The original Agricola rulebook is almost completely unusable and the only way to learn how to play back in the day was someone who already knew how to play teac

The original Agricola rulebook is almost completely unusable and the only way to learn how to play back in the day was someone who already knew how to play teaching you - I presume in an unbroken oral tradition all the way back to Uwe Rosenberg. More recent Agricola rule books are much better.