Basic German
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Basic German
(Teach yourself books)
Teach Yourself, 1988
Available at 8 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliography and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a first introduction to German for anyone who wants to acquire a basic knowledge of the language. The course consists of 27 short units and is carefully graded so that by the end of the book the reader will have learnt the essential core vocabulary and grammar of German quite painlessly.
Table of Contents
- Pronouncing German
- "the" and "a", making simple sentences, he, she and it
- verbs - I, we, you and they, who and what
- my and your, the noun as object, giving orders, vowel changes and verbs
- to be, plural nouns, for, into, etc.
- adjectives before the noun, modifying verbs, konnen, durfen etc
- object pronouns, prepositions, kein
- contracted forms - in, on etc, to me, to you, word order in sentences
- order of objects, compound nouns, reflexive verbs
- using the future, wann? wie? wo?, to put, to know, to live, more plural nouns
- separable and inseparable verbs, possession, preposition compounds
- prepositions, es gibt, dependent clauses
- endings, numbers 8-100, ich mochte
- days, months, seasons, "in order to", possession, conjuctions
- time, ordinal numbers, word order, plurals, in -s
- the perfect tense, "to look", past participles
- quantity, comparison
- the perfect tense, linking words - who, which, that
- inseparable prefixes, whose
- constructions with -ing, "I like"
- the simple past, prepositions, the pluperfect, werden, past participles, adverbs
- the simple past, stong verbs
- when, helping, following etc., either...or
- modifying verbs, what sort of?, position of nicht
- hin and her, forming new words
- "would", modifying verbs, verbs with no subject
- some, something, hatte and ware
- key to exercises
- vocabulary.
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