Title: Gets the basics wrong--how can the rest be good?
Product review: Any native speaker of English worth his salt knows that "t-h-e" is pronounced "thee" before a vowel sound (thee [the] apple, thee [the] hour), and "thuh" before a consonant sound (thuh [the] pear), and that "a" is, almost without exception, pronounced "uh" ("uh" [a] pear). "A" is only pronounced "ay" when stressing the word itself, or stressing the singular ("ay" [a] pear, not _several_ pears). (Both of these are very, very rare in actual usage.) For example, on p. 143, the authors write "the cat..." There is a long mark over the "e" on "the" before cat. The authors should have learned this when they were children learning to read. If I were to teach someone to read with this volume, I would have to scour the book for mistakes first, a very time-consuming task. I do not recommend this book by any means.
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