It's Already Your Second Language 1 --
Where German Came From 2 --
Many People Speak German 6 --
Vocabulary You Already Have 8 --
Cognates in Context 10 --
German Pronunciation 11 --
Speak, Speak, Speak! 12 --
Pronouncing the Consonants 16 --
Letter Combinations 18 --
Practicing Your Pronunciation 20 --
Countries and Nationalities 30 --
Understanding Gender 36 --
Exceptions to the Gender Patterns 42 --
Forming Plurals and Using Pronouns 47 --
Plural of Masculine Nouns 48 --
Feminine Nouns in the Plural 50 --
Making Neuter Nouns Plural 50 --
Using du, ihr, and Sie 54 --
Describe That Noun! 55 --
Coming and Going: Using Verbs 59 --
Verbs of Motion: Going Somewhere 62 --
Essentials for Life: Eating and Drinking 64 --
Bitten: A Very Versatile Verb 67 --
Du versus Sie Again 68 --
Negation with "Not" and "Not Any" 69 --
Deutschland liegt im Zentrum Europas 71 --
Expressing Like with haben 74 --
Stem Changes in the Present Tense 77 --
Many Uses of werden 79 --
Jobs and Professions 80 --
Income, Outcome, Welcome: Prefixes with Verbs 81 --
Prefixes with Verbs of Motion 85 --
"I Have a Book": Direct Objects and the Accusative Case 87 --
Direct Objects Aren't Scary at All 88 --
English Direct Object 88 --
German Direct Object 89 --
Nominative and Accusative 90 --
Using Adjectives with Direct Objects 92 --
Prepositions That Take the Accusative 93 --
Other Useful Idioms 95 --
Members of Your Family 96 --
Giving Them the Book: Indirect Objects and the Dative Case 99 --
Indirect Objects in German 100 --
Changing Dative Nouns to Pronouns 102 --
Sentences Can Be Chock Full of Pronouns! 103 --
Prepositions That Take the Dative Case 105 --
Another Use of the Dative Case 105 --
Three Types of Questions 110 --
Placing a Verb First 110 --
Interrogative Words 111 --
Asking How and When 113 --
Other Cases of wer 116 --
Rest of the Numbers 124 --
Street Addresses and Phone Numbers 127 --
Expressing Quantities 128 --
Measuring the Metric Way 129 --
How about Fractions? 132 --
Meet Europe's New Currency 134 --
Asking for the Time 140 --
Seasons of the Year 142 --
Herzlichen Gluckwunsch zum Geburtstag! 143 --
Case of Adjectives 144 --
Using Ordinals to Give Dates 145 --
Activities in Germany 146 --
Talking about the Past 149 --
Regular Past Tense 150 --
Forming Questions in the Past Tense 151 --
Past Tense of Irregular Verbs 152 --
Importance of Being 157 --
A Special Look at haben and werden 158 --
It's Raining Cats and Dogs! 158 --
Look to the Future 161 --
What Are You Doing Tomorrow? 162 --
Present, Past, and Future 164 --
Future Tense with Irregular Verbs 165 --
Kaiser Gives the Orders 165 --
Modern Technology in German 169 --
Present Perfect Tense with haben 172 --
Oh, Those Darned Irregularities! 174 --
Verbs That Use sein with Participles 176 --
Past Perfect Tense 179 --
Future Perfect Tense 181 --
Should I or Shouldn't I? 185 --
What Is a Modal Auxiliary? 186 --
Modals in the Past 188 --
Forming the Present Perfect Tense 191 --
Another Look at Inseparable Prefixes 194 --
Revisiting the Separable Prefixes 195 --
What's Mine Is Yours 199 --
What Belongs to You and Me 200 --
Rest of the Possessive Adjectives 200 --
More Uses of the Genitive 205 --
Parts of Your Body 206 --
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 209 --
Antonyms and Other Words of Contrast 210 --
Der Words and ein Words 211 --
Some Special Nouns 214 --
Making Comparisons 215 --
Good ... Better ... Best 219 --
Ifs, Ands, and Buts 223 --
Und, oder, aber, and denn 224 --
Conjunctions That Affect Word Order 225 --
Interrogatives Used as Conjunctions 226 --
More Than Just der, die, and das 228 --
A New Kind of Preposition 230 --
German Is Spoken Here 233 --
Don't Be Passive about the Passive Voice! 234 --
Forming the Passive Voice in German 235 --
Using von, durch, and mit 236 --
Is It Passive or Is It an Adjective? 236 --
Talking about the Subjunctive 239 --
Would That It Were Not So 240 --
He Said ... She Said ... 242 --
Past Tense of the Subjunctive Mood 244 --
And One More Use for wenn! 247 --
Appendix B English-to-German Dictionary 259 --
Appendix C German-to-English Dictionary 275 --
Appendix D Principal Parts of Irregular and Strong Verbs 291.
