Name: 50 Ways to Improve your German: Teach Yourself By Sieglinde Klovekorn-Ward
SKU: 9781444110654
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50 Ways to Improve your German: Teach Yourself by Sieglinde Klovekorn-Ward

Is this the right course for me?

Do you have a working knowledge of German, but want to improve? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen. Each one of 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written German is presented and analyzed across a whole double page, with explanations as to where and why people sometimes go wrong. The tips are grouped into grammar, spelling, false friends, pronunciation and cultural faux pas sections.

Polish your German with this brand new series from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. 50 Ways to Improve your German touches all essential bases and is divided into easily digestible.

Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features:

Insights
Instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on Sieglinde Kloevekorn-Ward's many years of experience.

Summaries
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

Grammar
Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding.

Pronunciation
Don't sound like a tourist - polish your pronunciation before you go.

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About Sieglinde Klovekorn-Ward

Sieglinde Kloevekorn-Ward is a native German speaker with extensive experience in teaching and teacher-training. She has worked as a freelance tutor for the University of Surrey and teaches at the Centre for International Briefing, Farnham.

: Meet the author
: Only got a minute?
: Only got five minutes?
: Only got ten minutes?
: How to use this book
: Sounding right
1: We will sound you out!
2: Don't forget the capitals or the umlauts!
: Getting the structure right
3: A very important date
4: The trouble with males and females: masculine nouns
5: The problem with males and females: feminine nouns
6: The need for neutrality - neuter nouns
7: The gender of compound nouns - what's the problem?
8: Plurals - why can't I just add an -s?
9: The magimix of mein, dein, sein
10: All change: vowel changes after du and er, sie, es
11: The perfect tense: 'I have gone' or 'I am gone'?
12: Separable verbs: no need to make the divorce acrimonious
13: Don't muddle the modals: mussen, sollen, moegen, durfen
14: Are the Germans nutcases? Or: who or whom do you love?
15: Prepositions that always take the dative
16: Prepositions that always take the accusative
17: Cases and prepositions - motion or no motion? That is the question!
18: Zum, zur, im, am ... zum Kuckuck! Whatever next?
19: Da + prepositions: dafur, damit
20: Der alte Apfelbaum: adjective endings after der, die, das
21: Ein neuer Computer: adjective endings after ein, eine, ein
22: Gute Laune: adjective endings when there is no article
23: The present continuous: are you sitting comfortably?
24: Let's twist again! When does the verb stand in second place?
25a: Das kann ich! Word order with modal verbs
25b: Gestern wollten wir ein Fussballspiel sehen. Modal verbs in past tenses
26a: The position of direct and indirect objects
26b: Where to put nicht, nie and auch
27a: Word order after dass, weil, wann or wenn
27b: Word order: saying when, where, how and why
28: Wie or wer? Wo or was?
: Choosing the right words
29: Introducing yourself: The name is Blonde, J. Blonde
30: Greeting people: names and titles are important
31a: Polite beginnings: Wie geht es Ihnen?
31b: Polite beginnings: Entschuldigen Sie (mich)!
32: 'I am a doughnut!' Really?
33: And where do you come from?
34: Ja and aber - two necessary evils
35: Denn, doch and einmal - more necessary evils
36: Erst and nur - only two words
37: The use and misuse of haben
38: I'd like another one, please - no, NOT ein anderes!
39: For breakfast, the Germans have no appetite for fur
40: Eins or ein?
41: Rock around the clock
42: Doctor, doctor!
43: Du, Sie, sie, ihr, Sie, sie, plus dieser and jeder
44: How shall I put this? Plus a little help with machen
45: Es gibt and other uses of es
46a: Say what you mean and mean what you say: nouns and adjectives
46b: Say what you mean and mean what you say: verbs
47: Get your skates on: going by car, plane, etc.
48: 'When', 'if' and als
49: Increase your word power - live in style!
50: Want to know a few secrets?
: Glossary of grammatical terms
: or, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Grammatical Gobbledygook
: Index

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GOR006507730

ISBN 13

9781444110654

ISBN 10

1444110659

Title

50 Ways to Improve your German: Teach Yourself by Sieglinde Klovekorn-Ward

Author

Sieglinde Klovekorn-Ward

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

John Murray Press

Year published

2010-08-27

Number of pages

160

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N/A

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50 Ways to Improve your German: Teach Yourself Sieglinde Klovekorn-Ward

50 Ways to Improve your German: Teach Yourself by Sieglinde Klovekorn-Ward

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50 Ways to Improve your German: Teach Yourself by Sieglinde Klovekorn-Ward

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