Title: This book needs lots of improvement!
Product review: I've tried this book/cassettes and it's not a bad book, but it's just needs some improvement. First, it needs to be in PINYIN! All the texts are in chinese characters and not pinyin. Secondly, translation paralleling the text would be extremely helpful. It has none! Thirdly, the people who speak on the tapes are not trained in "play-acting". They just read but do not have a realistic dialogue between 2 Chinese. Better and clearer voices are needed to speak in the recording. I understand that the purpose of "intermediate/advance" book is for the student to look up words/vocabularies by themselves but since it is for self-study purpose it is so extremely time-consuming to do it by one-self.
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