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makes Gujarati very easy to learn

Looking forward to becoming conversational!

If it weren't for the absolute dearth of Gujarati-English language instruction texts, I would be giving this text 1 star. That being said, it's much better than most other options. Dwyer is a professor and while her translations are often a little too scholarly/elite, they are on the whole accurate. There are clear rules provided for Gujarati grammar and she explains them with precision. Unfortunately, the text itself is laid out terribly. The text written in Gujarati script is tiny and thus difficult to read – especially for beginners. Instead of outlining what vocabulary you will be learning, the text sprinkles new words throughout the chapter without ever clearly summarizing what was covered. This is especially irksome as there is only a Gujarati-English dictionary at the back – NO English-Gujarati one. Plus, there is a distinct lack of practice questions and no space in the book to work on the few prompts that are offered. In short, it's lousy, but until someone makes a real textbook, this is the best you're going to get.

Gujarati learning resources are hard to come by, and this is a good basic course supplemented by downloadable content. My only criticism is that the small format and font are not conducive to reading or learning Gujarati script.

I have some background speaking a reading Gujarati, and this book is FULL of typographical and proofreading errors. Nearly every page has some issue, especially the first part on the script. If this weren't one of the only books available to learn the language as an English speaker, I'd recommend steering clear of it. But since it is one of the only books...

I ordered it and the book came with one CD that didn't work in any of my CD players. I exchanged it for another and the CD still didn't work. I missed the window to return it so I'm stuck with it - useless.

I have recieved this book but it has one Audio cd less. Also had some 40-50 pages missing. Very bad . But loved amazon for their service returned my money. But the book very bad. Incomplete content

I pre-ordered this, but I guess I should have waited so I could have had the second audio CD.