How to Compare in German
A Guide for Beginners
(If you want to jump straight to what the title promises click here), if you can be a little patient, read on :)
As you may or may not know, I’m a lecturer (I guess, Professor is what our American friends might say) at a university here in Tasmania. I teach German. Things have changed quite a bit since I started a number of years ago. At the beginning I took over a textbook from my predecessor, and it, like most of the textbooks available, was written for North American learners. It was pretty good—I think, it might have been called Neue Horizonte—but the US-American slant was a little too much for some students. Then we used a book designed for foreigners (Ausländer) living in Germany. This was also not ideal, as it turned out, because foreigners living in Germany are surrounded by German all day every day and have an advantage when it comes to learning vocab which my students didn’t have in monolingual Australia. We went through a few different books, until the price kept creeping up and up out of the price range of my students. So, I wrote my own and started a companion video series on YouTube. The first was called Bausteine and because there ended up being two they became known as
In Australia, one of the key concerns of young people is the cost of living. Textbooks contribute quite a bit to this for many students, so my textbooks are available to my enrolled students free of charge.
In the meantime, I’ve started another mini-series of guides on a range of different topics.
How to Compare in German You can pick this up for free now.
Is there anything you need a mini-guide on? Let me know in the comments.