Basic German Course (BAOR Edition) 1964
Since British Forces were going to be in Germany for a very long time, in great numbers, as a bulwark against the "Communist Horde", efforts were always made to teach "Tommy" the local lingo in an attempt to boost community relations. Sadly, most never seemed to progress beyond "ein Bier bitte, darling!" (I have heard this).
This offering was produced in 1964 by 3 Higher Education Centre. By the 1970s this had become 43 (Army Education Centre) RAEC, from 1970 based at Wrexham Barracks, Mulheim an der Ruhr. In all fairness, this was not all cartoons as these pages suggest; the lessons were based on grammar, with explanations of parts of speech. When I did Russian in 1982 and Serbo-Croat in 1993, there were officers from private schools who were totally flummoxed by terms like "pronoun" and "adverb", they would have struggled with this booklet.
Basic German Course (BAOR Edition) 1964
Since British Forces were going to be in Germany for a very long time, in great numbers, as a bulwark against the "Communist Horde", efforts were always made to teach "Tommy" the local lingo in an attempt to boost community relations. Sadly, most never seemed to progress beyond "ein Bier bitte, darling!" (I have heard this).
This offering was produced in 1964 by 3 Higher Education Centre. By the 1970s this had become 43 (Army Education Centre) RAEC, from 1970 based at Wrexham Barracks, Mulheim an der Ruhr. In all fairness, this was not all cartoons as these pages suggest; the lessons were based on grammar, with explanations of parts of speech. When I did Russian in 1982 and Serbo-Croat in 1993, there were officers from private schools who were totally flummoxed by terms like "pronoun" and "adverb", they would have struggled with this booklet.