Teach Yourself Modern Hebrew Complete Course Audiopack (book and audio) (Teach Yourself Language Courses)

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Summary: TERRIBLE BOOK
Review: as a long time reader of Teach Yourself series in several langs. I am amazed at how low they have sunk in quality. this latest one in Hebrew is awful. there is no indication of accent marks(you have to buy tapes), the book tries to be a travel book + language, but succeeds at neither, no explaination of complicated hebrew verb system at all, book is geared more to pithy travel phrases(most of which are idiomatic and impossible to figure out in advance); numerous misspellings in both the English & Hebrew, the hebrew printing is extremely small and almost impossible to read without a magnifying glass! - and almost no meaningful translations are given as exercises to practice what little you may learn from this book. Overall- there is no redeeming qualities to recommend. Save your money!