German At The Open University

Newest Review: ... worth of work, and you'll be working from the workbook, textbook and DVD-ROM. The workbook contains mostly information about grammar and there are plenty of fairly simple excersises to do. However, I feel the book moves on too quickly and doesn't allow as much practise as I'd like for something I've just absorbed. The textwork book is reading and writing excersises, which I don't really feel compliment the content of the workbook. I tend to skip quite a lot of this as I find it very tiresome. It also seems quite useless writing a 200 word piece that nobody's ever going to check. I prefer practise methods where I can mark my own work. ... more

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German At The Open University: Deutsch Studieren (749 words)
by - written on 18/05/09 (Very useful, 61 readings)
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I'm currently half way through the L130 Intermediate German course with the Open University. This review will centre around this particular course as I didn't take the beginner's course with the OU having already completed a GCSE in German. At the start of your course you're given a DVD-ROM with two discs, online applications that you'll probably need to use on the course, two workbooks and one textwork book. I initially had problems with the DVD-ROM upon finding out it was only Windows compatible and wouldn't run on my Mac, without installing Windows, which I really didn't want to do. This meant actually having to fork out for a laptop as I only had a Windows ... Read the complete review

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