Complete German: A Teach Yourself Guide

by Paul Coggle, Heiner Schenke

It's easy to teach yourself German! Complete German provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to German, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing German with confidence. Within each of the 25 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society. You can also visit teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don't have much time, don't worry--this book gives you one-, five-, and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.

Genres: Reference

496 pages, Paperback

Published January 19, 2010

Reviews

[Carlos · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is heavily oriented in getting the reader speaking German after the first couple of pages, which may be fine for someone who needs just a functional knowledge of the language for a business trip, but its style is so different from any other type of educational program to learn a new language that it is almost useless to anyone genuinely interesting in achieve a mastery of the language.

[Nabila C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Actually, I have learned Complete German Vol. 1 — Vol.3, in Indonesian version. It was also written by Paul Coggle. Since I didn‘t find the book here, so I write my review here. The books were my first german course books. I learned it autodidactly. The book has various topics as well as grammar explanation, brief conversation, vocabularies with translation, and small excercise related to its topic. It designed structurely and also is provided by Audio CD. At that time, as a self-taught and passive learner who started to learn german, I have satisfied with the lessons because the books had various and useful topics and vocabularies, and I could get the pronunciation as every conversations parts and prononunciation lessons has listening tracks on its Audio CD.