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Summary: Lots of drill
Review: Alas, drill and repetiton are part of learning a language. This book gives you a LOT. It suffers from a lack of more complex exercises with answers that explain the issues involved, but for a blunt "practice practice" approach its pretty good,The explanations of the rules of grammar are clear.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: An excellent guide and the best medium length grammar book I have come accross. The well thought out material is presented in a generous A4 format (which at least for grammar books, I feel is superior to the much more common pocket size), with a very extensive contents summary and plenty of excercises. This book lends itself to reading from cover to cover as well as serving as a good reference ( admittedly not nearly as extensive as Hammer, but this level of detail would only be confusing to most non-advanced learners anyway). I cant imagine that anyone would regret paying the modest price for this very helpful book.
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Summary: Useful for students of all levels
Review: German grammar is complicated. If you learn German as an adult, you will probably always need to review the many rules that are needed to speak Deutsch correctly. I purchased this book because I have had good luck with Schaum's guides in the past. (If you study Chemistry, Calculus, or Accounting, then you should look at the corresponding guide in the Schaum's series.) The features that I particularly like in this book are as follows: -The book doesn't spend too much time on the really easy material; it assumes a certain level of German proficiency.
-There are many examples; the authors don't merely tell you the rules, they show you how the rules work.
-The authors have placed special emphasis on the aspects of German grammar that are the least intuitive for native English speakers. Overall, a very useful book for any non-native speaker of German. Edward Trimnell, author of "Why You Need a Foreign Language & How to Learn One,"
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Summary: Excellent learning tool for German
Review: I found this an outstanding book for learning German. The book is broken into "chunks"; e.g., one chapter on noun gender, another on the various cases, yet another on prepositions, etc. That helps me to stay focused on the material, and also to retain it. I highly recommend this book for the beginner...but advanced students might find it useful as a review tool.
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Summary: Excellent learning tool for German
Review: I found this an outstanding book for learning German. The book is broken into "chunks"; e.g., one chapter on noun gender, another on the various cases, yet another on prepositions, etc. That helps me to stay focused on the material, and also to retain it. I highly recommend this book for the beginner...but advanced students might find it useful as a review tool.
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Summary: An excellent volume, both for practical learning and for ref
Review: Nothing impresses native German-speakers more than hearing a foreigner speaking their language in a technically correct manner, and this Schaum guide is the quickest way to get your grammar up to scratch. Grammar is undoubtedly the most difficult aspect of the German language, but get it down pat and suddenly everything else about the language will seem much easier. I bought Schaum whilst on exchange in Switzerland four years ago, found it to be indispensable, and still use it now almost every day. Of course mastering grammar takes a lot of rote-learning - there's no getting around 'Hans does this, Hans does that'-style repetition. But Schaum deserves praise for its sensible A4 format, and a manner which is matter-of-fact without being boring. I highly recommended it for exchange students and others working in German-speaking countries: for me it meant the difference between being a somewhat hesitant tourist and being a well-integrated, confident traveller.
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Summary: Lots of Examples
Review: There are countless examples and exercises to imprint the grammar rules into your mind. To benefit from it, you might have to keep practicing, and be very self-disciplined. Totally worth its price. Good for self-study.
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Summary: a good grammar supplement
Review: This book is great for using outside the classroom on your own to repeat and (hopefully!) remember all those pesky little German grammar rules that are so hard to simply memorize. It is self-explanatory and starts at a fairly simple level, ramping up gradually as it progresses. I would recommend writing out the excercises in a notebook so you can redo/review excercises that give you trouble again and again.
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Summary: a good grammar supplement
Review: This book is great for using outside the classroom on your own to repeat and (hopefully!) remember all those pesky little German grammar rules that are so hard to simply memorize. It is self-explanatory and starts at a fairly simple level, ramping up gradually as it progresses. I would recommend writing out the excercises in a notebook so you can redo/review excercises that give you trouble again and again.
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