GERMANS ARE FUNNY. A Guide to Teaching Foreign LanguagesNot a textbook or lesson planner, but ideas and inspiration foractivities in-and-outside-of-the-classroom for teaching German as aforeign language, or other foreign languages, to students grades6 - 12."The book 'Germans are Funny' by Conrad Rehbach will be veryhelpful to many. It offers ideas and inspiration to educators wellbeyond the foreign language teachers. The pedagogical insightsare deep and meaningful, and convey to the educator possibilitieson how to teach adolescents in a 'head, heart, and hands'approach.Although primarily targeted towards the teacher of foreignlanguages, this book is of interest to anyone involved in educationof students in grades 6 - 12. The author draws on a lifetime of workwith this age group. New insights are presented in this book, concerning the developmental stages of the adolescent, fromthe revolutionary rebellious spirit to the beginnings of objectivitytowards the self and others. The author reminds us to alwaysmake room for the necessary humor, and to see the potentialabsurdity of every situation, a mindset which is one of the fruits oflabor in working with this age group."- Sophia Institute Board of Review"Thank you for this book. It is an inspiration for my work in theclassroom. I have already composed my own mystery dictations(in Spanish), and the students loved it ... " - Foreign language(Spanish) teacher, Wisconsin, USA.Cover artwork: Marjorie Rehbac