Now it is a known and often unavoidable instruction scenario that college and university students enrolled in intermediate and advanced German language (and by extension German literature) courses often and even usually present much variety of grammar and writing skill levels (from major grammatical shortcomings to near fluency), but that there is generally only limited class time available for specific and targeted grammar reviews (and also, considering the variance of skill levels, any such in-class grammar reviews often tend to not go far enough for those with limited grammar skills whilst at the same time being potentially monotonous and frustrating for those students who are basically or nearly fluent with regard to their oral and written German language skills). But that all having been said, the lack of a similar type of extensive/intensive grammar analysis manual for beginning, novice level German students is actually a major and personal academic frustration to and for me, since beginning level German language students also more often than not would both need and actually likely much appreciate a concise and geared to their level of language acumen and expertise presentation and description of the German language's not always all that easily comprehended and internalised grammar points and rules (and while my personal go-to suggestion for novice students, English Grammar for Students of German, is a decent and solid enough offering, it is also and sadly by no means either as extensive or as intensive as A Practical Review of German Grammar). And although the grammar analyses are presented in a clear and concise, easily understood manner, A Practical Review of German Grammar is nevertheless still not really a suitable reference guide for novice and elementary German language learners, since it does assume at least some basic language fluency and/or previous instruction (for especially the above mentioned exercises and examples are generally not basic level). And although the grammar analyses are presented in a c In my humble opinion one of the absolute best German grammar reviews on the market, Gerda Dippmann's and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp's A Practical Review of German Grammar is conceptualised for intermediate and advanced German language college and university students whose mother tongue, whose first language is English (hence the grammar rules and explanations are ALL presented only in English, but with German examples and exercises, of course). In my humble opinion one of the absolute best German grammar reviews on the market, Gerda Dippmann's and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp's A Practical Review of German Grammar is conceptualised for intermediate and advanced German language college and university students whose mother tongue, whose first language is English (hence the grammar rules and explanations are ALL presented only in English, but with German examples and exercises, of course).
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