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Title: yesterday's news
Review: I was disappointed by this book. I was hoping to get some insight into Italian before traveling there for the first time and found the same kind of pseudoscientific nonsense that charasterized my studies of Linguistics in the late 1980s. I have studied Latin, French, and Spanish, so I might have hoped that I could find an approach to Italian that could skip all the cloudy methphysics that goes into entry-level grammars. Even if you can penetrate the arcane treatment of an apparently overgeneralized subject, you may find yourself asking, "What's the point?" in a dialect of English that is alien to these academic types. It was expensive, too.
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