Title: silly pronunciation system
Product review: Lonely Planet books usually deserve rave reviews. Their Mandarin Phrasebook, however, uses a system of pronunciation that is much more confusing than helpful. The tragedy is that Mandarin already has a very workable western-script pronunciation system called "pinyin." Pinyin doesn't take long to learn and is very standard in Mandarin Chinese dictionaries and textbooks. A traveler looking to buy a useful phrasebook will be much happier with a standard pinyin phrasebook. .
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