15 Minute German: Learn in Just 12 Weeks

by Sylvia Goulding

The perfect book for anyone who wants to learn German fast and on-the-go, now with a free downloadable audio app for Apple and Android phones, enabling learners to hear words and phrases spoken by native German speakers.

12 themed chapters are broken down into 15-minute daily lessons, spanning a range of practical themes, from socialising to doing business. Each lesson combines German vocabulary and grammar essentials with full-colour photographs for a user-friendly, accessible language guide. The ideal German course for beginners, the 15-Minute language series will teach you how to speak a new language in just 12 weeks.

Topics covered: introductions, eating and drinking, making arrangements, travel, getting about, accommodation, shopping, work and study, health, at home, services, leisure and socialising, with a menu guide and two-language dictionary.

Genres: Language, German Literature, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published April 21, 2003

Reviews

[Susan]

My German is so rusty that I picked this up to help me out. I'm trying not to embarrass myself, but that seems unavoidable. Seems easy to use with pronunciation guides and a good dictionary. Ich hatte gern ein Bier! That should be the most useful phrase

[Gan-Ochir Baigalmaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

After intense Deutch Kurs book or grammar exercise this book felt like a dessert to me 🍮
Light, simple, pretty informative

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is one of the most interesting conversational German books available.

And when you have 10 pages per week, I think they maintained a very interesting balance for presentation and content, with some of the nicest graphic design i've seen.

I've enjoyed the DK Eyewitness books for learning all about a country [The book on France is my favorite, where you learn exquisite history, and have a sense of actually knowing things well enough like you'd almost been there] and this book is tied with that one for being my fave Eyewitness Travel books.

If you can't find the Pimsleur disks of 90 lessons on CD or the Michel Thomas series of 15 Disks for French/German/Italian, get the DK Eyewitness books.

Ideally all three, for the least frustrating route of learning a language.

[Dr_ Andrain · Rating 5 out of 5]

🪶 Дисциплінуй себе 🪶

У цьому заклику головна цінність книги...
Я міг би висловити певні критичні зауваження щодо її методології, однак для мене вона виконала свою функцію: повторення правил, пригадування слів і, як бонус, корисні фрази для подорожі Німеччиною ...

15 хвилин на день – це начебто мало, але більше я виділити не міг, тому такий проміжок часу є однозначно кращим, ніж нічого... Це реально допомагає і привчає щоденно займатися мовою, тобто рухатися у заданому напрямку хоча б дрібними кроками...

☔ Dr_Andrain ☔

[Rusty Lane]

Nice book to understand german language