This comprehensive guide to mastering the German language presents often difficult-to-master information, such as verb tenses, in the approachable "Complete Idiot's Guide(R)" format.

Readers will discover useful travel-themed chapters, dealing with everything from shopping, renting cars, and making a phone call, to visiting a doctor, going to the post office, and banking. With information on the essentials of German grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and conversation, this new edition also includes a supplemental CD with nearly an hour of listen-and-learn exercises that can be used either with or without the book.

Author Biography

Alicia Muller studied German at New York University's prestigious Deutsches Schule and at the Berlitz School of Languages. She is a professional writer, researcher, translator, and copyeditor who speaks five languages fluently.

Stephan Muller is a native born German speaker and has been a tutor of the German language for more than 18 years.

Lisa Graham has been a professor of German and linguistics at Washington College and taught at The Boston Language Institute and Pennsylvania State University. She has published several papers on German and English linguistics.