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Title: One main problem.
Review: This book is lacking in numerous ways, but its major problem is how it gives vocabulary notes. Instead of trying to explain the grammar and listing each word separately, it gives entire phrases (sometimes even sentences) as individual vocabulary items. How are you then supposed to use individual words? I guess if you're aim is to learn "useful phrases" for the purposes of travel, this book would work for you, but for an active understanding of how to speak productively, you're going to have to look elsewhere.
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