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Teach Yourself German Grammar

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I have been studying German for a few years now, and I find this book very helpful. This particular book deals with grammar much more thoroughly than other books in the Teach Yourself series. the grammar is thoroughly explained with examples and charts.

I highly recommend this book.

The grammar books in the "Teach Yourself" series are outstanding. They start from the very basics and work through all the grammar you would learn in several years of courses. In fact, you may want to use this book before a general course, as it sets the basis for learning the language and includes a fair amount of vocabulary and such anyway.

Simultaneously comprehensive and concise, this is a book I recommend to any student of German grammar.

I bought this book along with some others including : German Grammar "How To Speak and Write It" and the German Grammar Drills series, and loved those! However, this book I did not find half as helpful as these books mentioned. It was very basic as it tried to teach you grammar, and it left you with not much more knowledge than when you first started this book. It is basically a book of grammar "tips" not for a serious student of German. For the money I would seriously recommend The German Grammar Drill series or German " How To Speak and Write It".

I bought the book originally because it was only a few dollars so I figured it wouldn't be too big a loss if it was as bad as all of the other grammar books I'd seen. Actually, the book is impressingly comprehensive. Beginners will need additional material to really teach themselves of course, but if you only want to have all of the important rules spelled out in plain english, this is a great book. If you're looking to really dig in and have lots of detail about every rule, you'll need one of those gigantic grammar books. Overall, I'd say this book is wonderful and has really cleared up some misty concepts for me. Good luck