By following the story of one character and his friends, it’s like reading fiction. Whether you are near or far away, the Audiokurs Deutsch Für Anfänger is a great thing to have at home, which is published with Deutsch Akademie. The book is helpful for many reasons, most notably because the texts go from English to German in the same paragraph (“His friends were easily persuaded because they all love skiing, sie lieben Skifahren”).
Throughout the storyline, there are lessons in between, translations and vocabulary building, which match up on the CD. For every chapter, there is a page with new phrases in English (“That doesn’t suit me at all”) with the corresponding translation (“Das past mir gar nicht”). If you have worked with other German textbooks, you’ll know this reference point is helpful and the storyline is much more colorful than what you’d typically expect. There is also a section in each chapter for grammar and verb examples. The rules are explained in plain language with several examples. Sie haben Glück gehabt – You’ve been lucky.