$25 off CD version, Levels 1 and 2!
This is a two level course designed to give students a command of spoken German. It lays a solid foundation for comprehensive language skills, and provides systematically for the development of reading proficiency based on oral skills. The text is the end product of several years of work and has benefited from the labors of many members of the FSI staff. Level 1 covers Units 1-6 and comes with 12 CDs and text; Level 2 covers Units 7-12 with 9 CDs and text, and Level 3 covers Units 13-25 with 21 CDs and text. And now we have FSI German 1 in a Digital Edition CD-ROM, featuring audio in MP3 format and text in PDF!
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Planned in two volumes, the German Basic Course was designed to help students reach a level of proficiency which will enable them to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations. The dialogues, drills, situations and narrations have been recorded on audio unless otherwise indicated in the text.
For beginning students, the twenty-four units are designed for a six-month intensive training program of six hours of work per day, plus outside preparation. Each unit presents a situational topic introduced in a dialogue, and usually five grammar points. Each grammar point is preceded by grammar notes which generally are expressed in non-technical terms.
Most units include materials of the following kinds: