German Workbook For Dummies

Wendy Foster loves languages. She fell in love with German language and culture while studying abroad in Europe. She then spent 30 years in Munich studying German and traveling to Paris to complete her MA in French. Later, she lived in Spain and immersed herself in Spanish language and culture. She’s now a polyglot living in New England.

• Introduction 1Part 1: The Basic Building Blocks of German 7Chapter 1: Laying the Foundations of German 9Chapter 2: Assembling the Basic Tools for German Sentences 29Chapter 3: Sorting Out Word Gender and Case 45Chapter 4: Building Your Word Power 61Part 2: Focusing on the Present 77Chapter 5: Grasping the Present Tense 79Chapter 6: Asking and Answering Intelligently; Giving Orders 97Chapter 7: In the Mood: Combining Verbs with Modal Auxiliaries 121Chapter 8: Sorting Out Separable- and Inseparable-Prefix Verbs 141Part 3: Adding Flair to Your Conversations 159Chapter 9: Sounding More Like a Native with Verb Combinations 161Chapter 10: Adding Adjectives for Description 175Chapter 11: Comparing with Adjectives and Adverbs 197Chapter 12: Connecting with Conjunctions 217Chapter 13: Your Preposition Primer 231Part 4: Looking Back and Ahead: Talking about the Past and the Future 247Chapter 14: Conversing about the Past: Perfecting the Present Perfect 249Chapter 15: Narrating the (Simple) Past: Fact and Fiction 263Chapter 16: Looking to the Future (And Avoiding It) 281Part 5: The Part of Tens 293Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Optimizing Your German 295Chapter 18: Ten Pitfalls to Avoid in German 301Part 6: Appendixes 307Appendix A: Verb Charts 309Appendix B: English-German Dictionary 319Appendix C: German-English Dictionary 323Index 327

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