Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses | Date: 28 April 2011, 09:06
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Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses (Practice Makes Perfect Series)
By Astrid Henschel
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill
* Number Of Pages: 256
* Publication Date: 2006-03-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071451374
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071451376
Product Description:
Go beyond conjugation and learn the right verb tenses for speaking and writing in German
If you are looking for help memorizing German verb conjugations, then any German verb book will do. But if you are interested in becoming fluent in German, you'll need to learn how these language building blocks are used in everyday speech and writing. That's where Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses comes in.
The ideal reference/workbook for beginning to intermediate German-language learners, Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses shows you when and why to use certain verb tenses and gives you plenty of examples, increasing your confidence in choosing the right word.
Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses lets you:
* Learn when and why to use different verb tenses
* Reinforce your knowledge with everyday examples covering a wide range of topics
* Build your verb skills using more than 100 engaging exercises
With numerous skill-building exercises, comprehensive verb conjugation tables, and the proven Practice Makes Perfect format, you will learn to speak and write in German fluently in no time at all.
Summary: Practice makes perfect
Rating: 3
As someone else already pointed out, this book is not meant for begginers. It requires one to have a good deutsch vocabulary.
Summary: Excellent
Rating: 5
This book is very, very helpful. It introduces the grammatical concept, notes any important exceptions, gives a few helpful examples, and then lets gives you several practice exercises with a full answer key in the back. It is extremely comprehensive, covering the Present Tense, the Narrative and Conversational Past tenses, the Future Tense, and the Subjunctive Mood. The Modal Auxiliaries are given extensive treatment in all tenses. Early on I was frustrated that it did not seem to indicate which form of "Sie" it wanted you to conjugate, but then I realized the fragments in the exercises actually form a cohesive narrative and you can induce which form of "Sie" it is by simply following the story. This book is also an excellent way to build your vocabulary; whenever you encounter a verb or noun you are unfamiliar with you can jot it down and look it up. Overall highly recommended for the intermediate German student. (Beginners look elsewhere)
Summary: Practice makes Perfect is Perfect!
Rating: 5
I'm a MS & HS German teacher and I think this book is a great resource for teaching students or teaching yourself. Each new section begins with an explanation of the grammar concept, followed by several practice exercises. The explanations & exercises are very comprehensive and the answer key is included in the back of the book. I own all three books in the series (Pronouns & Prepositions, Verb Tenses, & Vocabulary) and I recommend them all!
*Watch for Astrid Henschel's other book by the name of "German Verb Drills" (it's purple & white) it's handy, but for the same price the Practice Makes Perfect book is twice the size. Stick with this one!
Summary: Recommend Buying This Book
Rating: 5
The German Verb Tenses book is a very helpful book if you have a working knowledge of German. It may be to difficult for the very beginner German student.
I have personally found the German Verb Tenses book to help me improve my correspondence with my German email friends.
I have an extensive vocabuary of verbs and their tenses; however, I am learning many new verbs and vocabulary in general from the Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses book.
I highly recommend buying this book if you want to be fluent in German, you won't be sorry.
Summary: Great information and drills but definitely not for beginners.
Rating: 2
I picked this book up without looking closely enough at the actual exercises, of which there are many. I should have noticed that they actually require a fairly advanced German Vocabulary to even complete the simplest of drills. This was noticeable even at the very first set of exercises.
If you are somewhat advanced in your German vocabulary though, this may be very helpful as there are very many drills and exercises that follow the explanations of usage. It's just really not something a beginning German student would be able to use as its just too frustrating to complete the drill/exercises when you don't really understand what the words mean. A beginner would just require too much time spent using a dictionary.
If you're a beginner I would suggest a grammar book that offers a more balanced presentation of information; one that starts the student at the beginning and requires little, if any, prior knowledge of German.
I should probably condition my rating as being '2 stars' if your a beginner and '4 stars' if your advanced enough in your overall German to be able to understand the exercises.
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