For everyone who wants or needs to learn Middle High German, there is finally a pragmatic textbook that gets straight to the point. Strengthened by decades of teaching experience at a large German university, the author focuses entirely on the one learning objective that has remained after all the curriculum reforms for Middle High German studies in Bachelor's programs: language acquisition to gain translation competence, as this is the only thing that counts in seminar and examination settings. Carefully, step by step, phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics are concentrated on the core learning material, leaving no mnemonic device unmentioned. As a practical example and reward, a mastered translation of 200 verses from "Erec" is provided at the end.