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Teach Yourself German: Complete Course (Teach Yourself Complete Courses) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paul Coggle, Heiner Schenke
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Category: Book
Buy New: $63.27
New (3) Used (7) from $9.45
Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 4092637
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0340866705
Dewey Decimal Number: 430
EAN: 9780340866702
ASIN: 0340866705
Publication Date: March 2003
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Book Description
Now the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning language student. This complete audio pack is based on the very latest teaching methods and is enjoyable and user friendly.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
Perfect teacher May 27, 2008
Teach Yourself German Complete Course Package is an excellent book with audio CD added. Step-by-step studying, nice explanations, very good wxamples. Fully recommend.
Not new at all April 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First and foremost: this "new edition" does not have too much new in it, so if you have the older edition (Teach Yourself German Complete Course) and it is still serviceable (meaning, not studied to tatters), do not buy it. Whatever Amazon says, even the page numbers are the same. The minor modifications are simply not worth the money. The newest thing in the whole book is the cover. To sum up, not a fully revised edition, but an updated one. This is why it got four stars and not five.
However, that relative changelessness is not a problem at all. This is an excellent book. The small modifications, e.g. writing the names of the countries in the now expanded EU, and redrawing the previously strongly distorted (European) map is a definite advantage, even if it does not really influence the learning experience.
Why is this a good language book?
First, you can learn at your own speed, to which you get all the necessary help in the book, which is full of good and simple (English) explanations. Of course, you may feel it necessary to buy a bilingual dictionary (my recommendation is Langenscheidt Universal German Dictionary: German-English / English-German (Langenscheidt Universal Dictionary) or the Mini Oxford) and a basic grammar book (e.g. Essential German Grammar), neither of which needs to be an expensive one.
Secondly, the book is well-structured and concentrates on common problem areas, such as prepositions and case. However, it is not overwhelmingly grammar centered: there are lots of conversations, and the topics are suitably selected to give the vocabulary and sentences for a hopeful tourist. The two CDs help a lot, too. True, you can buy the book without them as all the material on them can be found in a printed format in it, yet, if you have them, you can find meaningful listening exercises to them and they are also good for revision purposes and pronunciation practice.
At the end of the book you can also find some tips where to go further. One tip: Teach Yourself Improve Your German, CD package of the same series.
 Sehr Gut! February 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Teach Yourself series is generally good, though not always consistent in quality from language to language.
The Teach Yourself German book and CDs are definitely "gut". I took 2 years of German in high school, a semester in college and spent two months in Austria. Can I speak it now (20 years later)? Nur ein bisschen. :)
The material is presented in a reasonable way, building in complexity over time. The dialogues are not overly intricate and specialized, like some (e.g. "My uncle served in WW2 and now farms in Hannover.")
The sound quality on the CDs is good. Other languages are garbled and muddled, but not this one.
 not bad July 3, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Ok, I bought this thinking I could simply listen to the CD in the car and bring back/learn some of the basic German I learned many years ago in high school. Not true. This CD/book combo needs to be studied together - primarily by studying the book first and then by listening to the CD to support the things learned in the book. The CD doesn't actually "teach" it just goes over the things taught in the book. If I had more time to read the book then it would probably be a great buy.
 dissapointed April 22, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
i picked this book up in preparation for my stay in germany with a friend, whose mother does not speak english. maybe it was because i have some prior knowledge of basic german, but the first several chapters of this book were almost useless. when i showed my german friend the book and cds, he said 'no one talks like this. if you speak like this people will just laugh at you'. i decided to purchase this from my experience with teach yourself norwegian and swedish, which so far has been very pleasant and helpful.
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