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Hey Mathmom!!!We're currently doing "Allemand Pratique de Base". This one is very good for doing in the car beuscae of the structure of each lesson: (1) dialog, (2) repeat selected sentences from the dialog, (3) exercises (the last of which is always translating sentences from French to German). It's great beuscae I can listen over and over, and I learn each unit a little better each time through. This type of repetition and memorization is dull but absolutely critical for building fluency.I also have "Teach Yourself German" -- which is more interesting to read than the other one -- but the recordings are really not adapted for repeated listening in the car. It doesn't have nearly enough listen-and-repeat or simple answer aloud exercises. Instead, it has way too much discussion in English. The worst part is that for every other exercise they have the English lady say "you can use your pause button to give you time to say your answers aloud." Well, not if I'm driving! I'd rather they just leave the appropriate blank space in the recording instead of wasting time having the English lady tell me to pause the recording.I'm glad Eleanor liked the stories and pics on my sister's blog. We look forward to seeing you! :D
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