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Title: Stay away if you want to learn anything
Review: The tape wouldn't be so bad if it were backed up by a text of any quality at all. But the leaflet it comes with is less than worthless -- it's misleading.First, it doesn't use pinyin as its phonetic spelling system. They make up their own. This will teach you very bad habits if you care to move past this very simple level.Beyond that, it gives nothing but phrases to say with no hint to what the words in them mean.The text is just a transcription of what's on the tape. The only additional information is a short bizarre pronunciation guide and a woefully inadequate description of tonality.A very low-level introduction to the language. Appropriate only if you're not willing to spend more than 30 minutes studying the language.
