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Reviewed Work(s): Pons: Easy German for Beginners. Comprehensive Inter@active Software
Trainer by ; Pons: Easy German Vocab. Comprehensive Inter@active Software Trainer by ;
Pons: Easy German Grammar. Comprehensive Inter@active Software Trainer by
Review by: Antje Carlson
Source: Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring, 2007), pp. 86-87
Published by: Wiley on behalf of the American Association of Teachers of German
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