Fluenz German Review

Everybody in the language community is talking about it – this radically new way to learn a foreign language! The developers of Fluenz German have been on NBC, explaining why their method works so much better than any other system you may have tried. And there's a lot of good solid logic behind their product – and one big hitch, too.

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If you ever tried to learn German – or any foreign language – in school, think back to that experience. You probably remember hours in a language lab, listening to recordings of someone droning "What is your name... What is your name... What is your name" (or, technically, "Wie heißen Sie?") as you repeat what you think you heard in the silences between the speaker's phrases. And then two days later, you've forgotten everything, because it didn't make sense to you in the first place.

In the first place, why isn't the correct way to ask someone's name in German "Was ist ihr Name?" – in other words, the literal translation of the English words? The answer, as the developers of Fluenz German will tell you, is deceptively simple -- German isn't English! It's not structured like English, and it doesn't follow the same rules. Fluenz German focuses on explaining how German DOES work, and what the ground rules are.

Fluenz German also has a tremendous amount of well-crafted audio and video and an engaging video tutor. It might not be the best program for a person with attention deficit disorder, but it could be just the ticket for a logical mind who finds the rudiments of German baffling.

So what's the "hitch" I mentioned at the beginning? The price. The developers of Fluenz German recognize that not everyone approaches the study of a new language with the same needs, so they have chosen to market just the stripped down basics as Fluenz German 1 at $187.00 USD. If you need more German, and you will, the next tier is Fluenz German 1 + 2 at $338.00. (They call this level the "introductory option," which makes you wonder what Fluenz German 1 was supposed to accomplish.) If you want the whole package, that's Fluenz German 1 + 2 + 3 at nearly $400. Let's face it: that's a lot of money. For vastly less, you could purchase the entire comprehensive package of Rocket German – an excellent program that comes complete with an interactive learner's forum. In the end, it's difficult to recommend Fluenz German – as good as it is -- when there is such an affordable alternative.

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