Everythingï¿½ Learning German Book Speak, Write and Understand Basic German in No Time

Name: Everythingï¿½ Learning German Book Speak, Write and Understand Basic German in No Time
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ISBN: 9781580628754

ISBN-10: 1580628753

ISBN-13: 9781580628754

Edition: 2003

Authors: Edward Swick

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Publication date: 6/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Ed Swick taught German for thirty years. He is the author of several books on German and ESL such as Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions and German Conversation Demystified (McGraw-Hill).

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Top Ten Reasons to Learn German	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
It's Already Your Second Language	p. 1
Where German Came From	p. 2
Germany Today	p. 5
Many People Speak German	p. 6
German Dialects	p. 7
The Vocabulary You Already Have	p. 8
Cognates in Context	p. 10
German Pronunciation	p. 11
Speak, Speak, Speak!	p. 12
The Alphabet	p. 12
The Vowel Sounds	p. 13
Pronouncing the Consonants	p. 16
Letter Combinations	p. 18
Practicing Your Pronunciation	p. 20
Getting Started with the Basics	p. 23
Names and Titles	p. 24
How to Say "Hello"	p. 25
Good-bye!	p. 26
How Are You?	p. 27
Some Important New Words	p. 27
What Is Your Name?	p. 28
Countries and Nationalities	p. 30
You Have to Eat!	p. 32
First Things First	p. 35
Capitalization	p. 36
Understanding Gender	p. 36
The Masculine Nouns	p. 37
The Feminine Nouns	p. 39
The Neuter Nouns	p. 41
Exceptions to the Gender Patterns	p. 42
The Indefinite Article	p. 44
Fun on die Bahn	p. 46
Forming Plurals and Using Pronouns	p. 47
Some Easy Plurals	p. 48
The Plural of Masculine Nouns	p. 48
Feminine Nouns in the Plural	p. 50
Making Neuter Nouns Plural	p. 50
He, She, and It	p. 52
You and I	p. 52
Plural Pronouns	p. 53
Using du, ihr, and Sie	p. 54
Describe That Noun!	p. 55
Getting a Room	p. 57
Coming and Going: Using Verbs	p. 59
Conjugate What?	p. 60
The German Verb sein	p. 60
Verbs of Motion: Going Somewhere	p. 62
Essentials for Life: Eating and Drinking	p. 64
Other Useful Verbs	p. 65
Verbs That End in--ieren	p. 66
Bitten: A Very Versatile Verb	p. 67
Du versus Sie Again	p. 68
Negation with "Not" and "Not Any"	p. 69
Deutschland liegt im Zentrum Europas	p. 71
Verbs with Quirks	p. 73
The German Verb haben	p. 74
Expressing Like with haben	p. 74
The Word morgen	p. 75
Stem Changes in the Present Tense	p. 77
The Many Uses of werden	p. 79
Jobs and Professions	p. 80
Income, Outcome, Welcome: Prefixes with Verbs	p. 81
Prefixes with Verbs of Motion	p. 85
"I Have a Book": Direct Objects and the Accusative Case	p. 87
Direct Objects Aren't Scary at All	p. 88
The English Direct Object	p. 88
The German Direct Object	p. 89
Nominative and Accusative	p. 90
Using Adjectives with Direct Objects	p. 92
Prepositions That Take the Accusative	p. 93
Es gibt ...	p. 95
Other Useful Idioms	p. 95
The Members of Your Family	p. 96
Giving Them the Book: Indirect Objects and the Dative Case	p. 99
What's an Indirect Object?	p. 100
Indirect Objects in German	p. 100
Changing Dative Nouns to Pronouns	p. 102
Sentences Can Be Chock Full of Pronouns!	p. 103
Prepositions That Take the Dative Case	p. 105
Another Use of the Dative Case	p. 105
Around the House	p. 108
Asking Questions	p. 109
The Three Types of Questions	p. 110
Placing a Verb First	p. 110
Interrogative Words	p. 111
Asking Where	p. 113
Asking How and When	p. 113
Asking Who	p. 114
Asking Why	p. 115
The Other Cases of wer	p. 116
What Do You Sell?	p. 119
The Numbers Game	p. 121
Starting at Zero	p. 122
The Next Ten	p. 123
The Rest of the Numbers	p. 124
Street Addresses and Phone Numbers	p. 127
Expressing Quantities	p. 128
Measuring the Metric Way	p. 129
Ordinal Numbers	p. 131
How about Fractions?	p. 132
Compound Numerals	p. 134
Meet Europe's New Currency	p. 134
Telling Time	p. 137
Time of Day	p. 138
Hours and Minutes	p. 139
Asking for the Time	p. 140
Days of the Week	p. 141
The Seasons of the Year	p. 142
Herzlichen Gluckwunsch zum Geburtstag!	p. 143
The Case of Adjectives	p. 144
Using Ordinals to Give Dates	p. 145
Activities in Germany	p. 146
Kaffee und Kuchen	p. 147
Talking about the Past	p. 149
The Regular Past Tense	p. 150
Forming Questions in the Past Tense	p. 151
The Past Tense of Irregular Verbs	p. 152
The Importance of Being	p. 157
A Special Look at haben and werden	p. 158
It's Raining Cats and Dogs!	p. 158
Look to the Future	p. 161
What Are You Doing Tomorrow?	p. 162
Using werden	p. 162
Present, Past, and Future	p. 164
Future Tense with Irregular Verbs	p. 165
The Kaiser Gives the Orders	p. 165
Informal Commands	p. 166
Modern Technology in German	p. 169
Perfect Tenses	p. 171
The Present Perfect Tense with haben	p. 172
Oh, Those Darned Irregularities!	p. 174
Verbs That Use sein with Participles	p. 176
The Past Perfect Tense	p. 179
The Future Perfect Tense	p. 181
Should I or Shouldn't I?	p. 185
What Is a Modal Auxiliary?	p. 186
Modals in the Past	p. 188
Forming the Present Perfect Tense	p. 191
The Future of Modals	p. 193
Another Look at Inseparable Prefixes	p. 194
Revisiting the Separable Prefixes	p. 195
What's Mine Is Yours	p. 199
What Belongs to You and Me	p. 200
The Rest of the Possessive Adjectives	p. 200
A New Case	p. 203
More Uses of the Genitive	p. 205
Parts of Your Body	p. 206
Games and Sports	p. 207
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	p. 209
Antonyms and Other Words of Contrast	p. 210
Der Words and ein Words	p. 211
Some Special Nouns	p. 214
Making Comparisons	p. 215
Good ... Better ... Best	p. 219
Ifs, Ands, and Buts	p. 223
Und, oder, aber, and denn	p. 224
Conjunctions That Affect Word Order	p. 225
Interrogatives Used as Conjunctions	p. 226
More Than Just der, die, and das	p. 228
A New Kind of Preposition	p. 230
German Is Spoken Here	p. 233
Don't Be Passive about the Passive Voice!	p. 234
Forming the Passive Voice in German	p. 235
Using von, durch, and mit	p. 236
Is It Passive or Is It an Adjective?	p. 236
Talking about the Subjunctive	p. 239
Would That It Were Not So	p. 240
He Said ... She Said ...	p. 242
The Past Tense of the Subjunctive Mood	p. 244
And One More Use for wenn!	p. 247
Als ob	p. 249
Answer Key	p. 251
English-to-German Dictionary	p. 259
German-to-English Dictionary	p. 275
Principal Parts of Irregular and Strong Verbs	p. 291
Index	p. 295
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