Gain the confidence to strike up a conversation in German!
Speaking a new language can be intimidating. This popular guide will give you the confidence to start and engage in conversations in German. Extensive streaming audio recordings let you hear German as it is spoken by native speakers.  The book is organized around 12 units covering specific, real-world conversational situations. Each unit provides helpful instruction on correct pronunciation, grammar, syntax, and word usage. And each section includes a series of exercises to give you extra practice using new concepts. You’ll find all the guidance you need to construct personalized conversations and achieve a confidence speaking style.

Practice Makes Perfect: German Conversation features:

• Streaming audio recordings of all dialogues in the book
• Engaging dialogues of practical conversational situations
• Realistic example phrases and sentences you can use
• Extensive exercises to help you hone your speaking skills
• An answer key for reference and quick feedback
• Everything you need to talk more like a native speaker

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Get the intensive practice and instruction you need to speak German with confidence!

When it comes to learning a new language, practice does make perfect. This comprehensive, easy-to-use guide covers all aspects of German grammar, including present tense regular verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. Packed with crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of engaging exercises, Practice Makes Perfect: Complete German Grammar, Second Edition brings you everything you need to build your new language skills.

Example sentences illustrate and clarify each grammatical point and a helpful answer key provides quick feedback. Featuring a variety of interactive quizzes, the convenient McGraw-Hill Language Lab app makes it easy to study on-the-go. A new chapter reviewing all the material covered in the book reinforces what you’ve learned. Offering a winning formula for getting a handle on German grammar right away, this is an indispensable resource for learning to communicate effectively and confidently in German.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete German Grammar, Second Edition features:

• A proven combination of language instruction and practice
• Exercises in an array of formats to suit every learning style
• Example sentences illustrating each grammatical point
• A new chapter of a new chapter of review exercises
• Practical and high-frequency vocabulary throughout the book
• Interactive quizzes and streaming audio recordings via the McGraw-Hill Language Lab for study on-the-go

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Go beyond conjugation and learn the right verb tenses for speaking and writing in German

If you are looking for help memorizing German verb conjugations, then any German verb book will do. But if you are interested in becoming fluent in German, you'll need to learn how these language building blocks are used in everyday speech and writing. That's where Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses comes in.

The ideal reference/workbook for beginning to intermediate German-language learners, Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses shows you when and why to use certain verb tenses and gives you plenty of examples, increasing your confidence in choosing the right word.

Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses lets you:

• Learn when and why to use different verb tenses
• Reinforce your knowledge with everyday examples covering a wide range of topics
• Build your verb skills using more than 100 engaging exercisesWith numerous skill-building exercises, comprehensive verb conjugation tables, and the proven Practice Makes Perfect format, you will learn to speak and write in German fluently in no time at all.

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Master the words and phrases necessary for handling everyday situations

Practice Makes Perfect: German Vocabulary helps you develop your vocabulary by providing practice in word-building and encouraging you to analyze new words for an ever-increasing vocabulary. Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme, such as family or travel, so you can build your language skills in a systematic manner. As you lay the foundation for an increasing vocabulary, you are able to perfect your new words with plenty of exercises and gain the confidence to communicate well in German.

Practice Makes Perfect: German Vocabulary offers you:

• More than 100 exercises
• Concise grammatical explanations
• A new chapter on contemporary vocabulary
• An answer key to gauge your comprehensionWith help from this book, you can easily speak or write in German about:
  Different occupations and jobs * German holidays and traditions * Taking the train * Growing your own garden * Where it hurts on your body * Your house * Your family and friends * What you studied in school * Your favorite TV show * Your family's background . . . and much more!

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The go-to sentence-building guide now includes a brand-new, fully comprehensive review chapter!

You’ve learned the fundamentals of German grammar, like spelling, word meanings, and parts of speech. Now it’s time to take the next step and put them all together to communicate complete ideas. Practice Makes Perfect German Sentence Builder, Second Edition guides you through the process of putting the “parts” of German together correctly, from connecting words into clauses to writing original sentences to creating whole paragraphs. You’ll get where you want in no time through Practice Makes Perfect’s systematic, crystal-clear approach to building sentences.

