See It and Say It in German

by Margarita Madrigal and Inge D. Halpert

Book Overview

Here is a book that helps you to master German quickly and easily. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451166787
• ISBN13: 9780451166784
• Release Date: September 1962
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

experience the journey of ages

This book is good for begginers and people who are going to a german speaking country and have only a short time time to learn some german. This book starts you off with some german pronunciation then you start to learn phrases in german and they are shown with pictures to help you remember them. After a few pages you have 10 questions to see what you have learned and if you should move on. You also learn how to conjigate verbs whether they're past, present, reflexive, regular or irregular. There are also glossary's for restaurants and hotels and at the end of the book there is also a german to english glossary. This book does have it's flaws like it doesn't have the informal forms for 'you' they only use the formal forms. If you don't learn du for you singular and ihr for you plural then you won't understand what someone might be saying and you wouldn't know how to conjigate the verbs properly when you want to use informal language.You might also be confused because ihr has other meanings besides you. This book also doesn't use the es-tset which is a letter that isn't in the english alphabet. It looks like a capital B but in it's place they just put 2 ss's which is how you pronounce it but if you come across it somewhere you won't know what it is and it will confuse you. This book also doesn't explain too much about grammar so it leaves you with some questions. So if you want a book to learn some german fast or you just want to see if you might like it then this is the book for you. On the other hand if you want a book that really gets into learning german then you should look elsewhere.

Very helpful

This little pocket book is very useful to go along with whatever German language course you're taking. Not only will this book help you to learn how to pronounce German syllables and letters correctly, but there are simple drawings on each page to help you become familiar with each new word or phrase.I've been studying German off and on for the last twenty-one years and I bought this in 1980 to go along with the language course I was taking. Without it I doubt I would have come this far. I met my longtime German penpal many years later and got to try out my German with him. He was impressed with my pronunciation. I highly recommend this book as well as the other editions for French, Spanish and Italian.

Best Beginning German Book I've ever read out of hundreds!

Have lived in Germany and Austria several years. Used this book when I initially moved to Germany and literally was comfortable speaking after only 3 months! I recommend this to all my colleagues who travel abroad. Also, anybody who is serious about learning a language must realize that classroom instruction is very purposeful to get you in the right direction for both pronunciation and grammer, but sitting down and learning on your own is unquestionably the absolute only way to really learn a foriegn language (I speak 3). This book RULES!

Great Introduction to the Language

I too, like the previous reviewer, have never regretted buying this book. I've since moved on to other texts, audio, and so on. But I will always cherish this book for having shepherded me gently into this marvelous, and sometimes perplexing, language.

This Is A Highly Recommended Book

I have never been sorry about purchasing this book. I've been learning German for just over two years. This book has been a great help, and has not been frustrating in the least. It's set up to where you can just open it to any of it's pages and start learning. It's not arranged to where you have to go from front to back. I have many tools to learn German, but this is one of them that truly shines out. Das ist ein gutes Buch! Kaufen Sie es. This is a good book. Buy it.