German: How to Speak and Write It (Beginners' Guides)

I thought it was completely not good, and think that for me, personally, this method of learning is unhelpful and counterproductive. As an ESL teacher, I would not teach english in this way. It is a confused, unorganized barrage of unnecessary (for beginner speakers) vocabulary from the beginning. The core vocabulary that should be taught at the start is not included until later, and even then isn't well organized.

I found it a little hard to grasp the different sounds,
it has a lot of good grammer lessons.Instant Immersion
was a better buy for me.

I just reviewed the "look inside" place of German: How to speak and Write It. The front cover is updated, yet the material inside is the same as when it was first published. I would recommend this book as a supplement to the Rosettastone German course and to a regular college course in German. Even though the pictures are out of date, it still is a good refresher course in German. One example of this book being out of date is no referrences to the computer or modern cell phone.

As a German tutor and native speaker, I really appreciate the way this book is set up and systematically builds one lesson on the next. In the exercises, it reviews information learned in the last few chapters.
In my opinion, the only little draw back (and the reason that I did not give 5 stars) is that it would need some updating as far as some of the pictures and words are concerned. It is quite uncommon in modern German to use terms like "der Knabe" or "das Fräulein Lessing".

Other than that, I am completely happy with this purchase and would definitely recommend it to any beginning learner.

I purchased this recently as i just got a whim to learn the german language...basically as a "hobby". My family roots come from there and i just wanted to get familiar with this language. I know that they say it is one of the hardest to learn but i have plenty of time and in no hurry. It explains it well and how to say it with nice exercises at the end of each lesson. I am not all the way thru but i would suggest this book as a good starting foundation for teaching yourself. The only knock i would have against this book is that it doesnt come with an accompanying CD ;) highly recommend.