For Beginning Students of German . . . Essential German: A No-Frills Approach to Reading and Writing German Visitors to my web site have asked if my web program Essential German exists as a book. It does now. This brand new book includes the same four books as the web program, the same thirty-six chapters, the same vocabulary studies and grammar explanations, the same dialogues and fairy tales, the same exercises, the same answer sections, and the same glossary. What the book has that the web program does not have are nineteen poems by famous German writers such as Goethe and Heine and one unusual fable, all with copious marginal notes. All of this is crammed, in 10-point type, on 152 pages. There is truly a wealth of material on each page. This 8 1/2" x 11" book has a soft cover protected by a plastic overlay. The price of the book is $16, including postage within the U.S. and handling. If you order more than one copy, you may subtract $1 from the price of each book after the first. To order, please write to me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address, and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include your address. I will try to send your book or books to you on the day your order arrives or on the following day. The post office expects shipment to take approximately ten days. * * * * * For Intermediate Students of German . . . Unbekannt und Unbeachtet: German Fairy Tales You May Have Missed Most of the 200 plus fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are unfamiliar to native speakers of English. From these unknown tales, I have selected sixteen that I find especially engaging. Several are love stories in which husbands, wives, and lovers must overcome awesome obstacles to win, keep, or regain their beloved. One tale tells of a sister's selfless devotion to her brothers and another of a boy's love for his imprisoned mother. Among the featured characters are simpletons who outsmart their "wiser" brothers, an innocent princess who prevails against a treacherous chambermaid, and a loving husband who breaks the arrogance of his spoiled wife. Comedy is provided by a petulant devil, a tiny troublemaker, an overly curious wife, an ungrateful dwarf, and a princess disguised as a man, among others. Thirty-three vocabulary lists accompany the tales, and copious marginal notes help students with both vocabulary and grammar. A 15-page glossary concludes the book. If you would like to view the book's introduction, click here. To view the table of contents, click here. This 8 1/2" x 11" book has a soft cover protected by a plastic overlay. The price of the book is $13, including postage within the U.S. and handling. If you order more than one copy, you may subtract $1 from the price of each book after the first. To order, please write to me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address, and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include your address. I will try to send your book or books to you on the day your order arrives or on the following day. The post office expects shipment to take approximately ten days. * * * * * Aus erster Hand: Letters
by Famous German-Speaking Men and Women
The 28 German letters contained
in this book were written by German-speaking men and women of some
prominence. The first letter takes you back more than two hundred years,
while the last dates from only about 60 years ago. Out of hundreds of
letters that I examined, I chose these because I believed they would have
broad appeal and because they were, in general, without unmanageable
grammatical and lexical complexities. The letters express a wide range
of emotions and attitudes, from disdain to compassion, from delight to
disillusionment, from longing to fulfillment, from hope to hopelessness,
from diffidence to self confidence, from criticism to congratulations.
Topically, the letters deal with death, the French Revolution, scientific
investigation and discovery, theater, medicine, business, politics, the
military, psychology, and morality, to name only some. As sources of
knowledge, the letters are gold mines. Most of the letters are too
difficult for intermediate students to read with ease until they have
taken time to acquaint or reacquaint themselves with some of the
words. For that reason, each section of each letter is preceded by a
vocabulary list. Troublesome words not contained in these lists are
glossed. A rather thorough explanation of major points of German grammar
is available in discrete sections interspersed throughout the book. A
glossary containing some 1400 German words has also been provided. The book contains 28 letters--13
found on my web site as well as 15 additional letters. You may preview the
table of contents by clicking here.
