Part I: The Basic Building Blocks of German.

Chapter 1: Assembling the Basic Tools for German Sentences.

Chapter 2: Sorting Out Word Gender and Case.

Chapter 3: Laying the Foundations of German.

Chapter 4: Building Your Word Power.

Part II: Getting Started Now: Writing in the Present.

Chapter 5: Grasping the Present Tense.

Chapter 6: Are You Asking or Telling Me? Questions and Commands.

Chapter 7: Answering Intelligently with Yes, No, and Maybe.

Chapter 8: Describing Your Mood: Summing Up the Subjunctive.

Chapter 9: In the Mood: Combining Verbs with Modal Auxiliaries.

Chapter 10: Sorting Out Separable- and Inseparable- Prefix Verbs.

Part III: Fine Tuning Your Writing with Flair.

Chapter 11: Sounding More Like a Native with Verb Combinations.

Chapter 12: Adding Adjectives for Description.

Chapter 13: Comparing with Adjectives and Adverbs.

Chapter 14: Connecting with Conjunctions.

Chapter 15: Your Preposition Primer.

Part IV: Looking Back and Ahead: Writing in the Past and the Future.

Chapter 16: Conversing about the Past: Perfecting the Present Perfect.

Chapter 17: Narrating the (Simple) Past: Fact and Fiction.

Chapter 18: Looking to the Future (and Avoiding It).

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Optimizing Your German.

Chapter 20: Ten Pitfalls to Avoid in German.

Part VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Verb Charts.

Appendix B: Case Charts.

Appendix C: English-German Dictionary.

Appendix D: German-English Dictionary.

Index.