Deutsch Heute: Introductory German

Guten Tag! Do you want a super easy book that goes STEP BY STEP on how to learn German? Then this is the book for you. This book set comes with the book, the german and english dictionary, and two cds. No workbook or the cds 1-13. The book starts off quite easy, you begin with numbers, basic questions, basic converstaions, and letters. You move thru a few verbs, colors, some really basic grammer, telling and asking time, and nouns too! I haven't gotten past chapter two but i can say that i would have thought this might have been a daunting task to learn German over the internet but with this book, it is a piece of cake! While the pronunciation is hard to get with an internet class, i can definately read this much better than i though i would be able to. In addition if you are slightly familiar with Latin you will have an easier time as well. Tschüss!

I have used this book for several years in my German 101 and 102 courses. Readers in comments above complain that the dialogue in the beginning of each chapter uses grammar not explained previously. The best way to teach each chapter is to explain all of the grammar of a particular chapter first and then apply it to the dialogues and other exercises in the chapter.

The book is one of the "classics" of introductory level German. I used this book for a college level class and now find myself referencing it as I complete more advanced level classes and prepare to move to Germany. The authors do a great job of simplifying the grammatical points of the German language in clear everyday language. They also use many examples throughout the explanations to clearly illustrate the key grammar concept. I also appreciated the mini-review at the end of each chapter, as well as the list of the grammar concepts in the index. Finally, the list of valuable idiomatic expressions and relevant sayings is helpful to the student in many normal everyday situation whether it be in a classroom or in a normal everyday situation. All in all, it was and is a valuable learning tool!

I bought this book to use with my German 101 and 102 classes, and it was extremely helpful. The writing style was, if not absolutely gripping, easy to get through, and the information was plentiful and well laid out. The accompanying website was also useful. The only problem I have with this book is that at the beginning of each chapter are a few dialogues using grammar that hasn't yet been learned. It would've made more sense to put those dialogues at the end of the chapters, in my opinion. That's more annoying than anything, and doesn't hurt the content or student's learning rate at all. I'd recommend this to any beginning German student.

Mailed and recieved in the time they said. The book is in great condition, the price was even better.