MENSCHEN A1.1 Kb+DVD-ROM (alum.) Paperback – January 1, 1900

The book is of a high quality, well printed, colorful. The seller has shipped it promptly and it has been delivered ahead of time.

This book is designed to work with a German teacher (not for self study). It is well structured and you really learn to speak and use the language with this book. Great material!

I'm an adult learner of German and I'm doing it just for fun. My teacher recommended this text to me (as well as the workbook, but it hasn't arrived yet). I'm just starting out with it and wanted to share important information: the DVD doesn't work with my Mac! But all the materials are available for free download at the publisher's site and the info for this is located on page 9. I was able to download them easily and save them for listening in iTunes. It took me a little while to figure out how the audio corresponds to the written text; the little yellow box next to each individual unit (there are 11 such units in chapter 1) corresponds to an mp3 file. The audio is a little confusing at first because it is much more than just a simple reading of the lesson, and you must listen carefully to see what information you need to know to do the workbook exercises! But it is not so hard to figure out and I soon understood how it all fits together. I see that others have found the way the audio and text go together to be a bit confusing, which is why I'm explaining it here. It just takes a little patience! I think this is going to be a great learning tool for me and I'm eager to get deeper into the materials. I'm rating it 4 stars though I really need to work with it more to give an accurate review. The 4 stars are a sort of anticipated level of satisfaction.

Ordered this book and an exercise companion book on the request of my German language class teacher. Arived fairly quickly and well packed but they are useless! Everything in them is written only in German and there is no way to understand how to perform exercises or learn from them. There is no English help or assistance of any kind. Audio tracks on CD are confusing as they don't match the text. Hueber website is also not much of help (all in German) and link given at the beginnig of the book along with access code doesn't work.The whole experience reviewing my books and trying to find the way to brake this Enigma code ended up with nothing more than frustration! This is not the way I imagined learning foreign language! Books are well made with lots of pictures but if begginer student can read instructions and follw them to perform exercises than he doesn't need books for beginners!It is unclear who these books are aimed at as it is obvious that knowledge of German language is needed to use them!Don't recommend them for beginners and advanced level students obviously don't need them.It will remain mystery what publishers were thinking...

It arrived without the CD material