German for reading
Subtitle: a programmed approach
By: Karl C. Sandberg, Macalester College ; John R. Wendel, University of Arizona
Contributors: Wendel, John R., author
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Focus, an imprint of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Indianapolis, Indiana
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781585107452; 9781585107469
Subjects: Programmed instruction; German language; Grammar; Readers; Textbooks for foreign speakers; English
Description: "German for Reading presupposes no previous acquiantance with German and can be used with equal effectiveness by graduate students in the arts and sciences who are preparing to pass a reading knowledge examination, or by undergraduates who are beginning to deal seriously with the problems of reading. Its programmed format permits it to be used either as a classroom text or by individuals working on their own. The second edition builds on strengths of the first while updating outdated terminology, removing terms and phrases no longer in use, and incorporating many revisions made in light of suggestions from readers" -- From back cover.
Notes: "A Focus Book" -- Title page verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: To the student; title: Acknowledgments; title: Cognates; title: definition; title: Nouns; title: recognition, gender, and cognate patterns; title: Nouns; title: formation of the plural forms; title: Compound nouns; title: Cognates; title: partially similar meanings; title: False cognates; title: Verbs; title: cognates; title: Verbs; title: partial and false cognates; title: Present tense verb endings; personal pronouns; title: Es gibt, es ist, es sind; title: Reading: Die geographie Deutschlands; title: Word order; title: basic structure of German sentences; title: Future tense; title: werden; title: Adjectives; title: cognates, agreement, comparison; title: Adverbs; title: Reading: Andere deutschsprachige Länder; title: Case of the noun; title: Past tense of weak verbs; title: Past tense of haben, sein and werden; title: Reading: Deutsche Kultur; title: Prepositions; title: genitive case; title: Prepositions; title: dative case; title: Prepositions; title: accusative case; title: Prepositions; title: dative/accusative; title: Infinitival phrases; title: Reading: Deutschland gestern, heute und morgen; title: Personal pronouns; title: declension; title: Modal auxiliary verbs; title: present tense; title: Modals; title: idiomatic meanings; title: Wissen, kennen; title: Reading: From Franz Kafka: Hochzeisvorbereitungen auf dem Lande ; From Friedrich Nietzsche: Der Antichrist; title: Comparison of adjectives; title: Comparison of adverbs; title: Adjectives used as nouns; title: Uses of man; title: Reading: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Widerstand un ergebung; title: Interrogative and relative pronouns wer and was; title: The interrogatives wann, warum, wie, wo, welch-, and was für ein; title: Separable verb prefixes; title: Inseparable verb prefixes; title: meanings; title: Reading: Sigmund Freud: Das Unbehagen in der Kultur; From Heinrich Heine: Gedanken und Einfälle; title: Past tense of strong verbs and werden; title: Past tense of modals and wissen; title: Reading: From Karl Marx: Das Kapital; title: Coordinating conjunctions; title: Subordinating conjunctions; title: Reading: From Freidrich Engels: Die lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England (1845); title: Past tense of irregular weak verbs; title: conjugation; title: The genitive case; title: review; title: Reading: From Otto von Bismarck: Aus Erklärungen in der budgetkommission; Aus einer reichstagsrede; title: Relative pronouns der and welcher; title: declension and usage; title: Welcher, welche, welches as relative pronouns; title: Wer, was, and wo used as relatives; title: Da- and wo- compounds; title: Reading: From Max Weber: Die Erbschaft Bismarcks; title: Past participles; title: recognition; title: The present perfect tense; title: recognition, meaning, and word order; title: The past perfect tense; title: recognition and meaning; title: Modals; title: past participles, conjugation in the present perfect and past perfect tenses; title: Reading: From Oswald Spengler: Jahre der Entscheidung Gedanken; title: Double infinitive construction; title: Reflexive verbs and pronouns; title: The intensive pronouns selbst and selber; title: Special uses of the dative; title: Reading: From Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf; From Erich Kästner: Das Führerproblem genetisch betrachtet; title: Der words s; title: Der as a demonstrative pronoun; title: Other demonstratives; title: Reading: From Albert Schweitzer: Zwischen Wasser und Urwald; title: Possessive adjectives; title: Possessives used as predicate adjectives or as pronouns; title: Reading: From Erich Maria Remarque: Im Westen nichts Neues; title: Indefinite pronouns and adjectives; title: Special uses of the genitive; title: Reading: From Karl Jaspers: Die atombombe und die Zukunft des menschen; title: Modified participial constructions; title: Absolute participial constructions; title: Reading: From Albert Schweitzer: Die Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben; title: The future tense; title: conjugation, word order, modals; title: The future perfect tense; title: conjugation, word order; title: Reading: From Wenher von Braun: Erste Fahrt zum Mond; title: Passive voice; title: Use of modals in the passive; title: The impersonal passive; title: Constructions translated by an English passive; title: The apparent or statal passive; title: Reading: From Carl Gustav Jung: Ein moderner Mythus; title: The subjunctive; title: definition of the subjunctive mood and the formation of the present tense verb forms; title: The subjunctive; title: formation of the past tense verb forms of strong, weak, and irregular verbs; title: The present and past tense verb forms of the modals and the verbs wissen, haben, sein, and werden; title: The subjunctive; title: formation of the compound tenses; title: Reading: From Heinrich Heine: Zur Geschichte der Religion und philosophie in Deutschland; From Immanuel Kant: Was ist aufklärung?; title: The subjunctive; title: present time; title: The subjunctive; title: past time; title: Reading from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; title: Subjunctive statements with the modals; title: Indirect discourse; title: definition, meaning; title: Modals in indirect discourse; title: active and passive voice; title: Reading: From Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Der Rosenkavalier; title: Additional uses of the subjunctive; title: Imperative forms; title: The uses of werden; title: Reading: From Rudolf Walter Leonhardt: X-mal Deutschland; title: Appendices. Glossary of grammatical terms; title: Pronunciation guide; title: Numerals; title: Vocabulary; title: Index.