Say auf wiedersehen to your fears of learning German with the updated premium edition of this fast, painless guide The updated third edition of German DeMYSTiFieD provides you with the comprehensive, step-by-step educational experience that has made the DeMYSTiFieD language series such a success. This established, unintimidating approach to speaking, reading, and writing a new language takes the mystery and menace out of the learning process, whether in class or at home. Hundreds of quiz and test questions, chapter-opening objectives, and specific recommendations for difficult subtopics and individual weaknesses help you learn basic grammar structures and verb tenses, pronunciation, essential vocabulary, and how to communicate with confidence. In addition to DeMYSTiFieD s time-tested strategies, this edition features 75 minutes of streaming audio recordings and chapter review quizzes via the unique McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app, so you can enhance your studyvia mobile or online, at home or on the go.
By:
Ed Swick
Imprint: McGraw Hill
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 196mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 771g
ISBN: 9781259836374
ISBN 10: 1259836371
Series: Demystified
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 19 August 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Part One Getting Started CHAPTER 1 German Pronunciation German Alphabet Special Characters Consonant Combinations Vowel Combinations Some Special Pronunciation Rules German Cognates Quiz CHAPTER 2 People and Names German Names People Definite Articles Conjugation of German Verbs Places Greetings Quiz CHAPTER 3 Asking Questions Asking Questions with Wer Indefinite Articles Possessive Adjective Mein Yes or No Questions Using Oder for Differentiation Asking Questions with Was Asking Questions with Wo Possessive Adjective Ihr About the German-Speaking World Quiz CHAPTER 4 Describing People and Things Using the Verb Sein Pronouns Using the Verb Heissen Some Useful Adjectives Asking Questions with Wann and Warum Asking Wie geht's? Cardinal Numbers One to Ten Quiz CHAPTER 5 Indicating Possession Using the Verb Haben Definite Article Die Possessive Adjectives Dein and Euer Using Kein Household Objects Quiz Part One Test Part Two Using Verbs CHAPTER 6 Actions in the Present Tense Using the Verb Werden Pronoun Es Present Tense Cardinal Numbers Eleven to Twenty Quiz CHAPTER 7 Irregularities in Present Tense Verbs Present Tense Verb Irregularities Inseparable Verb Prefixes Colors Common/Professional Titles Quiz CHAPTER 8 Talking About Location Using the Verb Kommen Telling Time Using the Verbs Gehen and Fahren Using the Verbs Wohnen and Leben Word Order Some Coordinating Conjunctions Using the Verbs Wissen and Kennen Infinitives Ending in -ieren Separable Verb Prefixes Accusative Case Accusative Pronouns Quiz CHAPTER 9 Talking About the Past Possessive Adjectives Regular Past Tense Irregular Past Tense Accusative Case Prepositions Plurals Quiz CHAPTER 10 Time and Calendar More Irregular Verbs in the Present and Past Tenses Dative Case Dative Pronouns More About Word Order Cardinal Numbers Twenty and Above More About Telling Time Ordinal Numbers Days and Months Sports and Hobbies Quiz Part Two Test Part Three Lots More About Verbs CHAPTER 11 More Talking About the Past Present Perfect Tense Present Participles Verbs That Take the Dative Prepositions That Take the Dative Geography Quiz CHAPTER 12 Important Details Present Perfect Tense with Sein A Special Use of Vor Expressing Hunger and Thirst with Haben Accusative-Dative Prepositions Other Verb Prefixes Subordinating Conjunctions Food and Beverages Quiz CHAPTER 13 Talking About the Future Future Tense Negatives Adverbs of Time, Manner, and Place Genitive Case Past Perfect Tense Accusative Reflexive Pronouns More Subordinating Conjunctions Things Around the City Quiz CHAPTER 14 Review of Verb Tenses Comparing German and English Verb Tenses Key Verbs: Haben, Sein, and Werden Genitive Prepositions Dative Reflexive Pronouns Some Special Masculine Nouns Modal Auxiliaries Quiz CHAPTER 15 Linking Ideas Together Relative Pronouns More About Modal Auxiliaries Double Infinitives Prepositions and Inanimates More About Adverbs Quiz Part Three Test Part Four Some Fine Points CHAPTER 16 Comparing Things More About Relative Pronouns A Few Common Idioms Comparative and Superlative of Adjectives and Adverbs A Little German History Quiz CHAPTER 17 Using Commands Passive Voice Adjective Endings with Der- Words Imperative Plants Animals Quiz CHAPTER 18 Using the Passive Voice More About the Passive Voice Modal Auxiliaries in the Passive Voice Sich Lassen and the Passive Voice Adjective Endings with Ein- Words Professions Quiz CHAPTER 19 Using the Subjunctive Mood Subjunctive Mood Indirect Discourse Foreign Words in German More Idioms Quiz CHAPTER 20 Expressing Wishes and Conditions Expressing Wishes with the Subjunctive Subjunctive with Als Ob Expressing Conditions with the Subjunctive Irregular Verbs in the Subjunctive Being Polite in the Subjunctive Infinitive Clauses Quiz Part Four Test Final Exam Appendix A: Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs Appendix B: Prepositions and Their Required Cases English-German Dictionary German-English Dictionary Answer Key Index
Ed Swick taught German for thirty years. He is the author of numerous books on learning German and other ESL titles.
