Easy Ways to Enlarge Your German Vocabulary

by Karl A. Schmidt

Book Overview

Although there are many books that cover German grammar and syntax, remarkably little modern attention has been given to the practical problem of acquiring a German vocabulary. Yet building up or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486230449
• ISBN13: 9780486230443
• Release Date: June 1974
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Absolutely buy this book!!!

I highly recommend this book. It is a wonderful tool for a speaker of English to really expand your vocabulary in German. It helps you learn to start figuring out words for yourself and you realize you know more than you think you know. It helps you get past "the hump" (frustration) of learning a new language when you don't know enough to even try. Even if your grammar is awful, if you have a decent vocabulary, I have noticed that people will try very hard to figure out what you mean and work with you. Thus, communication in German begins. Once you start communicating, it makes learning a new language more enjoyable and fewer "drills" are needed to learn the same material. This really truly is an easy and interesting way to expand your German vocabulary. German teachers should really consider making this book one of the required texts because it helped me tremendously in a very short period of time and it compliments any system or text being used to teach. Buy this book.

My Opinion of Schmidt's book

I think this is one of the best books on German vocabulary I have seen. It's a bit academic, but it more than compensates for that by taking an approach to vocabulary that is largely ignored, that is, by explaining how all those column-width words are formed. By seeing how words are formed, one gets a better idea of the literal sense of the word, and I found that helps me understand better the derivation of English words from German.Every serious student of German should own this book and work the exercises from cover to cover!

A big help!

This book is a great help in building my German vocabulary. By following this book and studing hard, over a period of time we aquired many new German words, their meanings, and how to use them. Covers the relationship between English and German words. And explains with examples, compound words, word origins, roots, adding sufixes and prefixes to make new words and more. Includes easy 84 practice lessons, with answers.This book is a great help. But, it designed to be used with other tutorial books, software, or classroom instruction.

Wonderful!

This book is really great. It teaches German students how to increase their vocabulary by learning the German suffixes and prefixes to add to the existing vocabulary that the student is already familiar with. By learning what each suffix and prefix means, the student need only concern him/herself with the main root of the word. From there the student can invent legitimate German words based on the knowledge gained from this book. In German, it is often very easy to create new words based on the words already known to the speaker & with the help of this book, it becomes a little bit easier. The various suffixes and prefixes are defined & explained and the author describes how each suffix and how each prefix changes the meaning of a root word. I love this book!!

A Book for Everyone Learning German

This is a very useful book for anyone learning German, since it, as promised, gives easy ways to expand your vocabulary, at the same time giving useful insights into how the language works. It explains rules for German wordbuilding, shows how Grimm's Law of sound shifts affects cognate words, and does an excellent job of assisting in the learning of large groups of related words. Definitely a must-have book.