"Erkundungen" is a new, fully updated edition of "Das Mittelstufenbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache". Both levels of the course have a clear structure and the eight chapters in each book are divided into 4 parts: Themen und Aufgaben consisting of reading and listening texts, exercises for spoken and written communication and grammar; Wissenwertes offering additional material on the topic; Ubersichten und Zusatzubungen zur Grammatik providing a range of exercises to revise grammar and vocabulary: Ruckblick containing a summary of all the sentence structures used in the chapter and a self-evaluation section. "Erkundungen" is the follow up course to "Begegnungen".