Easy German

by Erick P. Byrd

Book Overview

This dictionary lists and defines the vocabulary the beginner first encounters in courses and real conversation. Easy German grammar, maps, illustrations and useful appendices make it simple to find... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844205532
• ISBN13: 9780844205533
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book, excellent linguist

Dr. Byrd is the man. I had him in a foreign language class, not only is he very knowledgable, but interesting. I would highly recommend anything written by him. He is truly an expert in his field, please, get this if you want to increase your German knowledge (and learn from a really cool guy). Knox

Wish Intermediate and Advanced editions were available too.

I like the fact that, while decently large, this dictionary keeps its focus on fairly EASY German. With verb conjugations and example sentences to demonstrate the use of each and every word, I find it an easy way to boost my vocabulary without getting too side-tracked by grammar. (I don't mind learning that elsewhere.) I also found that I could use the 2nd half of the book (the English translations for German-speakers) to get a good handle on the pronounciation keys. Seeing how they instruct German-speakers to pronounce words I AM familiar with has been really helpful to me in studying the German half.

Good dictionary for beginning German speakers.

This English/German, German/English dictionary is the perfect aid for the beginning German speaker. It has pronounciation guides tailored for English speakers, sample sentences in English and German, plus gender, plurals, etc. for each word. Because of the size of each entry, there is not the large number of words that other bilingual dictionaries contain, so it will be less useful for the advanced German speaker. Overall, an excellent introduction to German.