Each letter is followed by questions in German about the contents of the
letter, by English sentences to be translated into German by the student,
and by a research suggestion or a suggestion for discussion. This * * * * * *** A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming *** A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming is now in its second edition. Its 114 pages contain the definitions of 97 grammatical terms, a page of diagramming symbols, 105 diagramming examples ranging in difficulty from very easy to very difficult, 30 exercises containing 274 sentences to be diagrammed, a separate answer section with a diagram and a verbal analysis of each sentence, and a concluding section of 30 sentences of medium length (with solutions), intended as a review of most of the diagramming concepts presented in the book. Teachers purchasing a copy of this book may photocopy all or some of its pages for free distribution to their students. The price of the second edition is $14 (including book-rate shipment within the United States), slightly less per book if multiple copies are ordered. If you want to buy one or more copies of this book, please email me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include the address to which you want the book or books sent. Please allow 10-14 days for delivery. At long last, you may purchase student copies of A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming. The student copy contains all the material of the regular edition with the exception of the answers (diagramming solutions and explanations) to the exercises. Additional space has been provided so that students who write small and work carefully will be able to construct most of their diagrams in their books. The price of a student copy is $12.50 ($11.50 when more than one book is ordered). * * * * * For Young Learners *** A First Book of Sentence Diagramming *** A First Book of Sentence Diagramming is a diagramming workbook for elementary and middle-school students. The student edition of this book contains, in addition to definitions and explanations, some 115 model diagrams and 250 sentences for students to diagram. These model diagrams and sentences are entirely new; they are not taken from A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming or from my web site. Space is provided in the book for the student's diagrams. A separate teacher's edition of A First Book of Sentence Diagramming contains all of the pages of the student edition as well as solutions (diagrams of the 250 sentences), eight unit tests, and test solutions. The student edition has 86 pages and costs $12.50 (less for multiple copies). The teacher's edition has 120 pages and costs $15 (less for multiple copies). These prices include book-rate postage within the United States. Teachers, you may photocopy, for free distribution to your students, the material on pages 87-120 of the teacher's edition: unit tests and solutions for all exercises and tests; furthermore, if neither your schools nor your students can or will purchase student copies, you may photocopy pages 1-86 as well for free distribution to your students. All other rights are reserved by the author. If you would like to view the table of contents of A First Book of Sentence Diagramming, please click here. To view the unit divider page for Unit I, click here. Each of the eight units is introduced by a similar page. To view the first page of Lesson 22, click here. If you want to buy one or more copies of this book, please email me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include the address to which you want the book or books sent. Please allow 10-14 days for delivery. * * * * * *** A Second Book of Sentence Diagramming *** A Second Book of Sentence Diagramming is intended for middle-school and high-school students. This book begins where A First Book of Sentence Diagramming ends and has the same basic structure. The student edition of this book contains, in addition to definitions and explanations, some 82 model diagrams and 201 sentences for students to diagram. These model diagrams and sentences are entirely new; they are not taken from A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming or from my web site. Space is provided in the book for the student's diagrams. A separate teacher's edition of A Second Book of Sentence Diagramming contains all of the pages of the student edition as well as solutions (diagrams of the 201 sentences), eight unit tests, and test solutions. The student edition has 86 pages and costs $12.50 (less for multiple copies). The teacher's edition has 133 pages and costs $16 (less for multiple copies). These prices include book-rate postage within the United States. Teachers, you may photocopy, for free distribution to your students, the material on pages 87-133 of the teacher's edition: unit tests and solutions for all exercises and tests; furthermore, if neither your schools nor your students can or will purchase student copies, you may photocopy pages 1-86 as well for free distribution to your students. All other rights are reserved by the author. If you would like to view the table of contents of A Second Book of Sentence Diagramming, please click here. To view the unit divider page for Unit I, click here. Each of the eight units is introduced by a similar page. To view the first page of Lesson 22, click here. If you want