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Review title: Bane of My Existance
Product review: I taught from Side By Side for two years while living in Japan and intensely disliked it. I found the dialouges extremely moronic and unrealistic. Endless repitition and substitution drills are really no way to learn English. Furthermore, the first unit, in which students are complete beginners, contains 1. a reference to Social Security Numbers and 2. introduces the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Students at this level are still trying to cope with English letters and sounds; it is unfair to throw a cultural reference at them so early on. The inclusion of San Juan--with Spanish, not English pronunication--is really inexcusable.