Practice Makes Perfect German Sentence Builder, Second Edition features:

• Clear explanations of how to apply grammar to create well-formed sentences
• Numerous examples of correctly-formed German sentences
• Lesson reinforcement with copious practice exercises, include multiple choice, sentence-correction, and building new sentences from scratch
• Answer key, including suggestions for creative exercises

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Based on the successful approach of the Practice Makes Perfect series, German Pronouns and Prepositions offers a clear and engaging presentation of all aspects of pronoun and preposition usage, combined with extensive practice, for beginning and intermediate language learners. This new edition features a new review chapter that allows learners to pull together the grammar skills they’ve acquired.

This new edition in the successful Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions offers a detailed examination of these two essential aspects of grammar, which language learners need to master to communicate with confidence. Learners of a foreign language often have difficulty with these areas because the usage of pronouns or prepositions rarely translates directly from English to the new language. Thus, language learners need much more practice in the areas of pronoun and preposition usage than is provided in general grammar books.

This book provides clear explanations of the usage of pronouns and prepositions, followed by practical examples illustrating and clarifying each point. Extensive and varied exercises provide ample opportunity to practice. Answers to all questions are provided at the back of the book, providing immediate feedback.

The new edition features a brand-new review chapter that allows learners to pull together the grammar skills they’ve acquired throughout the book.

• New edition features a brand-new review chapter
• Details all aspects of pronoun and preposition usage
• Clarifies the subtleties of pronouns and prepositions that often escape language learners
• Highly varied and extensive exercises for practice
• Practical and high-frequency vocabulary used throughout
• Answer key provided for reference and quick feedback Combines the best elements of instruction and practice so readers find all they need in one book.

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Ed Swick has taught ESL for 30 years. He is the author of Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners and Practice Makes Perfect: English Sentence Builder.

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Tackle head-on all the hurdles that you find hard about learning German

Practice Makes Perfect: German Problem Solver doesn't pretend that learning German is easy. Instead of covering the entirety of the language, it hones in on those areas where you might have difficulty--areas such as der vs. die vs. das, capitalization and punctuation, subject-verb agreement, determiners and adverbs of degree, and phrasal verbs.

Features:

• A variety of extensive exercises for practice
• Practical and high-frequency vocabulary
• Answer key provided for reference and quick feedbackDon't sweat those troublesome grammar areas any more! Practice Makes Perfect: German Problem Solver is your perfect learning tool for ironing out your troubles.

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This completely updated edition of A Frequency Dictionary of German contains the 5,000 most commonly used words of German today, occurring in a 20-million-word corpus (compared to a 4.2-million-word corpus in the first edition). The basis of the frequency list is a significantly extended version of the Herder/BYU Corpus of Contemporary German. The Dictionary contains spoken and written German, and represents different genres, text types, registers, styles, and also regional varieties.

The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguists.

The corpus is designed to represent the current German language as it is used in the real world. Useful as a reference for students and course designers alike, A Frequency Dictionary of German is an important new resource.

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This new edition of Practising German Grammar provides you with varied and accessible exercises for developing an in-depth and practical awareness of German as it is spoken and written today.

Whether used independently or as the ideal companion to the new sixth edition of the widely acclaimed Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage, this fourth edition of Practising German Grammar gives you the right tools to achieve high-level writing competence and comprehension of German.

Using lively, authentic texts from a wide range of original sources and offering a variety of new and updated exercises designed to stimulate and to give confidence, Practising German Grammar will help you to master the complexities of the German language.

Created especially for the new edition, a companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/durrell offers a wide range of exercises and quizzes on all the main areas of German, suitable for self-study and to accompany instructed grammar courses.

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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 400 exercises with answers to sharpen your German grammar skills. Plus, you will have access to 2.5 hours of downloadable audio files for additional practice--it's just like having your own virtual tutor! You'll find everything you need to build confidence, skills, and knowledge for the highest score possible.

More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. Helpful tables and illustrations increase your understanding of the subject at hand.This Schaum's Outline gives you

• More than 400 exercises with answers
• Coverage of contemporary conversational German, including expressions, slang, and idioms
• Support for all the major textbooks for German courses

Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum’s to shorten your study time--and get your best test scores!

Schaum's Outlines--Problem Solved.

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