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| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5343 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 20 July 2011 at 12:07pm | IP Logged |
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I have four books on German grammar and vocabulary.
German Sentence Builder German Vocabulary German Verb Tenses German Pronouns and Prepositions I was wondering which of the books should I start with? Also, when should I start using them? Should I start after I finish Assimil? Or should I start them right now? Edited by zekecoma on 20 July 2011 at 12:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| roadrunner Newbie United States secretstoimprovememo Joined 7162 days ago 15 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian | Message 2 of 5 20 July 2011 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
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I like the "Teach Yourself _______ Grammar" series. I've purchased the Italian and German versions and find them quite helpful. You can read the book cover to cover, or you can easily research a particular grammar topic that interests you. It is written on a fairly basic level though, nothing too advanced, but that can be a good thing too!
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| KCor Groupie United States Joined 5007 days ago 50 posts - 72 votes | Message 3 of 5 20 July 2011 at 10:55pm | IP Logged |
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Those really aren't very good books for you to start with. Those are really just
workbooks and I'm sure they were appealing because they were cheap. The problem with them is that they're aimed at a user that already knows the material and is looking for a chance to further improve by practice. You'll find that any explanation provided for whatever chapter you're practicing is very vague and will lead to some problems throughout them. A couple much better books (IMO) would be the Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook and Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook by Schenke. (An unscrupulous fellow might be able to find them online by some means.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5564 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 5 20 July 2011 at 11:21pm | IP Logged |
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Oddly the Practice Makes Perfect series does not have a general grammar book yet. It is in the pipeline, but I would start with Assimil and go to the drill books afterwards.
As KCor said the Routledge Basic and Intermediate German books are very good user friendly items. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jarm Newbie Australia Joined 4911 days ago 33 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 5 21 July 2011 at 9:56am | IP Logged |
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While McGraw-Hill doesn't have a German grammar book in the Practice Makes Perfect series, they *do* have one in the Drills series, by the same author as a couple of the PMP books.
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