Jannach's German for Reading Knowledge Review

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Jannach's German for Reading Knowledge ReviewI'm in a class with people using both the fifth and sixth editions of this book, and the changes seem to be entirely superficial and intended primarily to make it hard for instructors to let students buy used copies of older editions. (The sixth edition does things like change the order of the translation exercises without substantially changing their content.) That's just inexcusable, as this book could use some substantive changes.
I've never taken German before, and I sailed through the exercises in the first few chapters with no problem at all. Then suddenly at around chapter 8, I found myself having to look up every fourth word in the longer passages. The vocabulary glosses under these passages are totally insufficient when the passages employ grammatical structures you haven't been taught yet and words that haven't been introduced in the little end-of-chapter vocabulary sections (which strangely often repeat words from previous chapters). This seems like a minor complaint, but it's really hard to look up German words in a dictionary when you're dealing with separable prefixes, irregular verbs (especially before the book teaches you how to break them down to find the stem in a participle), compound nouns, and all those little words with multiple meanings. I don't expect learning to translate to be easy, but I do expect the textbook to help me out. In one particularly egregious example, the book defines the adjective angestellt (employed) when the actual word in the passage is the noun Angestellter. So does the noun mean "employer" or "employee" -- or something else altogether? Why even have the gloss if it's not for the right word? In that same passage, the book gives no gloss for the word "Kleist-Preis," which turns out to be a prize named after Heinrich von Kleist, which you would only know if you happen to follow German literary competitions. I spent forever trying to figure out what a kleist was.
I realize teaching vocabulary is difficult, but at the very least, this book could use an appendix on how to use German-English dictionaries. I got a large one recommended by my professor, and I have a hard time with it because the abbreviations are all in German.Jannach's German for Reading Knowledge Overview

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