German for Dummies

I never got along with German at school, but I wanted to pick this language up as an adult. I remain a long way from fluent, but having worked through this book I now have enough German to make myself understood, and even managed to read a couple of short German works. This book does indeed demystif......more

On page 298, the word "idiotic" appears to have been thrown in by mistake. Classic! I love when stuff like this happens.......more

This book wasn't crystal clear on when or how to use "kein" and "nicht" (Chapter 3) The books claims that you usually use "kein" whenever you use "Nein" to negate except for the case when a definite article (der, die, das) or a possessive pronoun precedes a noun that is negated, "nicht" is used in pl......more

I was looking for a book that would be very laid out like my old French textbooks. Give me a week of vocabulary to practice, explain a few verb conjugations, etc. this book wasn't that. I'll keep looking.......more

In general, this is an excellent review of German grammar. I did find one thing though. On page 352, exercise 8, „kennen gelernt „ should be one word, „ kennengelernt.“ My justification for saying this is: (1) Barron‘s 501 German Verbs; and (2) my Austrian husband who grew up in Vienna and is very t......more