German Made Simple Learn to speak and understand German quickly and easily

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Pub. Date: 2006-05-16
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Summary

Learning German Has Never Been Easier! Whether you are studying the language in school, planning a trip to Germany or Austria, or trying to learn the basics of the language closest to English,German Made Simpleis the perfect book for any self-learner. Void of all nonessentials and refreshingly easy to understand,German Made Simpleincludes: Basics of grammar Modern vocabulary Pronunciation guide Reading exercises Economic information Common expressions Review exercises Complete answer key German-English dictionary Look for these Made Simple titles: Accounting Made Simple Arithmetic Made Simple Astronomy Made Simple Biology Made Simple Bookkeeping Made Simple Business Letters Made Simple Chemistry Made Simple Computer Science Made Simple Earth Science Made Simple English Made Simple French Made Simple Ingles Hecho Facil Investing Made Simple Italian Made Simple Keyboarding Made Simple Latin Made Simple Learning English Made Simple Mathematics Made Simple The Perfect Business Plan Made Simple Philosophy Made Simple Physics Made Simple Psychology Made Simple Sign Language Made Simple Spanish Made Simple Spelling Made Simple Statistics Made Simple Your Small Business Made Simple

Author Biography

Arnold Leitner, PhD, is an accomplished multilingual scholar (German, Italian, Portuguese) with extensive experience in devising instructional literature and in teaching German as a foreign language. He is an instructor of German at the College of Economics in Tamsweg, Austria.

