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Title: Riddled with mistakes
Review: I realised the more I studied this book the more I understood why it was so difficult to get the answers right when doing the exercises. It is riddled with mistakes. Even at the outset with simple greetings such as "How are you?" "I am well" , the answers to exercises have a woman using the masculine form (Exercise 1, Unit 1) and gives "Are you well?" to a man as ..estas 'bom' instead of the usual 'bem' without any explanation (box on page 15). In a table of personal pronouns, the feminine singular is given as a plural (elas instead of ela) Unit 2 p. 21 and in the same Unit a table of nationalities has transposed the feminine singular and masculine plural. And so it goes on. I thought it had been produced in a hurry but yet it appears to have had three editions since 1996. This company describes itself as loved and trusted - well it shouldn't abuse that trust. And can anybody recommend a good introductory book on European Portuguese?
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