Practice Makes Perfect German Sentence Builder
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Practice Makes Perfect German Sentence Builder
Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your German vocabulary andgrammar skills together! You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed–but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second languagewould be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: German Sentence Builders picks up from where othergrammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them tomake solid sentences. And like every Pract
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Review by Dr. Divot for Practice Makes Perfect German Sentence Builder
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This is a very comprehensive German verb workbook and I found it to be exactly what I needed to prepare for an upcoming trip to Germany and Austria. This product is probably best for a student with some familiarity with the language, as it is very comprehensive. I have had two years of High School German and one year of college level German, albeit many years ago, and found this book to be an ideal review. With Germanic languages, the verb is integral to the listener’s ability to understand the meaning of a given sentence, and this guide enables the student to attain the level of confidence required to understand the action. I wish I had used this product when I was in high school, as it would have certainly accelerated my progress with the language. I have also tried Rosetta Stone and other similar DVD-based products, and found them to be too slow for the type of review I needed. As a break to my German verb studies, I found German news programs via the web to be an ideal supplement to this guide, allowing me to tune my ear to normal conversational German. In summary, I find this product very useful and give it an A-plus. Sehr gut!
Review by Bharat Shah for Practice Makes Perfect German Sentence Builder
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I am new to the German language, and I bought this book to help me. Of no fault of the book, it is not for a beginner, or for an intermediate student. It presupposes fairly advanced fluency with the language.
Personally though, I am quite dismayed by teachers (and writers of text books) of German, who love to make a not-so-easy language like German, then work hard to make it more intimidating. I have not not come across a single book which makes the study more inviting. Even for the German language, no matter how important its grammar may be, I am sure there is another way to teach the language.
Chinese has such books. Sanskrit is more difficult than German. My own mother tongue Gujarati, from western India is not easy either. However, I have tried with great success (based on their reception and reviews) to simplify Sanskrit Sanskrit: An Appreciation Without Apprehension, and Gujarati A programmed text to learn Gujarati (Setubandh language series). Teachers of languages, and students of these languages may want to look them up. I am not just trying to plug my books. The point is, even as a teacher of languages, my problem with the German remains formidable.