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German: A Self-Teaching Guide
The fast track to speaking and understanding basic German
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Now you can learn how--quickly and easily--with this practical, self-paced guide. It combines the user-friendly virtues of a phrase book with the learning tools of a full-fledged language course to provide you with the basic vocabulary and grammar you need to start using German right away. Completely revised and updated for today's usage, this new edition gives
* A proven interactive format that lets you teach yourself at your own pace
* Exercises to reinforce what you've learned
* Clear explanations of German grammatical structures
* More than 1,000 of the most frequently used German words
* Sample dialogues with cultural notes and lists of terms
See inside for information on German pronunciation cassette.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Now you can learn how--quickly and easily--with this practical, self-paced guide. It combines the user-friendly virtues of a phrase book with the learning tools of a full-fledged language course to provide you with the basic vocabulary and grammar you need to start using German right away. Completely revised and updated for today's usage, this new edition gives
* A proven interactive format that lets you teach yourself at your own pace
* Exercises to reinforce what you've learned
* Clear explanations of German grammatical structures
* More than 1,000 of the most frequently used German words
* Sample dialogues with cultural notes and lists of terms
See inside for information on German pronunciation cassette.
288 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1986
About the author
Heimy F. Taylor
6 booksHeimtraut "Heimy" Taylor was a German Professor at Ohio State University in the USA.
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Heimy married and emigrated to the United States, earning degrees in Utah and Pennsylvania. She wrote her dissertation at Washington University, St. Louis, “Die Bedeutung der Familie in der Novellistik und dem Leben Theodor Storms: Eine literatur-soziologische Studie“ with Professor Peter Uwe Hohendahl, after which she joined the faculty at Ohio State in the fall of 1973.
From 1973-1979, Heimy served as Associate Director of Language Instruction in the Department of German. During these years, she worked together with Werner Haas on three innovative and effective computer programs: Deutscher Computer Unterricht (1973; rev. 1974, 1975), Tutorial Computer (1974), and Deutscher Computer Unterricht for Individualized Instruction (1978). And in 1986, she completed a significant comprehensive computer-assisted German grammar program and tutorial (Tuco II).
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Heimy married and emigrated to the United States, earning degrees in Utah and Pennsylvania. She wrote her dissertation at Washington University, St. Louis, “Die Bedeutung der Familie in der Novellistik und dem Leben Theodor Storms: Eine literatur-soziologische Studie“ with Professor Peter Uwe Hohendahl, after which she joined the faculty at Ohio State in the fall of 1973.
From 1973-1979, Heimy served as Associate Director of Language Instruction in the Department of German. During these years, she worked together with Werner Haas on three innovative and effective computer programs: Deutscher Computer Unterricht (1973; rev. 1974, 1975), Tutorial Computer (1974), and Deutscher Computer Unterricht for Individualized Instruction (1978). And in 1986, she completed a significant comprehensive computer-assisted German grammar program and tutorial (Tuco II).
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