Complete German: A Teach Yourself Program (Teach Yourself Language) 1st Edition

Really good place to start especially if there are no classes around you

I didn't know a word in German, today I have quite a solid basis to go further into the language.I didn't know "Teach Yourself" either, I had never heard of it, but while making a research I found some good reviews on it on websites talking about self-learning methods.So, I got myself this pack and I completely fell in love with it! I loved to see how I was making progress day after day.Sometimes I found its pace a little too fast, but it's not a problem at all.There's good balance between listening, reading, grammar, exercises and so on...! And everything seems so well thought, it's very precise!But, I do think this course is just a beginning, one has to get immerse in the language learning process, and find other sources to practice what you learn and to learn more in different ways. But I am sure: Teach Yourself is a great beginning!Now I am anxious to learning French, Italian and Russian! See you Teach Yourself in a near future! Thanks! ;)

I wish I could compare this book to the pre-2010 editions, but this is my first time using Teach Yourself.From what I've seen on other polyglots' videos, the German Teach Yourself books have gone through some major facelift in 2010, and the 2013 edition has inherited the paper quality, colors and pictures. Personally, those are no more than frills - all these pictures take up space and add nothing to the content. However, by comparing to a video review I saw from the 2010 edition, I could see that they removed the full-page pictures, which is a "step back in the right direction", and either added content to those pages (tips about the culture) or, less likely, just reorganized the content. I'm looking forward for other opinions on this, as I don't have another edition at hand.Now, Amazon advertises it as if it came with two Audio CDs, but it comes in fact with a single MP3 CD. Not a problem at all in my opinion, but it should be advertised accordingly - the box comes with the correct information.Regarding the method itself, I like it so far. It doesn't try to take you by the hand and explain everything, and you often come across phrases that aren't explained in the book, but that you can infer meaning.So far, I can easily recommend this. I just wish they got rid of all the useless pictures.

Good book for beginners and false beginners.

The Complete German book was very informative and thorough, just as every other teach yourself book I bought. The dialogues are engaging and the online audio is a big help to comprehend spoken German. I love the overall setup of this book and would highly recommend it to anyone wanted to learn German whom has little time to study for large portions every week. Just 10 minutes a day makes a big difference!

The book is very small, I felt mislead by the face picture.I am starting the book today and later I will come back to give more feedback about it.

Excellent starting point to learn German.

The book is almost useless without the audio files but the audio files cannot be downloaded through the app store on a laptop or iPhone or streamed online. I feel ripped off.