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German II, 3rd Ed. (Comp.) [CD] | ![German II, 3rd Ed. (Comp.) [CD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MEA8FX3DL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Author: Pimsleur Language Programs
Publisher: Pimsleur
Category: Book
List Price: $345.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 182329
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 16
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 13.2 x 11.7 x 2.1
ISBN: 0743523490
Dewey Decimal Number: 438.3421
EAN: 9780743523493
ASIN: 0743523490
Publication Date: January 1, 2003
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Product Description
Comprehensive German II includes 30 additional lessons (16 hrs.), plus Readings, which build upon the language skills acquired in Level I. Increased spoken and reading language ability.Level II will double your vocabulary and grammatical structures while increasing your spoken proficiency exponentially. Upon completion of a Level II, you will be able to: * engage in fuller conversations involving yourself, your family, daily activities, interests and personal preferences, * combine known elements into increasingly longer sentences and strings of sentences, * create with language and function in informal situations, * deal with concrete topics in the past, present, and future, * meet social demands and limited job requirements, * begin reading for meaning. Note: In order for the Pimsleur Method to work correctly, you must first complete the Level I language program before proceeding to the Level II language program.
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 Ausgezeichnet! August 28, 2008
I used German I, II, and III of the Pimsleur series before going to Germany. I'm pleased to say that I could easily converse in simple German conversations and could understand what was being said to me. This is an all-auditory course and is suitable to people, like me, who learn best in this fashion. The course introduces you very slowly and very gradually to German vocabulary and grammar - so effortlessly and intuitively that it doesn't even feel like you are learning! (I supplemented the course with a Beginner's German course to develop basic reading and grammar skills).
I started using my new German abilities in with shop clerks. As my confidence increased I talked a little bit more about myself and asked questions of the person I was addressing. There is nothing like a native speaker to really teach you how to speak a language! But Pimsleur is the best course I've come across for learning a second language - especially one that you will have the opportunity to use in real conversations.
Great Product May 15, 2008
I've always had a fascination with the German language and studied it for three years in high school. Now, almost 40 years later I decided it was time to relearn it since I was sure I had forgotten most of what I had learned. My intention was to only do German I until I finished it. It was so enjoyable and immersive that I decided to go on to German II as well. Well, it looks like I'm about to move on to German III. This course is easy to do and the Pimsleur method makes it impossible not to learn if you listen to the CD's. The authors imply that 30 minutes a day is all it takes and that you can finish the course rapidly. Well, that's not necessarily so. Yes, each lesson is about 30 minutes or less but you will probably have to listen to each one two or three times to make sure you've grasped what's being taught. Especially in German II. Even so, you will be speaking German in no time. Not like a native speaker but close enough until you move on to the higher levels.
 A great tool! October 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I will probably repeat a lot of what others have said, but here goes. I think the real strength of these courses is that they get you to converse. You practice conversation. You talk, you listen. Will you learn lots of vocabulary? No. Will you learn all the grammar rules? No. Can you learn a language with only these courses? Of course not. You will need other materials, courses, books, whatever. But they are another tool in your toolbox to help you achieve your goal. What they give you is practice at speaking real conversations. And you will pick up some vocabulary and grammar along the way, what you need to succeed in these lessons.
I've been through all 4 levels and found them all great. Including level 4 (German Plus). This one has a bad rap, I think mostly because it's shorter than the rest. And certainly some of the new vocabulary is quite focused on one topic. But I found it added a lot of new conversational situations, and a lot of new grammar. Do you learn words that the average tourist doesn't need? Sure, but if you were just the average tourist, would you be buying these? We are only talking about a dozen or so words, it's not like your being forced to learn hundreds of words you'll never use.
Are they perfect? No, there are inconsistencies, there are silly little things here and there that I would call "editing" mistakes. And I really wish they'd give up the pretension that you only need to do each lesson once. I had to do each one at least 3 times before I could move on. But they are great for what they are. If you want to practice conversations, this is for you.
 Too much money!!!! September 25, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Get the Baron's course, Super boring conversations repeated over and over.
Too much english is spoken. Get a Peter Maffay cd
Every bit as good as Pimsleur German I October 20, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Pimsleur Language Programs products are among the best-selling audio language courses available. `Organic learning' seeks to approximate the conditions in which ordinary language-learning takes place. The process is almost entirely aural, supplemented only minimally-or at the student's discretion, not at all-by reference to reading lessons after each half-hour lesson.
Clearly, Dr. Pimsleur and his disciples-I use the word advisedly, as a glance at promotional and instructional materials will demonstrate-have done their pedagogical homework. Utilizing the spectacular power of the brain for on-the-hoof language analysis and replication, the Pimsleur Language Programs lure their listeners into meaning-rich dialogues, providing only the information required for one to respond. The closest thing to a grammatical concept that a student hears is a brief warning that `this is the form used with feminine words'. Yet with a little effort, the student intuits her way to the correct and timely use of all that grammar describes.
This is an extremely productive approach at the level of basic conversational skills that is the bread and butter of Pimsleur's products. The course writers have found just the level at which to challenge the student without counterproductive frustration. One is encouraged to achieve 80% control of a unit before moving on. Many students will accomplish this in most units on the first try. Yet the approach in these three volumes is never simplistic, reducing the urge to be somewhere else or engaged in a more advanced section to the vanishing point.
Pimsleur Language Programs has populated websites with two highly sellable language-learning concepts: the `principle of anticipation' and `graduated interval recall'. The former refers to the interval during which the student is challenged to retrieve information to which he has been exposed, occasionally take some small step in the processing of it, and then utilize that information in a response. PLP has refined just the right intervals to facilitate prompt but unhurried responses.
`Graduated interval recall' refers to the time lag between the initial learning of a language component and its subsequent reintroduction in a new conversation. Here, too, the Pimsleur method shows its debt to years of practice and research. By my lights, they do this perfectly.
Regionally and socially, PLP's German course(s) aim at an `educated' dialect that will prepare the student to be conversant throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
German I, II, and III are available in cassette tape and CD versions, packaged attractively and with sufficient ruggedness to survive both winter and summer Midwestern temperatures in my car.
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