Workbook with Lab Manual for Moeller's Deutsch Heute: Introductory German, 8th

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!

When I began using this textbook as part of an elementary German college course, I had absoluely no prior experience in German grammar or communication (I couldn't even say eins, zwei, drei :) ). I find that the book is, for the most part, very straightfoward in explaining grammatical concepts and is consistent in the way it progresses from chapter to chapter (with example dialogues vocabulary, explanations of grammar and grammar pratice exercises). The book also includes colloquial expressions in vocabulary lists, which can help non-native speakers sound more natural, and each chapter includes some cultural tidbits about Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. I've had no problem using this book daily or understanding the concepts. It also corresponds pretty well to the Deutsch Heute workbook, for extra pratice. The book should, of course, be used with supplementary classroom instruction and not as a self-study material, because some things simply need extra explanation (for example, the different kinds of cases, adjective endings, prepositions, etc.). Some criticisms that I have is that the book is sometimes inconsistent: i.e. in one chapter a certain preposition is used in an expression, and in another chapter the preposition is different even though the expression is supposed to be the same. There are also some spelling errors, but neither they nor the slight inconsistencies get in the way of learning German, in my opinion. I also wish that it would provide more real-life situations to which certain grammatical rules should be applied, and it would be useful if it contained a back-of-the-book answer section for pratice exercises when studying at home. Overall, I think most beginner students will find this book easy to use and understand. Viel Glück!(Good luck!)