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I'm just starting on German. I'm primarily using Goethe Institute's A1-Deutsch app but I'd like an English resource covering grammar too.
I'm not sure whether studying via sentence completion and conversational examples is the most efficient way for my learning style. I think explicitly studying grammar would simultaneously assist in building vocabulary and proper usage. Any suggestions for a grammar primer?
I have an Anki deck but feel as if my lack of a grammatical foundation puts me at a disadvantage with it. I need to learn a bit more about the back-end/theoretical basis for how it works; perhaps that poor understanding is getting in the way as well.
Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook by H. Schenke.
It's short. Too short. Too few exercises and only covers material up to A2+ or so. But at only 200 pages, it's so ridiculously short!!!! One of the fastest reads you can do on this subject.
As long as you use this book as an auxiliary, it's great. It's not a primary lesson material, it's to help explain other books / other lessons.