![]() Since I used only the videos and the subtitle files (which I only used to extract vocabulary into Anki), I cannot speak to the printed instructional materials. Every so many lessons there will be a review segment. After a video segment, there will be commentary and explanation by Prof. It then leads to various segments such as interviews with some German students and a group of videos on a German family with a kid and the problems juggling their careers and home, and some videos about other aspects of German life. After a while it morphs into stories about Marion herself as actress for the series and a college student. There are 36 videos of around 30 minutes each, and the course starts out following a German family in Rheinhausen, with the daughter Marion the focus. I have not actually seen the audio CDs, and their numbering scheme may actually go to 3, but still just covering the two books above. However note that there is currently a deceptive listing for a book 3, which is actually just the 2nd intermediate book. Subtitle files in zip file (on 3rd party site even though with Annenberg logo)Īpart from the DVDs and older VHS tapes, the materials above can mostly be had cheaply used off Amazon. Textbook 2 - labeled Fokus Deutsch, Intermediate German Textbook 1 -labeled Fokus Deutsch: Beginning German 1 ![]() It thus cannot be purchased new, and apparently is no longer being distributed to public television stations. However a domain search on Goethe's site turns up no information on the program. Robert di Donato, who acts as one of the narrators on the videos.Īpparently Annenberg discontinued distributing the course, and it is listed in the catalog as same and refers to the Goethe site. Basic information can be found in the wikipedia article for same. They also produced the Destinos for Spanish (and Nuevos Destinos) and French in Action for French. Fokus Deutsch was a German learning series produced by the Goethe-Institut and WGBH and funded by Annenberg Media for English speakers, and for some years ran on various public television stations in the USA.
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