to buy one or more copies of this book, please email me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include the address to which you want the book or books sent. Please allow 10-14 days for delivery. * * * * * ***Diagramming Step by Step*** ~ One Hundred and Fifty-five Steps to Diagramming Excellence ~ Diagramming Step by Step: One Hundred and Fifty-five Steps to Diagramming Excellence, my fourth book of sentence diagramming, is similar to the second edition of A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming; however, there are several important differences: 1 - The examples and exercises of Diagramming Step by Step are completely new. 2 - The teacher's edition of Diagramming Step by Step has 158 pages, 44 more than A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming. Student copies are also available. They do not have answers in the back; in every other respect, they are the same as the teacher's edition. 3 - Diagramming Step by Step has 40 more diagramming examples than A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming. 4 - Diagramming Step by Step has 83 more sentences for students to diagram; moreover, ten of these sentences have more than 100 words each. A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming has no sentences of this length. Click here to see one of these 100-word sentences. 5 - The instructional section of the book is divided into 24 lessons, each with a page of grammar explanation, a page of model diagrams, and a page of sentences to be diagrammed by the student. Click here to see an entire lesson (three pages). I regret the poor quality of some images. 6 - In a section entitled "People in the Park," a storyteller (that's me) tells stories about the lives of people in the park, and the student is expected to diagram the sentences of these stories. Grammar hints are provided for those who need them. Click here to see one of the stories. Click here to see the table of contents. Like the second edition of A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming, the teacher's edition of Diagramming Step by Step has, in the back, "answers" (diagrams and explanations) for every sentence in every exercise, including "People in the Park" and "100-word Sentences." Should you buy this book if you already have A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming? Not necessarily, but if you are looking for additional diagramming challenges for yourself or your students, you will find plenty in this book. Should you buy this book instead of A Workbook of Sentence Diagramming? Again, not necessarily. This book may have more material than you need. Diagramming Step by Step is also available in an enlarged edition. It features 24 additional pages, each entitled "Writing Correctly." These pages offer students writing tips related to the topics of the corresponding 24 lessons. Click here to view two of these pages. I have dedicated this book to my recently deceased wife of 41 years, Joni. For that reason, I have tried to make it my best diagramming book. If I ever seek a publisher for one of my books, this will be the one. Click here to view pictures of Joni and to read about her life and death. Teachers purchasing a copy of this book may photocopy all or some of its pages for free distribution to their students. The price of the teacher's edition of Diagramming Step by Step is $18.* A student copy sells for $12.50. The enlarged edition (the teacher's edition with 24 pages of writing tips--182 pages in all) sells for $20. The prices, which include handling and media-mail shipment within the United States, are slightly less per book if multiple copies are ordered. If you want to buy one or more copies of this book, please email me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include the address to which you want the book or books sent. Please allow 10-14 days for delivery. *As of November 2, 2009, I have fewer than ten copies of the regular teacher's edition ($18) left. This edition will not be reprinted; when the remaining copies are gone, the only teacher's edition available will be the teacher's enlarged edition ($20). * * * * * New in 2009! *** Analyzing the Grammar of Literature *** Diagrams of 130 Long Sentences from British and American Writers This, my fifth book of sentence diagramming, is unlike any of the other four and, to the best of my knowledge, unlike any other book available. It is not for beginners. It offers 130 sentences gleaned from the works of 57 British and American writers. The shortest sentence in the collection has 70 words, the longest 472. The median length (the length of the sentence right in the middle) is 100 words; to be precise, Sentence 65 has 99 words, Sentence 66 has 100. Diagrams of all 130 sentences are contained in in the "back" of the book, i.e., in the final five-sixths of the book. Each diagram occupies at least one page of the book; the longest covers four pages. Degree of syntactic difficulty played no role in the selection of sentences. Sentence length and author’s literary reputation were the major criteria. The authors represented in this book are Henry Adams, Matthew Arnold, Jane Austin, James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Samuel Butler, George Washington Cable, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, James Fennimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Henry