ABSTRACT
Arguably the language learner’s greatest strength is hope, and hope is unfortunately sometimes dashed when it becomes clear that language learning inevitably involves regular long-term application (see advice below!). But it is also sometimes dashed by textbook authors’ over-ambition. Authors need to know their language, of course, but on behalf of their readers they also need to imagine they don’t. We are not sure that we have succeeded, but this is how we went about it …
