Chapter 1 – Deductive Reasoning; German alphabet and pronunciation; cognates Chapter 2 – Fundamental German and English grammar concepts; German sentence structure Chapter 3 – German genders; plurals in German; separable verbs; how to identify verbs Chapter 4 – Modal verbs; imperative forms; idiomatic expressions with es Chapter 5 - The German case system; negation Chapter 6 – The past tense forms Chapter 7 – Adjectives and adverbs; comparative and superlative; als and wie Chapter 8 - Subordinate and relative clauses; commas; present participles Chapter 9 – Werden and its different uses; passive voice; future and future perfect Chapter 10 – Personal pronouns; reflexive pronouns; appositions and phrases Chapter 11 – Prepositions; pronominal phrases; other uses of pronouns; word formation of nouns Chapter 12 – Subjunctive I; reported speech Chapter 13 – Subjunctive II; conditional sentences Chapter 14 – Extended participial phrases Chapter 15 – Ersatzpassiv constructions and other fake passive constructions Chapter 16 – Strategies for dealing with longer and older texts Additional practice texts
Biography
Alexander Burdumy is Director of the International Center at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences.
