German In Action Author:Walter Stewart German in Action is a new German foreign language text that is designed to help English speakers understand and communicate in German easily and confidently. Professor Walter Stewart has produced a new method which he calls the cognitive method that allows English speakers to use their intuitive knowledge of their own language in order to cognit... more »ively connect to ways of saying things in German. The method employs integrated everyday vocabulary, reading selections, dialogues, and exercises in order to constantly reinforce a speaker s confidence in reading, writing, and speaking. Although German in Action employs grammar, it is by no means a traditional foreign language grammar text. Rather, the native language and syntactic structures that every speaker knows intuitively are the primary guides to making communication in German an enjoyable and rewarding experience.« less