Beginners’ German: Food and drink

by Open University

This 6-hour free course explored food and drink in Germany, to support the development of listening, reading, writing and speaking skills in German.

Genres: Language

80 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2016

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A free book that goes with the free OpenLearn course. This is part of their German Language offering, and I have been working through the whole offering as I have been taking a German course lately. This one was a bit easy for me, being aimed at A1/A2 learners, but it was all good revision.

Best used as a course text alongside the web based free course from the open university, the free course has multimedia and interactive exercises to do, all adding to the learning experience.

The hardest part of learning a language from the Internet is speaking practice. This course doesn't help much with that but has good ideas on recording yourself and comparing the recordings with their materials or other German materials to practice pronunciation. It Does provide plenty of listening and reading practice and a little writing too.

[Cidney · Rating 2 out of 5]

it's a bit dated but okay, the kindle version, well on my kindle, doesn't offer sound!! So if you haven't studied german before this can be a problem! Fortunately I have foreign language A Levels but it was a long time ago and if you haven't used the language for decades then you do forget quite a lot of it. This was a good refresher and because it was beginner level I knew most of it, some food description words I hadn't come across before but german is a lot like english and you can break them down to work out the english equivalent. Not bad, just dated! 2015 my version!!