I have had this book for a while now. It is packed with information, more so than you would see in a modern book. However, it seems when this book was originally published they did not use "binyanim" to explain the Hebrew verb classes. Instead you will find a lot of seemingly technical jargon for grammatical rules. Some of the dialogues are dull and instead of using all modern conversations or literature the book sometimes has passages from an ancient story called "Holophernes and Judith" rendered in Modern Hebrew. I would choose this book as a probably complete reference guide to Hebrew, but buy something else to really get going in the language.