Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Berlitz Essential Italian

This book is strangely organized and the vocabulary is not what I would call "essential". It's marketed as a self study course, but I think it would be a nightmare to be using this on one's own. The grammar explanations are much too brief to understand the reasoning and concepts behind each point. The course I am currently taking, and the one for which I purchased the book, is much more reliant on supplemental material and we find ourselves rarely using the book at all. This book has very little to offer and while there are several other beginning italian books that are quite good, this is not one of them.