Behind The Wheel German For Your Car /6 One Hour Audiocassette Tapes /Complete Listening Guide and Tapescript (Behind the Wheel)
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At last a taped German course which requires no reading and which teaches you to actually speak German in a minimum of time and effort. Designed by the experts at Language Dynamics, 'Behind The Wheel German For Your Car' takes the learner form basic to intermediate level German without the guesswork and pain usually associated with language learning. An expert English speaking instructor talks you through these tapes in English while a trained professional native German speaker teaches you German the way it is really spoken.
'Behind The Wheel German For Your Car' is the ideal way to learn German while you drive because there is no confusion, no reading, no looking up meanings, and no guessing. It's all on the tapes. Use your commute time to effectively learn German with this delightful course whose method will have you speaking your first words in German within minutes of receiving your course, and enjoying it.
Customer Review: Nice idea but a lot of important errors
I really like the approach this person has toward learning a lanugage, as it often mimicks how we try to speak when we get to a foreign country. You think, "How do you say, 'Where is the bathroom,'" then translate it in your head, and then say the proper translation. At least that's how it goes very early on in language learning and practice. This learning approach is really useful for learning through repetition some very useful phrases.
The problem is that, like someone else said in one of these reviews, there are a *lot* of mistakes, which I only found out after having tried a more sophisticated (and expensive) learning program. "Ich mochte tanzen" is not "I like to dance," but "I would like to dance," and there is a big difference! Telling everyone what you generally like to do is not the same as saying what you want to do right now, and could lead to a lot of confusion to German listeners. There are several other errors too, but that's an example of a big one because it comes up a lot on the CD.
You can also tell that the CDs were produced very quickly. But I don't mind the low production value, especially because the series is so cheap, but I do care about accuracy. Inaccuracy is a really bad flaw. I wish there was a CD out there with the same learning format, but that you can trust!
Customer Review: A change of pace...
I have been studying German for a long time, and bought this tape series in the hope that it would go beyond the basic vocabulary and sentence structure and help me practice conversational German. I was both pleased and disappointed with the tapes. I was disappointed in that there wasn't any kind of introduction on the tapes (I haven't looked at the printed booklet) to let the learner know what to expect, and I don't care for the way most words and sentences are repeated twice in English and then twice in German. The tapes seemed somewhat random in structure, since there wasn't an introduction that discussed how the material would progress, and a lot of sections were repeated. The repetition is good for learning, but in places, the material that was repeated seemed not particularly useful. On the positive side, I really liked the emphasis on learning, and repeating, the modal verbs (können, möchten, werden, wollen) and their conjugations, since I have never really learned those well.
I like the conversational tone of the tapes, but it might be grating to some people. It would be nice if the narrator had a better understanding of German pronunciation. The native German speaker who gives us all the words in German is great, but the American narrating the tapes makes a few pronunciation mistakes that are not corrected, and that bothered me a bit.
I am glad that I bought the tape series, since it concentrates on different vocabulary than a lot of the other tapes I have, and it definitely is helping me with those modal verbs. However, I was really hoping that it would be a more intermediate/advanced German series than one geared to beginners.