Der, Die, Das - by Constantin Vayenas (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book is the Greek translation of "Der, Die, Das: The Secrets of German Grammar" (ISBN 978-3-9524810-0-4), which was originally published in English. </p><p>The challenge that foreign students of German face if they want to speak German well, is to accurately map German nouns to one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. Native German speakers acquire their knowledge of the grammatical gender of German nouns from early on. They are not given formal instruction at school about matching nouns to their correct gender, and the topic is not covered in standard German grammar books. For the same reason, native speakers who give German language lessons to foreigners do not teach their students how to match nouns to their gender: One cannot teach what one has not been taught. This book fills that gap in that it explains the principles that map German nouns to a specific gender. This allows foreign students of German to unlock the gender of entire categories of nouns, thereby enabling students to speak German more confidently.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>This book is extremely helpful in unlocking the code to gender in the German language. I've read multiple books on German and several have similar information, so I know that not only is the information good, but a whole book dedicated to just gender is fantastic! This is one of four major books anyone should have on their bookshelf. The other three being a dictionary, thesaurus and grammar book. I also advise always having these references in your library, even for your native language. Overall, a great buy!</p> <p>The gender of German nouns is a black hole in German grammar. This book offers mainly two methods to unveil German gender: (1) an approximated semantic-heuristic method, based on etymology (i.e. looking at the origins and history of words); (2) and an almost-safe method based on the last letters of nouns or selected first letters. Both methods can be combined to improve the probability of getting the correct gender. There are also extra descriptive methods that are interesting. I give it five stars. Every one learning German should have it.<br /> </p> <p>Tens of thousands of German nouns to learn, each carries one of three possible genders. So how do you learn which noun has which gender? There's the "just memorize it" approach, which may work well for native-speaking children, but, if we're being honest, simply doesn't work for adult non-native speakers. Then there's the "when in doubt, pick 'die'" approach which will give you a slightly better-than-random performance. Yet to a committed non-native speaker, this is just not good enough.</p> <p>Vayenas' book addresses a serious gap in German language pedagogy by illuminating hidden structure in genders of German nouns, giving non-native speakers a fighting chance at true fluency in this matter.<br /> </p> <p> </p><br>
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