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USE YOUR COMPUTER TO LISTEN TO THE GERMAN LANGUAGE ON DISC! WITH THE TEXT IN FRONT OF YOU, SENTENCE BY SENTENCE, AT YOUR OWN PACE! LET YOUR COMPUTER CHECK OUT YOUR UNDERSTANDING! |
THE FOLLOWING SIX AUDIO-LINGUAL TRAINING UNITS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
ALL COLLATED TOGETHER ON ONE INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL COMPUTER CD, "TALK GERMAN TODAY!", FOR ONLY:-
AUST$25.00 in Australia / £10 STERLING in the U.K. / NZ$25.00 in New Zealand / CAN$20.00 in Canada / or 15 Euro in the Euro Zone Countries of the European Union / or US$20.00 anywhere else in the world!
Fluency in greeting, making polite
requests, talking about family and making casual conversation are
just a few of the many benefits students can expect to gain from
working their way conscientiously through all six units of the "Talk German Today!"
course. When students have completed the course, they should also
know how to enquire about the way in German, understand
directions received and explain the way to others. They should be
fluent in asking about and expressing prices, and in making other
requests and responses associated with shopping. They should have
gained all the necessary oral language skills to make someone's
acquaintance in German, and to know how to talk about holiday
plans and travel. PLUS MUCH MORE - in terms of mastering the
pronunciation and idiom of modern spoken German! The course will
also help develop the user's ability to write modern German, with
dictation exercises and two-way translation drills.
HOW TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF `TALK
GERMAN TODAY!'
`TALK GERMAN TODAY!' OFFERS FIVE
DIFFERENT AUDIO OPERATING MODES PLUS THREE SILENT OPERATING
MODES.
THE FIVE AUDIO OPERATING MODES (WITH
FULL SOUND) ARE:-
GERMAN SOUND AND TEXT WITH AUTOMATIC
TEXT ADVANCE, GERMAN SOUND AND TEXT WITH KEY-PRESS ADVANCE,
INDIVIDUAL PHRASES OF GERMAN WITHOUT TRANSLATION, INDIVIDUAL
PHRASES OF GERMAN WITH TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH, AND INTERACTIVE
QUESTIONS RELATING TO GERMAN SOUND AND TEXT.
THE THREE SILENT MODES OF OPERATION
AVAILABLE ARE AS FOLLOWS:-
German Text without Sound, Translation into English without
Sound, and German Text with Translation into English without
Sound.
| HOW ALL THE DIFFERENT
OPERATING MODES CAN GET TO WORK HELPING YOU TO BUILD UP YOUR GERMAN |
To begin with, the
INDIVIDUAL SENTENCES WITH TRANSLATION Option offers you the
opportunity of seeing both the German text and the English text
displayed simultaneously while you listen to the reading.
Use this purely to
familiarise yourself with meaning of the sentences: being read
aloud. Once you are familiar with the meaning, dispense with the
simultaneous translation display, and run the program in
AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE Mode.
In AUTOMATIC TEXT
ADVANCE Mode, only the German text will be displayed... Listen to
the German carefully, many times, keeping an eye on the German
text and simply trying to understand as much of the reading as
you possibly can.
If there are still some
sections of the German which you cannot fully understand, keep
selecting the Translated Text Disply Without Sound Mode to review
the translation of the whole passage at your leisure, again and
again, until you feel you understand everything in the written
text.
When you feel your
understanding of the written text is complete, begin to monitor
your ability to follow the spoken German. Do this by selecting
the SOUND WITH MOUSE/KEY-PRESS TEXT ADVANCE Mode.
The SOUND WITH
MOUSE/KEY-PRESS TEXT ADVANCE Mode is essentially an easy-to
operate MANUAL Text Advance Mode. YOU, the user, have to advance
the text display by key-press or mouse click to keep pace with
the sound. Keep on practising this until you are easily able to
advance the text manually in pace with the reading. By the time
you have reached that stage, your aural comprehension will have
reached a sufficient level for you to be able to devote serious
attention to speech practice.
Read UNIT 1 aloud
yourself, phrase by phrase, along with the computerised reading.
When that too becomes easy to you, read the passage aloud in
German without accompanying sound from the computer. To do this,
select the German TEXT DISPLAY WITHOUT SOUND Mode.
When you can handle
this with ease, check yourself out on the INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS
Routine, for UNIT 1. This will deliver a different set of
questions each time you run it. Some of the questions are
designed to check your auditory recognition and understanding of
spoken German, and others aim to check your understanding of
written German. Keep working at the INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS Routine
until you accomplish at least two consecutive runs without
errors.
When you have
thoroughly mastered UNIT 1, use the mouse to select UNIT 2, and
begin the whole process again with UNIT TWO, working with all the
various routines from SOUND WITH AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE right
through to INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS - and carry on in this manner
all the way to UNIT SIX. By the time, you have mastered UNIT SIX,
you will have progressed quite some way into German talking
territory!
AUDIO-TAPE CASSETTE ALSO AVAILABLE AS OPTIONAL EXTRA
The audio-lingual
disc "TALK GERMAN TODAY" is ideal for use in
conjunction with the "Lerne Deutsch Damit! German Supplement Disc", and whilst there are many advantages to
accessing the sound-track of "TALK GERMAN TODAY" on
computer rather than from a tape-recorder - e.g. the ease with
which every individual sentence can be repeated ad lib, and the
ease with which the student can go back to a preceding sentence
-, if you place an order both for the "TALK GERMAN
TODAY!" disc and
for "Lerne Deutsch Damit! German Supplement Disc", we
can also (if you wish) let you have you a tape cassette of the
sound track of "TALK GERMAN TODAY" as part of the
following very advantageous low-price combination offer:-
The fully
inclusive combination pack price for "Talk German
Today", plus
the "Lerne Deutsch Damit! German Supplement Disc", plus
the audio tape cassette, is currently just:-
AUST$60 in Australia / or £24 STERLING in the U.K. / or NZ$60.00 in New Zealand /
or CAN$48.00 in Canada / or 36 EURO in the Euro Zone Countries of the European Union /
or US$48.00 anywhere else in the world.
SUPER-COMBINATION
OFFER
AUST$80.00 in Australia / or CAN$64 in Canada / or NZ$80.00 in New Zealand / or 48 EURO in the Euro Zone Countries of the European Union/ or Sterling £32 (thirty-two English Pounds) / or US$64.00 anywhere else in the world!
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