German All-In-One For Dummies

Wendy Foster loves languages. She spent 30 years in Munich, immersing herself in the German language and culture, inter­mittently bouncing to Paris to complete her MA in French. Later, she lived in Spain, where she studied Spanish. She’s now a polyglot living in New England. She’s the author of German For Dummies, German Workbook For Dummies, and more.

• INTRODUCTION 1About This Book 1Conventions Used in This Book 2Foolish Assumptions 3How This Book Is Organized 4Book 1: Getting Started with German 4Book 2: Speaking German on the Go 4Book 3: Assembling the Grammatical Foundations for Communication 5Book 4: Building Detail and Precision in Your Communication 5Book 5: The Appendixes 5Icons Used in This Book 6Where to Go from Here 6BOOK 1: GETTING STARTED WITH GERMAN 7CHAPTER 1: Warming Up to German Basics 9CHAPTER 2: Handling Numbers, Times, Dates, and Measurements 31CHAPTER 3: Meeting and Greeting: Guten Tag! 51CHAPTER 4: Talking about Home and Family 73CHAPTER 5: Taking Care of Business and Telecommunications 83CHAPTER 6: Shopping Made Easy 101CHAPTER 7: Guten Appetit! Dining Out and Going to the Market 115BOOK 2: SPEAKING GERMAN ON THE GO 139CHAPTER 1: Asking for Directions 141CHAPTER 2: Going Out on the Town 157CHAPTER 3: Planning a Trip: Gute Reise! 171CHAPTER 4: Finding a Place to Stay: Gute Nacht! 191CHAPTER 5: Getting Around: Planes, Trains, Taxis, and Buses 205CHAPTER 6: Handling Emergencies 221BOOK 3: ASSEMBLING THE GRAMMATICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION 237CHAPTER 1: Laying Out the Basics to Build Sentences 239CHAPTER 2: Sorting Out Word Gender and Case 259CHAPTER 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: The Present Tense 279CHAPTER 4: Asking and Answering Questions 297CHAPTER 5: Describing and Comparing with Adjectives and Adverbs 315CHAPTER 6: Modifying Verbs with Helpers: The Modal Auxiliaries 339CHAPTER 7: Instructing and Commanding: The Imperative 357CHAPTER 8: Sorting Out Separable- and Inseparable-Prefix Verbs 369BOOK 4: BUILDING DETAIL AND PRECISION IN YOUR COMMUNICATION 381CHAPTER 1: Tying Ideas Together with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 383CHAPTER 2: Specifying Relationships with Prepositions 395CHAPTER 3: Using Reflexives and Other Verb Combinations 407CHAPTER 4: Conversing about the Past: The Present Perfect and Past Perfect 419CHAPTER 5: Narrating the (Simple) Past: Fact and Fiction 437CHAPTER 6: Looking to the Future (And Avoiding It) 449CHAPTER 7: Describing Your Mood: Summing Up the Subjunctive 461BOOK 5: THE APPENDIXES 475APPENDIX A: Verb Tables and Case Charts 477APPENDIX B: German-English Mini-Dictionary 499APPENDIX C: English-German Mini-Dictionary 511APPENDIX D: Fun & Games 523INDEX 565

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