Contents
Introduction
01 / Beginning German
Learn Your ABCs and How to Pronounce Them
Sounds: Vowels, Consonants, and Combinations
Numbers and Counting
German in English, English in German
Speak! Speak! Speak!
02 / Building Your Vocabulary
Names and Titles
Greetings and Goodbye’s
Countries and Nationalities
Days and Dates
Telling Time
Family Members
Basic Food and Eating Terms
03 / Grammar
Intro to Grammar
Understanding Gender
Person, Place, or Thing?
Articles Are Important
Making Nouns Plural
Pronouns
Adjectives and Where They Stand
Verbs: Infinitives, Auxiliaries, and Conjugations
Going Somewhere? Verbs of Motion
Present Tense
Verbs That End in –ieren
Negation
Irregular Verbs
Past Tense
Future Tense
Prefixes
Direct Objects
Indirect Objects
04 / Putting It All Together
Questions
Commands
Express Yourself with Feeling Verbs
Idiomatic Expressions
What’s Yours? Possessives
Describing Things and People
Conjunctions: Ifs, Ands, and Buts
05 / Getting Around
Securing a Room
Around the House
Kaffee und Kuchen
Modern Times and Technology in Germany
Games and Sports
A Love for Animals
Paying with the Euro
Appendix A / German to English Dictionary
Appendix B / English to German Dictionary