Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not for Absolute Beginners

From page 1 of the introduction, Teach Yourself Swedish claims to be for absolute beginners, however I would disagree. There is nothing wrong with fast pace dialogs once you already have the basics of pronunciation down but this book never helps with that.You don't get word by word pronunciation of the vocabulary or phrases leaving you in a bit of a dazed in a sea of sounds trying to pull apart the words to be able to later form your own sentence.From chapter one, dialog one the pace is pretty fast for someone with no previous knowledge of even one word of Swedish. The progression of the grammar points leaves a lot to be desired. Basically it is a poor or rather frustrating course if you are an absolute beginner.I am glad I didn't buy this book but rather rented it from the library.But I would say that it would be great for someone with previous knowledge of Swedish because the dialogs would be good listening practice.