748 German Sentences [Audio Cassette]

Language Dynamics Inc./Mark A. Frobose (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1999

With this course you receive free, expert online language tips and advice on how best to learn a foreign language. Created and developed by the experts at Language Dynamics Inc., 748 German Sentences is a lively and useful 2 tape course which provides the learner with simple yet effective sentence building techniques to enhance communicative ability in German in a minimum of time and effort. The native German speaker and American instructor provide the listener with the necessary tools on the tapes to form, speak, and understand numerous basic to low intermediate sentences in German. Using the techniques presented in this highly acclaimed course, it is possible to form literally hundreds of short, useful, and practical sentences in German quickly, easily, and naturally.

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Wow. Two thumbs up for Language Dynamics' 748 German Sentences. I NEVER learned anywhere near this much German with any other course. This was easy and fun. -- Kathy Zillman

About the Author

Mark Frobose is a well known foreign language author, teacher, and speaker. Mark founded Language Dynamics Inc. in 1981 with the express purpose of simplifying the foreign language learning process through the creation of fast and easy to learn foreign language courses. This course is the successful result of his company's many fruitful years of teaching countless individuals from all walks of life to effectively communicate in a foreign language, quickly, easily, and naturally.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Language Dynamics Inc. (October 15, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 189356441X
• ISBN-13: 978-1893564411
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,375,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit buggy, nicht wahr?, August 21, 2000

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William Patterson (OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 748 German Sentences (Audio Cassette)

This set was not quite what I expected. From the title and description I got the idea that it would be a collection of German sentences with translations and maybe some analysis. But it is instead a beginner's course, and the name refers to the fact that after digesting the tape, you can create (at least) 748 sentences by permuting the various words that you've learned. It's a two-cassette all-audio course, good for the commuter, but it is *very* basic, beginning with days, months, seasons, and numbers, and then playing with "muessen", "wollen", and "moechten", along with other verbs, to create simple sentences. The atmosphere is informal, with an English male (who sounds like a beginner himself) asking a German female how to say this and that. Sometimes the translations seem rather odd, as when "Do you have to walk?" was translated as "Muessen Sie gehen?" even though "spazieren" had been introduced shortly before. (Later they do comment that "gehen" can mean "walk"... though that would be "zu Fuss gehen", nicht wahr?) I kept getting this nagging feeling that some of the translations weren't quite right, but I was driving at the time and couldn't check... and I did catch them translating "you have to" as "du willst" and "Sie wollen". All things considered, it was interesting to find that on 16 August 2000 the bookstore page at their website did not have a listing for this set, though the French and Spanish versions were listed. Maybe the German version is new (in beta?) or discontinued. (Hmm. I later caught them translating "Do you want?" as "Willst du?" and "*Werden* Sie?". And their English could use some improvement too, as when they tell us that while every German noun takes one of the three genders, masculine, feminine or "neutral" [!], English nouns take "neither"!)