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Thousands of years ago seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic anthropological and historical research Sanders presents a brilliant...

How often have you looked up an English word in a German dictionary only to be confronted by a bewildering array of German equivalents? Which is the correct word for the context in question? Thirty years' experience in teaching Germanic languages at tertiary level to English-speaking students have...

Perfect for German revision offering beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to German verbs. The main section of the book consists of 200 fully conjugated verbs, regular and irregular, weak and strong. Each is self-contained, showing all the major tenses, clearly set out with pronouns. The...

Go Beyond Conjugation and Learn the Correct Verb Tenses for Speaking and Writing in German If you're looking for help memorizing German verb conjugations, any German verb book will do. But if you are interested in becoming fl uent, you'll need to learn how these building blocks are used in everyday,...

German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history...

Teaching your child German can be fun and easy! With engaging pictures your child will enjoy mastering the German words for 27 different toys and games! The first section, "Learn Toys & Games in German" has everything you need to teach your child German toys & games, including: -...

Teaching your child German can be fun and easy! With engaging pictures, these flash cards will let your child enjoy mastering German words for different parts of the body! The first section, "Learn Parts of the Body in German" has everything you need to teach your child German parts of the...

In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial...

Teaching your child German can be fun and easy!  With engaging animal pictures your child will enjoy mastering German animal names! The first section, "Learn Animals in German" has everything you need to teach your child German animals, including: - The English word - A large picture...

Learn to speak and write German like a pro! Need a quick introduction to the German language? Whether you're planning a vacation, adding a valuable second language to your resume, or simply brushing up on your skills, The Everything Essential German Book is your perfect guide for learning to...

Teaching your child German can be fun and easy! With engaging pictures, these flash cards will let your child enjoy mastering German words for clothes, shoes, hats, jewelry and more! The first section, "Learn Clothes & More in German" has everything you need to teach your child German...

Now in a celebratory fiftieth anniversary edition, The German Cookbook is the definitive authority on German cuisine, from delicious soups and entrees to breads, desserts, and the greatest baking specialties in the world. In addition to easy-to-follow recipes, renowned food writer Mimi Sheraton also...

Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to 'dealing with the German past.' There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling,...

This book contains: * includes vocabulary with difficult and important words translated to English * ready for on-demand translation * includes exercises for comprehension training * hand-drawn illustrations by the author From the introduction: In German, detective stories are...