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Officiële naam: Greenfield, Eric Viele
Geboortedatum: 1882
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German grammar door Eric V. Greenfield

This is a conventional book of grammar lessons, remarkable for two things: It was written and revised in the United States during World War II, with help from a German expat. And it is the most recent book I know of to make use of the Fraktur script, with its elaborate letter forms that used to give such difficulties to students of German. My copy of this book is from a 1965 reprinting, long after Fraktur had supposedly become obsolete. So it's an interesting footnote to the history of typography, at least.… (meer)

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Muscogulus | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 11, 2011 |

German grammar: 48 lessons with exercises,… door Eric V. Greenfield

This would be an excellent guide to learning German, if it weren't for a huge obstacle: The book uses the old German script, not the current "Latin" one. When s's look like f's to the native English speaker, it makes for a very difficult time reading German text. Futhermore, standard use of the old Fraktur and Schwabacher fonts was abolished in 1941.

Old language books are often clearer than recent ones, but it's to little avail when the language has moved on.

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csoki637 | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 12, 2007 |

Technical and scientific German door Eric V. Greenfield

Grammatical explanation is banished to a selection of endnotes, which average a mere one per page. A 120-page glossary follows the reading selections.

Summary of selections:
I. Physik (11 readings taken from Physik by H. Zuschlag)

II. Chemie (10 readings from Anorganische Chemie and Allgemeine und physikalische Chemie)

III. Selections from "Die Welt der Tecnik" (14 readings on diverse subjects, like "Wie die 'Titanic' jetz aussehen mag" and "Erinnerungen an Robert Bunsen")

IV. Elektrizität (8 readings on electromagnetism and electrical power)

V. Mechanik (6 readings on industrial history and technical speculation)… (meer)

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benwbrum | Jan 17, 2007 |