jhschool Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Hello I would like to find a good German textbook for high school level beginner student. The student has experience with other languages and is very familiar with cases. The student also likes grammar. I really like the BJU French and the BJU Spanish because they get difficult fairly quickly and have lots (and lots) of drills. (Their readings are not very interesting, but I supplement). They don't have German. Could you please recommend a good German textbook with lots of grammar? Also could you recommend an interesting easy readings book? (I have lots of little kids' books but they are not very exciting for a high school student.) Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca VA Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 My daughter used German is Fun, Book 1 in her German 1 class this past year: http://www.amazon.com/German-Is-Fun-Book-One/dp/0877205809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371920872&sr=8-1&keywords=german+is+fun+book+1 The only negative thing I can say about it is that the book doesn't give a vocabulary list for each chapter. You sort of have to make your own list. Other than that, the book is well-regarded in the high school world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
at the beach Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 My daughter takes German with Rolling Acres online. They use a textbook called German Made Simple by Arnold Leitner for the first two years of German (but there are other things added to the course like weekly compositions, prayers memorized, etc). It is a great book and covers a lot of material. It is not busy, and at first it appeared deceptively simple to me. All the answers to the exercises are in the back of the book. Rolling Acres also adds in a book called German Grammar Drills. As for German readers, we purchased some German fairy tale books. We got everything from Amazon. HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Our local ps actually has an excellent German program, and I believe they use the Komm mit! series of texts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhschool Posted June 23, 2013 Author Share Posted June 23, 2013 Thank you very much! This is very helpful! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhschool Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 I found German Is Fun, German Grammar Drills, and German Made Simple at amazon. I haven't found Komm Mit yet. Thank you for all the suggestions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 I haven't found Komm Mit yet. Here's Level 1 on Amazon - I think there are 3 levels altogether. It's a Holt textbook. Looks like they also have a TE, grammar book, beginning reader, audio CD, practice book, interactive CD-ROM teacher if you want any or all of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 I haven't found Komm Mit yet. This is the publisher links http://holtmcdougal.hmhco.com/hm/series.htm?level2Code=MSIB10015&level3Code=4_GR Level 1 student resource http://go.hrw.com/hrw.nd/gohrw_rls1/pKeywordResults?keyword=wl%20german%20l1 Scope and sequence info http://go.hrw.com/hrw.nd/gohrw_rls1/pKeywordResults?mkm0%20ph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhschool Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 Wow, thanks, Matryoshka and Arcadia! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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