See It and Say It in German

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

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Summary: A worthy and helpful German language learning tool
Review: See It and Say It in German is undoubtedly a useful and informative conversation course for beginners that has helped me along in my endeavor to learn the German language. I've worked through this paperback a handful of times and still gladly refer to and use it. It contains a total of 256 pages. Margarita Madrigal and Inge D. Halpert are the authors of this guide--both of them are internationally well-known language instructors. See It and Say It in German was initially released in 1962. When it comes to the contents, there's a pronunciation guide, conversation lessons, a traveler's handy word guide, a grammar section (containing a list of verbs and exercises), an A-Z German-English vocabulary section, and an index. See It and Say It in German contains two learning methods that have been successfully used by thousands of students: the word-and-picture aid and the ready-made vocabulary. The words, phrases, and sentences are shown with drawings that explain their meanings. Ready-made vocabulary provides the learner from the beginning with words and phrases that look and sound like their English equals. As for the conversation lessons, each page includes one lesson. Actually, you don't have to work through the lessons starting from the beginning; you can randomly go to whichever lesson that you want. Other material that is included within the conversation lessons section are exercises to test your progress, everyday expressions, a page on telling time, a page consisting of a list of regular verbs, another list of verbs on two pages, and a composition on Vienna. The traveler's handy word guide contains words that are used in restaurants, hotels, and stores. Also, numbers, family terms, colors, days of the week, months of the year, seasons of the year, and parts of the body are featured. See It and Say It in German is a good, user-friendly paperback that I find to be helpful.

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Summary: Very helpful
Review: 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.