This course is excellent for blending vocabulary, grammar and phraseology all together and learning them by practical, applied techniques as you progress along. This is a very applied course where you learn by German used in real life situations, rather than just by the learning of vocabulary and some how bolting it together by grammar. You learn by phrases and pick up the vocabulary and grammar as you go on.
As a fluent German speaking friend said to me, it's all about learning the phrases. This makes for much more fun and pleasure in learning and satisfaction in being able to speak useful things in ever day situations in German from the start of the course.