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Title: Disappointing
Review: I found this book to be one of the worst in the Teach Yourself series. Some of the problems are common to other new titles in this series, while others are unique to this book. The coverage of grammar is extremely weak. Many of the exercises are not challenging at all--matching elements in two columns, circling words, rearranging sentences--and do little to increase command of the language or reinforce material learned. Other exercises require vocabulary that was never introduced and is not even in the glossary. There is far too much English on the CDs, and astonishingly, English words are used as examples for Greek pronunciation. Often there is no time allotted on the recording to repeat the Greek phrases. The author and editors seem to lack a basic grasp of elementary principles of language pedagogy.
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