around. Read more
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