Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0820423246, Paperback)

German Quickly is a thorough, straightforward textbook with a sense of fun. It teaches the fundamentals for reading German literary and scholarly texts of all levels and difficulty. It can be used as an introductory text for students with no background in German, or as a reference text for students wishing to review German. The grammar explanations are detailed and clear, and the accompanying reading selections, including proverbs and aphorisms, are fun to translate. There are also many informative appendices, including a summary of German grammar, a humanities vocabulary, and a list of German proper names.