This comprehensive study aid to reading real German texts provides essentials for both students and specialists who have to develop a reading knowledge of German in order to study their core subject. The book includes further exercises, translation of authentic German texts, and an extensive reference section.
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Very good grammer support for interesting texts. Useful to have key for independant study.
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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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Intimidating, but useful,
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This review is from: Reading German: A Course Book and Reference Grammar (Paperback)
I have used this book to supplement my own book, German Quickly:A Grammar for Reading German, and I have found the explanations extremely helpful and the readings more interesting than the standard textbook fare. Initially, the book looked scary, even to me, and I teach German! Therefore, I think it is more useful as a review book than as an introductory grammar. For the price, it's an excellent value, and a useful reference for anyone seriously interested in reading German scholarly texts.
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Good for someone new to foreign languages,
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I used this text in an independent study course, and found that while it taught me basic grammar principles, it was confusing as it didn't use the traditional names for these principles. For example, subjunctive forms were called "non-factual." It explained what a noun, verb, sentence, and independent clause were. This is most helpful for someone who has never learned a foreign language before, but for someone who has a solid grounding in grammar, this book is a bit too simple.
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A Meaty, yet Non-Linear Offering,
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This review is from: Reading German: A Course Book and Reference Grammar (Paperback)
I agree with April, this book is not necessarily an introductory text. It seems more of a comprehensive review or could be used to sew up the complex topics that you've never quite understood. I've read a lot of German textbooks and this one is one of the most rich in terms in raw content. Simply tons of applicable text in English/German, grammar topics coming from a slightly different angle (which is always helpful for me), and exercises. The format of the book is a little different than most language tutorials you'll come across. There are basically four main sections (1) A Reading Course - essentially concepts + associated exercises, wrapped up with 5 chapters of texts/exercises. (2) Reference Section [my favorite]- individual grammar topics which are referenced throughout the Reading Course. These can also be "cherry-picked" by the reader. (3) Further Exercises - auxiliary exercise section and (4) German-English Text Corpus - 23 excerpts (about a page a piece) of German articles, books, etc. Because of the way it references the reader to various sections, I found myself jumping around in a non-linear fashion and, as a result, came to the same supporting grammer topics from different directions in the text. Depending on your learning style, this could get annoying. No dictionary or glossary is provided, so have your pocket Langenscheidt or Harper-Collins ready. On the plus side, all exercises and German texts have corresponding English translations for them.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
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extended adjectival phrases, krebserregend sein, leicht senken, verb completion, technological deficit, ruiniert worden, separable verbs, haben erlebt, alles beweisen, determiner forms, drei ein, negation words, verb idioms, clearer correlation, ihr erlaubt, logical connectors, infinitive clauses, core sentence, inseparable prefixes, factual forms, zutreffend ist, lesen wollen, indirect reports, ohne bewußte, modal verbs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Text Corpus, Schatten von Englisch, Professor Ammon, Ulrich Ammon, Check-list Having, Ersten Weltkrieg, Federal Republic, Second World War, Victor Hugo, Eastern Europe, Europäischen Union, Millionen Menschen, Reference Section, Art Vereinigter Staaten von Europa, Vereinigten Staaten von Europa, Compact Verlag, Corpus Text, Der Wunsch, Europäischen Gemeinschaft Pate, Oskar Schindler, Wort Placebo, Zweiten Weltkrieg, Bewertung des Hausfrauenberufs, European Union, German Jews New!
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extended adjectival phrases, krebserregend sein, leicht senken, verb completion, technological deficit, ruiniert worden, separable verbs, haben erlebt, alles beweisen, determiner forms, drei ein, negation words, verb idioms, clearer correlation, ihr erlaubt, logical connectors, infinitive clauses, core sentence, inseparable prefixes, factual forms, zutreffend ist, lesen wollen, indirect reports, ohne bewußte, modal verbs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Text Corpus, Schatten von Englisch, Professor Ammon, Ulrich Ammon, Check-list Having, Ersten Weltkrieg, Federal Republic, Second World War, Victor Hugo, Eastern Europe, Europäischen Union, Millionen Menschen, Reference Section, Art Vereinigter Staaten von Europa, Vereinigten Staaten von Europa, Compact Verlag, Corpus Text, Der Wunsch, Europäischen Gemeinschaft Pate, Oskar Schindler, Wort Placebo, Zweiten Weltkrieg, Bewertung des Hausfrauenberufs, European Union, German Jews New!
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