German in Three Months Book and CD (2003)

Possui uma abordagem mais centrada na tradução de conceitos entre o inglês e o alemão. Para algumas pessoas pode ser uma abordagem melhor do que a centrada em temas, como a da série Teach Yourself.

Week 1)

Speaking German. The alphabet and spelling. Spelling and pronunciation. Vowels. Consonants. The hiatus or stop. Stressed syllables. Punctuation.

Week 2)

Word endings and word order. Greetings, everyday phrases, "the," and gender. Plural of "the". Plural of nouns. Exercises and vocabulary.

Week 3)

"the" and case. Pronouns; "I, me, we, us", etc. Useful verbs: "to be", "to have" and "to make". Exercises, vocabulary, & conversation.

Week 4)

"a/an" and gender. Numbers. Prices. The indirect object case. Verbs using the indirect object case. Exercises, vocabulary & conversation

Week 5)

Asking questions. Negative sentences. Instructions and requests. Adjectives and adverbs. Exercises, vocabulary & conversation.

Week 6)

Prepositions; in, by, of etc. The expression "es gibt" ("there is/there are")

Week 7)

Words following the same pattern as "der", "die", "das". My, your, his, her. etc. Adjectives before nouns. Ordinal numbers, fractions. Conversation between friends. Word order. Exercises, vocabulary & conversation.

Week 8)

More on word order. Auxiliary verbs: will, can, must, may, etc. Using auxiliary verbs. Conversation. Measurements and quantities. The expressions "es ist" and "es sind" ("there is/are"). Verbs expressing location. How to say "put". More about prepositions. Exercises and vocabylary.

Week 9)

More about "der", "die", "das". Verbs: the present tense. Irregular verbs. The pre-present. The "ge_(e)t" form. Time expressions, seasons, months, dates, time of day, etc. The expression "nicht wahr?". Exercises, vocabulary & conversation.

Week 10)

The possessor case. Prepositions taking the possessor case. Irregular masculine nouns. Using Type II verbs. "Zu" plus the infinitive. Expressing purpose. More useful expressions. The observe process (passive). More on the pre-present. Introducing the past tense. Exercises, vocabulary & conversation.

Week 11)

Quantifiers and identifiers. Making adjectives into nouns. Attached sentences. Joiners affecting word order. Reflexive pronouns. Reflexive verbs. Exercises, vocabulary & conversation.

Week 12)

More on the past tense. Verbs that change the stem in the past tense. The pre-past ("I had been"). The oblique past tense. The conditional: "if" sentences. More about the obverse process. Affective words. Exercises, vocabulary & conversation.

Week 13)

Translating the English "-ing" form. ("by doing" "in spite of doing"). Line-of-thought pointers. Conversation between intimates. Attached sentences with two "-en" forms. Impersonal expressions. The oblique past tense. Reported speech. Word order in reported speech. Enclosed attached sentences. Exercises, vocabulary & conversation.

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