Deutsch Intensiv: Intensive German Course for Beginners (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530628797)

Dive deep into the realms of the German language. Master all the ins and outs of German grammar and you'll feel much more comfortable about the language. In this course we'll explore all the main areas of German grammar, pronunciation and spelling. For media-enabled devices there are some videos and lots of audio exercices. Discover How Fantastically Ordered the German Language Is and How Marvelous It Is To Use It Correctly. -Pronunciation and Spelling -Conjugation Patterns, German Tenses -Number and Gender of Nouns -Declension Patterns, German Cases -Articles, Pronouns, Prepositions and Conjunctions -Word Order in Declarative and Interrogative Sentences -Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers, Date and Time -Direct and Indirect Objects -Verb Forms, Participles -Special Verbs - Modal and Reflexive Verbs -Verbs with Separable and Inseparable Prefixes -Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs -Possessives -Diminutives -Compound Nouns -Ways to Express the Future -Compound and Complex Sentences, Coordination and Subordination of Clauses -Passive Voice -... and much more Become a Highly Skilled User of German - It's All Well Within Your Reach. German is definitely one of the most popular languages in the world. There's a whole bunch of benefits to knowing German. Let me just mention a few. In our global society you can make use of it in business, becoming a more valuable worker, in private life, on vacation, chatting online, reading Goethe or watching satellite TV. In some parts of the world, like for instance in Europe, German is taught as the foreign language number two, just after English. And I could go on and on like that... This is an intensive course, which means it covers the basics from level zero (absolute beginner) and then you wander across all the lectures and learn quite a lot of stuff. The language is concise and clear. You should have no difficulty following it and understanding. A lot of stuff and a lot of practice. Contents and Overview This course is pretty comprehensive. It contains all the basic areas of German grammar. Starting off with German spelling and pronunciation, touching upon all the main grammatical categories in the first sections and then going into much more detail in the following sections. The language I use is simple and should be easily understood by absolute beginners. This course is divided into 16 sections, each of them covering a broad topic subdivided into lectures. The pace is up to you, you can go through the easier parts faster and then take more time to study the more sophisticated ones. At the end of my course, students will be able to... - use full, grammatically correct sentences - read and write simple texts - apply the rules of the language to make an infinite number of utterances - talk about yourself, other people, animals, things and whatever - talk / write about the present, the past and the future - pronounce and spell German words correctly - ask questions and answer them both positively and negatively - give orders and commands, ask someone to do something for you - count and talk about numbers, date and time - describe and compare people and things - modify your language by means of adverbs and other linguistic means - use the correct conjugation and declension patterns - much more Who should take this course? Who should not? - This course is best suited for students who want to learn German in a systematic way, diving into its grammar and being eager to understand how the language works, how all the inflections, articles, tenses, cases etc. should be used correctly. - This is a beginner course but is also suitable for students who already have some knowledge of German but would like to refresh it in an ordered and systematic way. - This course is NOT suitable for students who only want to learn some everyday vocabulary or expressions like how to order food in a restaurant, book a ticket or something like tha

Author: Kamil Pakula
ISBN-10: 1530628792
ISBN-13: 9781530628797
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2016
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.98lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 1.20d