Fielding, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Goldsmith, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Washington Irving, William James, Thomas Jefferson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Samuel Johnson, James Joyce, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, James Michener, John Stuart Mill, Cardinal Newman, Edgar Allan Poe, Budd Schulberg, John O'Hara, Sir Walter Scott, Adam Smith, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Sterne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Wolfe, and William Wordsworth. Teachers purchasing a copy of this book may photocopy all or some of its pages for free distribution to their students. Analyzing the Grammar of Literature has 185 8 1/2" x 11" pages; it has a soft cover protected by a plastic overlay. Click here to see the cover. The price of the book is $22, which includes handling and media-mail shipment within the United States. Multiple copies cost slightly less. If you want to buy one or more copies of this book, please email me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include the address to which you want the book or books sent. Please allow 10-14 days for delivery. * * * * * *** 2016 Latin Derivatives for Latin Students *** Second Edition If you are a classroom Latin teacher or a home-school mom or dad who wants to make Latin derivatives an important part of the study of Latin, this book may be just the thing for you. Each of the 2016 Latin derivatives in the second edition of 2016 Latin Derivatives for Latin Students is defined and used in an original sentence. Of course, each of these derivatives is accompanied by its Latin root word or words. In addition, the book includes thousands of English words that are closely related to the 2016 featured derivatives. The four main parts of the book have forty-two lessons each, and each lesson contains twelve derivatives. To view three lessons (actual size is 8½ x 11), click here. In arranging the derivatives, especially the derivatives of Parts I and II, I have taken into consideration the order in which Latin words are introduced in two standard Latin textbooks. For ease in locating any of the 2016 derivatives, a glossary has been appended. The price of the 72-page student edition is $12. A separate edition for teachers contains everything found in the student edition plus 168 ten-point quizzes (and answers), one for each lesson in the book; this edition has 122 pages and sells for $15. To view four quizzes (actual size is 8½ x 11), click here. If you want to order one or more copies, please write to me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address, and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include your address. I will try to send your book or books to you on the day your order arrives or on the following day. The post office expects shipment to take approximately ten days. Teachers purchasing a copy of this book may photocopy all or some of its pages for free distribution to their students. * * * * * ***Thousands of Latin Derivatives*** If you have enjoyed and profited from the Latin-derivatives pages of my web site, you will love this book, for it is more comprehensive and better organized. It contains more than 3000 Latin derivatives that are defined and used in sentences and, in addition, many thousands of related Latin derivatives. The Latin root words in this book are arranged alphabetically, as they are on my web pages, and ample cross references have been provided.. Under verb capio, for example, one finds three defined derivatives (the noun capital, the adjective capital, and capitalism), and cross references to other Latin root words: capax (itself cross-referenced to capacitas), captio, captiosus, captivus, concipio, exceptio, incipio, occupo (cross-referenced to praeoccupo), participium, percipio, praecerptum, and suscipio. Under these words you will find, defined and used in sentences, the Latin derivatives capacious, incapacitate, caption, captious, captivate, conceptualize, unexceptionable, incipient, preoccupied, participle, percipient, precept, and insusceptible as well as several hundred related words. Each of these Latin root words is cross-referenced to capio; additionally, participium is cross-referenced to the noun pars. To view three pertinent pages, click here (for technical reasons, the lines of these sample pages, though single-spaced in the book, are double-spaced on the Internet). In Thousands of Latin Derivatives there are 159 additional pages like the three that are linked to above; included also are a page of Latin prefixes and an eleven-page glossary of the book's principal Latin derivatives. Of course, many Latin words do not appear in the book--some because they offer only unchallenging derivatives, others because they have yielded no derivatives at all. The price of the book is $19. Eight-point type is used throughout. If you want to order one or more copies, please write to me at ermoutoux@juno.com. I will send you my address, and you can then mail me a check or money order (no cash or credit card numbers, please). Don't forget to include your address. I will try to send your book or books to you on the day your order arrives or on the following day. The post office expects shipment to take approximately ten days. Thanks. Gene Moutoux June 15, 2009 |
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