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What makes the perfect language book?

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tomsawyer
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01 February 2011 at 2:09pm | IP Logged 
I believe I finally stumbled upon my "perfect" language book in a university library
yesterday. It was a book called "Complete German Course" by L. Russell, printed in the
60's. The book contains:
* a comprehensive grammar sections with extensive examples (125 points of grammatical
interest)
* a section of around 50 pages with English sentences for translating into German
(single sentences designed to test each point in the grammatical section)
* a section of around 100 pages with English short stories, poems, etc. for
translating into German
* a section containing vast amounts of German literature with questions for
comprehension following.
* a two-way vocabulary listing of the ca. 2500 words learnt during the course.

The thing that caught my eye with this book though was the first sentence in the
author's introduction - "This is not an easy book.". If this book was hard in the 60's,
I can only imagine the sheer terror it'll release on my poor new-age mind.

Edited by tomsawyer on 01 February 2011 at 2:12pm



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