These CD's are to be used in conjunction with the Routledge Intensive German course. Recorded by native speakers, they include dialogues, exercises and a variety of texts to help students using the course to improve their listening comprehension and pronunciation skills.
Does teach a lot of vocab; though the topics especially in the later part of the book seemed a bit advanced for "beginner" learners. It has entire units that teach vocab about health trends, employment opportunities, educational systems and such when maybe it would have been more useful to have more basic stuff.