| Top Ten Reasons to Learn German |
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| Introduction |
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It's Already Your Second Language |
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2 | (3) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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6 | (2) |
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The Vocabulary You Already Have |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (2) |
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11 | (10) |
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12 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (2) |
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Pronouncing the Consonants |
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15 | (2) |
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17 | (2) |
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Practicing Your Pronunciation |
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19 | (2) |
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Getting Started with the Basics |
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21 | (12) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (2) |
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Countries and Nationalities |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (3) |
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33 | (12) |
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34 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (2) |
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38 | (1) |
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Exceptions to the Gender Patterns |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (3) |
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Forming Plurals and Using Pronouns |
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45 | (12) |
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46 | (1) |
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The Plural of Masculine Nouns |
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46 | (2) |
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The Plural of Feminine Nouns |
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48 | (1) |
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The Plural of Neuter Nouns |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (3) |
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Time for Action: Using Verbs |
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57 | (14) |
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58 | (1) |
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58 | (3) |
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Verbs of Motion: Coming and Going |
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61 | (2) |
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Essentials for Life: Eating and Drinking |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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Bitten: A Very Versatile Verb |
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65 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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Negation with ``Not'' and ``Not Any'' |
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66 | (2) |
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Deutschland liegt im Zentrum Europas |
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68 | (3) |
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71 | (14) |
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72 | (1) |
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Expressing Affection with haben |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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Stem Changes in the Present Tense |
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74 | (3) |
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77 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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Having Respect for Prefixes |
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78 | (4) |
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Prefixes with Verbs of Motion |
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82 | (3) |
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``I Have a Book'': Direct Objects and the Accusative Case |
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Direct Objects Aren't Scary at All |
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86 | (1) |
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The English Direct Object |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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Nominative and Accusative |
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87 | (3) |
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Using Adjectives with Direct Objects |
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90 | (1) |
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Prepositions that Take the Accusative |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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The Members of Your Family |
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95 | (2) |
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Giving Them the Book: Indirect Objects and the Dative Case |
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What's an Indirect Object? |
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98 | (1) |
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Indirect Objects in German |
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98 | (1) |
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Changing Dative Nouns to Pronouns |
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99 | (2) |
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Sentences Can Be Chock Full of Pronouns! |
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101 | (1) |
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Prepositions That Take the Dative Case |
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102 | (1) |
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Another Use of the Dative Case |
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103 | (2) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (12) |
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The Three Types of Questions |
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108 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (1) |
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114 | (3) |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (16) |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (3) |
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Street Addresses and Phone Numbers |
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125 | (3) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (2) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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133 | (2) |
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135 | (14) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (2) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (2) |
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142 | (1) |
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Herzlichen Gluckwunsch zum Geburtstag! |
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143 | (2) |
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Adjectives and the Accusative Case |
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145 | (1) |
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Using Ordinals to Give Dates |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (2) |
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149 | (10) |
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150 | (2) |
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Forming Questions in the Past Tense |
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152 | (1) |
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The Past Tense of Irregular Verbs |
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152 | (4) |
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156 | (1) |
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A Special Look at haben and werden |
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157 | (1) |
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It's Raining Cats and Dogs! |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (12) |
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What are You Doing Tomorrow? |
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160 | (1) |
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160 | (2) |
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Present, Past, and Future |
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162 | (1) |
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Future Tense with Irregular Verbs |
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163 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (3) |
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Modern Technology in German |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (3) |
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171 | (16) |
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The Present Perfect Tense with haben |
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172 | (2) |
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Oh, Those Darned Irregularities! |
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174 | (2) |
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Verbs That Use sein with Participles |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (3) |
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182 | (3) |
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The Spoken Past Versus the Written Past |
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185 | (2) |
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187 | (14) |
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What is a Modal Auxiliary? |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (3) |
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Forming the Present Perfect Tense |
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193 | (2) |
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195 | (1) |
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Another Look at Inseparable Prefixes |
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196 | (1) |
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Revisiting the Separable Prefixes |
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197 | (4) |
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201 | (10) |
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What Belongs to You and Me |
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202 | (1) |
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The Rest of the Possessive Adjectives |
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202 | (3) |
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205 | (2) |
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More Uses of the Genitive |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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208 | (3) |
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
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211 | (14) |
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Antonyms and Other Words of Contrast |
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212 | (2) |
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214 | (2) |
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216 | (2) |
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218 | (3) |
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221 | (4) |
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225 | (10) |
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Und, oder, aber, and denn |
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226 | (1) |
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Conjunctions That Affect Word Order |
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227 | (1) |
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Interrogatives Used as Conjunctions |
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228 | (2) |
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More Than Just der, die, and das |
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230 | (1) |
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A New Kind of Preposition |
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231 | (4) |
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235 | (8) |
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Don't Be Passive about the Passive Voice! |
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236 | (1) |
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Forming the Passive Voice in German |
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237 | (1) |
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Using von, durch, and mit |
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238 | (1) |
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Is It Passive or is It an Adjective? |
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239 | (4) |
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Talking about the Subjunctive |
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243 | (12) |
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Would That It Were Not So |
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244 | (1) |
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The Ones That Cling to Life |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (2) |
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The Past Tense of the Subjunctive Mood |
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248 | (4) |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (2) |
| Appendix A: Answer Key |
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255 | (7) |
| Appendix B: English-to-German Dictionary |
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262 | (9) |
| Appendix C: German-to-English Dictionary |
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| Appendix D: Principal Parts of Irregular and Strong Verbs |
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280 | (2) |
| Appendix E: Verb Conjugation Tables |
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282 | (6) |
| Index |
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