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Title: This book sucks
Review: First off, if you are being forced to learn a second language for a math degree, then you would already be put out. But to have use this crappy book with crappy exercises is just too much. I used this book through 103 (becuase I HAD to) and I still can't speak Spanish. I get good grades (even in this class) but only because testing is done before memory lapses. I suspect by fall quarter I won't remember 1/10 of this [...].I feel the problem lies in forcing students to take languages they either don't or won't need in the future, and then only offering an introduction. What a waste of time and money. And you school administrators have Phd.'s? If your only asset is teaching language, then go teach at a language school; keep out of out of the mainstream eduaction system so the rest of us can learn. And if you just HAVE to force foreign languages on us, can you at least use books that take into consideration we will never use the language? Something like Dick and Jane for Spanish?
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