Table of Contents

Meet the German Language
1(4)
German and English belong to the same family of languages
Related German and English words
German is not difficult to pronounce and spell
A preview of some interesting features of German
German Letters and Sounds in Words and Sentences
5(9)
The vowels a, e, i, o, u
The consonants
The vowel combinations au, ei, eu
The modified vowels a, o, u
Front ch, back ch
Final g
The German alphabet
The German letter ß
Summary of letters and sounds
The Clark Family
14(5)
The family (die Familie)
Gender of nouns
Definite article and noun in the nominative case
Agreement of third-person pronouns
Asking somebody's name
Mr. Clark is Hungry
19(4)
The indefinite article ein, kein
Some German verb endings
The negative nicht
The formation of questions
Who is Mr. Clark?
23(7)
Noun plurals
Common professions
Present tense of gehen
Three ways of saying you
Familiar verbs like gehen in the present tense
Question words
Asking somebody's age
Mrs. Clark Goes Shopping
30(6)
Imperative (command) forms
Accusative case of nouns, definite and indefinite articles, kein, wer and was
Feminine nouns with the ending--in
Asking for the price
The Home of the Clark Family
36(5)
The one-family house (das Einfamilienhaus)
More noun plurals
Present tense of sein and haben
Accusative case, third-person pronouns
Some prepositions with the accusative case
Looking for a new home
Why is Mr. Clark Learning German?
41(6)
Compound nouns
Opposites
Present tense of antworten, reden, sprechen
Modal verb wollen
Word order: normal and inverted word order
Position of infinitives
A German Lesson
47(7)
Modal verb mussen
Dative or ``to'' case of nouns, articles and kein
Some common verbs that may take indirect objects
Dative of third person pronouns and of wer
Dative prepositions
Where Does the Clark Family Live?
54(7)
Expressions of ``liking'' with gern and lieber
Es gibt there is, there are
Present tense of laufen, fahren
Prepositions with the dative or accusative
Da(r) and wo(r) combinations
What a mess!
The Secret of Mr. Clark
61(6)
Genitive case
The use of von in place of the genitive
The interrogative wessen
Prepositions with the genitive case
Present tense of kennen and of wissen
Review of Chapters 1--11
67(9)
Summary: Nouns, verbs, prepositions (dative, dative or accusative, accusative, genitive)
German expressions
Vocabulary exercises
Grammar review and exercises: noun declensions, all cases; masculine nouns with -n or -en endings
Compound nouns
Dialogues
Wo ist die Thomasstraße?
Wo halt der Bus an?
Lesestucke
Herr Clark lernt Deutsch
Die Deutschsprachigen Lander: Deutschland, Osterreich und Schweiz
A Friend Visits Mr. Clark
76(7)
Present tense of lesen, treten
Possessive adjectives (ein-words)
Packing a suitcase
Mr. Clark Makes a Phone Call
83(7)
Infinitives used as nouns
Numerals 1 to 100
Present tense of konnen, tun
Der-words: dieser, jener, jeder, welcher, aller
Making phone calls
Dollars and Euros
90(6)
The European currency
Numerals over 100
Arithmetic
Subordinate word order
Subordinating conjunctions dass, wenn
Coordinating conjunctions und, aber, oder, denn
Talking about prices
Mrs. Clark Goes Shopping with Her Children
96(6)
Clothes
The ``Do-er''
Present tense of tragen, lassen
About adjective endings
Adjectives preceded by a der-word
Adjectives preceded by an ein-word
Adjectives preceded by neither a der-word nor an ein-word
Colors
What Time is It?
102(6)
Travelling
Expressions of satisfaction or approval
Dieser the latter, jener the former
Travel expressions
Time of day
The 24-hour clock
Separable verbs, present tense
First and second person pronouns (nominative, dative, accusative)
Review of Chapters 13--17
108(7)
Summary: Nouns, verbs, German expressions
Vocabulary exercises
Grammar review and exercises: Summary of adjective endings; summary of first-, second- and third-person pronouns (nominative, dative and accusative)
Dialogues:
Ihre Uhr geht nach
Wo muss ich aussteigen?
Lesestuck: Karl lernt nicht gern Mathematik
Mr. Clark's Working Day
115(8)
Some foods
The present tense of nehmen, durfen
Reflexive verbs, present tense of sich setzen
Some common reflexive
Reflexive pronouns in the dative
Separable verbs in subordinate clauses
Little Anne Was Sick
123(6)
Present tense of schlafen, sollen
Regular and irregular verbs in English
The past tense of weak (regular) verbs in German
Some familiar weak verbs, present and past
Past tense of strong (irregular) verbs
Some familiar strong verbs, present and past
Some expressions referring to past time
A fairy tale: Rotkappchen
What Horrible Weather!
129(7)
Expressions of weather
Some familiar separable verbs (present and past)
The position of the separable prefix of verbs (present and past) in simple sentences and main clauses
Position of separable verbs in subordinate clauses
Hin and her
More subordinating conjunctions
Wann, wenn, als
April does What It Wants
136(7)
The seasons
The months of the year
Gern, lieber, am liebsten
Present tense of werden, mogen
Inseparable verbs
Verbs that take a dative object
A Visit for Mr. Clark
143(6)
Present and past tense of essen
The relative pronouns
Wo(r) combinations used for relative pronouns with prepositions
Wer and was as relative pronouns
Call My Bluff
Review of Chapters 19--23
149(9)
Summary: Verbs (present and past)
German expressions
Vocabulary exercises
Grammar review and exercises: modal auxiliaries, present tense; modal auxiliaries, past tense; subordinate word order; expressions of definite time and duration of time
Dialogues:
Zwei Freunde begegnen sich auf der Straße
Ich habe Hunger
Lesestuck: Herr Clark war krank
The Clark Family Goes to the Movies
158(5)
Cinema expressions
Ordinal numerals
Dates
The Reunification of the Two Germanies
163(6)
The present perfect tense (``Perfekt'')
Formation of the past participle
The principal parts of verbs
Use of the past and present perfect tenses
A Typical Weekend at the Clarks'
169(7)
Imperative of sein
The past perfect tense
Past participle of verbs ending in -ieren
Verbs with the auxiliary sein
The principal parts of some sein-verbs
Mr. Muller Tells About Himself
176(5)
Some very special verbs with the auxiliary sein
Indirect questions with wie, wo, wann, wer, was, warum
The present and past perfect tenses in subordinate clauses
Mr. Clark Writes a Letter to His Business Partner in Munich
181(5)
Formal letters: date, beginning, closing
The future tense
The present tense with future meaning
The future tense in subordinate clauses
Hobbies
Review of Chapters 25--29
186(5)
Summary: Verbs, German expressions
Vocabulary exercises
Grammar review and exercises: Present, past, present perfect, past perfect and future tenses; the subordinate word order of verbs in the present perfect, past perfect and future; summary of subordinating conjunctions
Vier Dialoge
Lesestucke
Frau Clark hat Geburtstag
Ein toller Film im Kino
Mr. Clark Receives an Answer to His Letter
191(6)
Related words
Mixed verbs
The infinitive with zu
The infinitive without zu
The Geography of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
197(6)
Expressions of geography
Imperative in the first-person plural
Comparison of adjectives
Some adjectives irregular in comparison
Case endings in the comparative and superlative
Sights in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
German Cooking
203(6)
The am -sten form of the superlative of adjectives
Comparison of adverbs
A recipe: Apfelkuchen
What Cities Will You Visit, Mr. Clark?
209(5)
The future tense of modal auxiliaries
The future perfect tense
Making predictions
Mr. Clark Sets Out for Germany
214(5)
Two word families
About the verbs lassen and verlassen
Map of Germany
Review of Chapters 31--35
219(5)
Summary: Verbs (principal parts), German expressions
Vocabulary exercises
Grammar review and exercises: Case endings for the comparative and superlative of adjectives
Five tenses of verbs
Dialogues:
Deutsche oder amerikanische Filme?
Im Restaurant
Modernes Lesestuck: Frau Clark shoppt im Internet
Arrival in Munich
224(6)
Am Flughafen at the Airport
Willkommen in Deutschland Welcome to Germany
The present participle used as an adjective
More sein-verbs
Mr. Clark Visits the Schiller Family
230(6)
Ein Telefongesprach A Telephone Conversation
Eine Vorstellung An Introduction
Prepositions with special meanings after certain verbs
An Excursion to the Ammersee
236(6)
Automobile terms
Informal letters: beginnings, endings
More strong verbs, principal parts
Principal parts of modals
The double infinitive
The double infinitive with lassen, sehen, horen
Mr. Clark Leaves Germany
242(5)
Summary of German word order in simple sentences and main clauses
Summary of word order in subordinate clauses
Review of Chapters 37--40
247(5)
Summary: Verbs, German expressions
Vocabulary exercises
Dialogue: An der Tankstelle At the Gas Station
Lesestucke:
Das deutsche Fernsehen
Herrn Clarks Rheinreise
Letter to a Friend in Chicago
252(7)
About the subjunctive
The present subjunctive
The past subjunctive
The present perfect and past perfect subjunctive
The wurde-form
Use of the subjunctive in conditional sentences
Word order in conditional sentences
Omission of wenn
Daydreaming: Wenn ich . . .
Report of a Conversation Between Mr. Clark and Mr. Muller
259(5)
The subjunctive in indirect discourse
What Happens in the Hotel?
264(5)
Answer Section
269(18)
German-English Vocabulary
287(12)
English-German Vocabulary
299(7)
Communication Games
306

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