Ultimate Italian Beginner-Intermediate (Coursebook) (Ultimate Beginner-Intermediate) Review

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Ultimate Italian Beginner-Intermediate (Coursebook) (Ultimate Beginner-Intermediate) ReviewTo my surprise, all other reviews are either five starts or just one star. In my opinion, the book falls somewhere in between, here are the pros and cons I find in it:
Positive
+ Compared to many other Italian courses, the grammar explanations are very extensive. "Italian in three months" leaves out many crucial parts of Italian grammar and both "Colloquial Italian" and "Teach Yourself Italian" present shorter and less structured grammar explanations. For grammar, this course is the best Italian course I've seen.
+ The course provides you with a rather large vocabulary, almost three times as many words as in "Italian in three months", slightly more than "Teach Yourself Italian" and about even with "Colloquial Italian".
+ Although a bit too short, the cultural points in each lesson are a nice add-on.
Negative
- The main drawback is the lack of accentuation for word stress. Unlike Spanish and French, Italian stress is not fixed and needs to be learned. Every Italian course I've ever seen marks the stress in the vocabulary lists, but this course ignores it.
- Too many mistakes. As this isn't the first edition, I was surprised to find so many mistakes, both in grammar explanations and in translations. I have no problems spotting them, but a beginner would just be confused.
- Bad layout. Compared to the excellent and well-thought layout in "Italian in three months", this course feels far from user-friendly. It's a minor point compared to the others, but still something that could be improved.
All in all, a rather helpful book but with some problems that need to be addressed before I could give it four or five stars.Ultimate Italian Beginner-Intermediate (Coursebook) (Ultimate Beginner-Intermediate) Overview

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