Product Overview
Youll find German spoken all over the worldGerman tourists are famously intrepidand especially across much of Europe, including (besides Germany, of course) Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy, the Czech Republic, and several other countries. Whether youre taking a trip to Germany or just want to surprise your German neighbor with a hi-how-are-you, learning this language will help you see the world and yourself from an entirely different perspective.
German For Dummies uses the renowned Berlitz approach to get you up and running with the languageand having fun too! Designed for the total beginner, this guidewith dialogue and pronunciation audio CD includedwill introduce you to basic grammar, then speedily have you talking about:
- Dining out
- Shopping
- The office
- Planning a trip
- Recreation
- Partying
- Trains, planes, and automobiles
In addition to the audio conversations, fun and games sections ease your way into German fluency, while phonetic spellings following expressions and vocabulary improve your pronunciation, and helpful boxes and sidebars cover cultural quirks and factoids. And, in trademark For Dummies fashion, youll go beyond expressions for checking train schedules or buying potatoes to learn:
- Things never to say in German
- Ways to pick up German quickly
- Phrases that make you sound German
- Holidays to remember
- Emailing and Internet vocabulary
- German TV and movie vocabulary
- How to browse and window-shop in Germany with style
Whether youre just looking for a greeting besides Guten tag, or you want to host a foreign exchange student, or want to become one yourself, German For Dummies gives you what you need to learn the languageas much as you like, as fast as you like. Gehen wir! (gehn veer) (Lets get going!)
