I want to Learn German, suggestions for a CD/book please?

mariannemarlow

Hello

I am interested in learning German.

Anyone out there know of a good audio CD/Book website discount etc?

any advice appreciated.

thanks you lovely people

marianne

Mr_Pink_3

Hi,

I would recommend Michel Thomas CDs - the 8 CD course will be a great foundation course. There are also 'bolt on' CD courses after that for building vocab and advanced verb use.

As for price I think the 8 CD set is £70 on amazon, but there is always loads on Ebay at far better prices.

Listening to these CDs on an mp3 player or during a car journey when you are alone can be surprisingly productive.

The other CDs I'd go for would be the Pimsleur courses, very much the same principle but a more extensive (and expensive) set of courses.

Viel Glueck!

mariannemarlow

guten Tag

danke

innovate

Guten Abend, Marianne! Or should I say Guten Morgen, it's almost 3 o'clock in the morning now!

There's another thread here with viele gute suggestions :cool: (I make no apologies for any misspellings, not this time of night, anyway)

mariannemarlow

Brilliant I shall look at this when I get home. Thanks ever so much!

Marianne

albalad

Mr_Pink wrote:

Hi,

I would recommend Michel Thomas CDs - the 8 CD course will be a great foundation course. There are also 'bolt on' CD courses after that for building vocab and advanced verb use.
As for price I think the 8 CD set is £70 on amazon, but there is always loads on Ebay at far better prices.
Viel Glueck!

i would second this opinion , michel thomas courses seem really easy , we too are learning german using his cd's in the car........ but we bought them from Costco for £29 inc Vat .... a real bargain.......... do you have a costco near you ?

mariannemarlow

albalad wrote:

i would second this opinion , michel thomas courses seem really easy , we too are learning german using his cd's in the car........ but we bought them from Costco for £29 inc Vat .... a real bargain.......... do you have a costco near you ?

i will definitely consider the michel thomas ones for the future.

i have never heard of costco, so i am guessing not!

Party_Animal

Michel Thomas every time for me and some good deals on E Bay. I just play them in the car. You don't need to work at it.

dickie_engine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/index.shtml

The BBC does free language courses, which are pretty good, especially for getting started.

Lots of MP3 downloads and stuff to listen to

I'll declare an interest, that I work for the beeb, but I still think it's a pretty decent site.

mariannemarlow

oh wow, thanks for that. the good old beeb.