Customer Reviews

Neue Horizonte: Introductory German (Available Titles Ilrn: Heinle Learning Center)

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Extraordinarily interesting grammar and culture book. The supporting materials are quite wonderful too. I especially like all of the signs, pictures, maps, newspaper cuttings, brochures, and other realia, that bring the words to life. The audio program is very clear and easy to work with. Certainly helps with comprehension of spoken German. The Videoecke are really fun, and seem quite authentic. In short, the language in this book seems closer to authentic spoken and written German than many other introductory books.

Don't make your students use this. Sure, there are only a few in text mistakes and the book offers interesting cultural details, but it is badly organized and certainly overpriced.

As a first time learner, I found it annoying to navigate all the chapters, searching for uses of the cases and randomly inserted irregular words. They give you the vocabulary useful for one chapter in another chapter, and the exercises are for the most part, horribly uninspired. Worst of all, rather than useful activities that would help me digest this complicated language, this book is stuffed with pointless exercise filler.

The workbook, on the other hand, is decent.

Despite seller's assurances that there was only cosmetic damage to the books cover, about 60 pages were missing from the back of the book.

This book is horrible it only good if your not a first time learner the the cd really sucks it doesnt even talk to you to help you sound out the words I wasted my money next time ill just buy it at school. The seller didnt even but a picture on the page nor the edition so in general I got the wrong book and cant get my money back.... Im going to a different website amazon lost my trust..... :-(