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Essential German Grammar
Lively and easy to use, with clear explanations, authentic examples, and visually appealing tables, Essential German Grammar combines a concise, introductory-level reference book with the review benefits of a workbook to provide students with a solid foundation in German. Distilling essential components of Hammer's German Grammar & Usage, this versatile guide for beginning and intermediate learners features two-color tables to simplify learning; varied, study-friendly exercises for grammar consolidations; a glossary of grammatical terms; and much more.
320 pages, Paperback
First published June 28, 2002
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July 16, 2019
This book is very good for a very thorough explication of German grammar. However, this is not optimal for self-study imo and would be best paired with teaching.
April 2, 2020
Does what it says on the tin
October 4, 2019
Started this one months and months ago! But the thing about Grammar books is that you don't usually read them start to finish. This will be a great reference work, but it is set out in a way that makes it quite hard to read more than a few pages at once.
What this is not: this is not a guide to teach yourself German. It is wrongly set out for that purpose, for a start. Early chapters go through all the structures of German sentences that can happen, but I think it was not until chapter 10 that we finally had a discussion of word order that made sense of all those structures.
There are exercises and chances to practice what is presented, but if a student were handed this book and nothing else to learn German, I don't expect they would get very far.
Still it is a thorough grounding in the grammar of the language, and having read it once, I hope I will feel confident to go back to those sections that I only have a hazy recollection of to try to really get to grips with the grammar.
What this is not: this is not a guide to teach yourself German. It is wrongly set out for that purpose, for a start. Early chapters go through all the structures of German sentences that can happen, but I think it was not until chapter 10 that we finally had a discussion of word order that made sense of all those structures.
There are exercises and chances to practice what is presented, but if a student were handed this book and nothing else to learn German, I don't expect they would get very far.
Still it is a thorough grounding in the grammar of the language, and having read it once, I hope I will feel confident to go back to those sections that I only have a hazy recollection of to try to really get to grips with the grammar.
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