Title: Did any Chinese learners actually read this before they published it?
Product review: The dialogue in the book is reasonably interesting and challenging, but it really speaks poorly of the authors when they can't even bother to list all of the new vocabulary that gets used in the book. Granted, it's not part of a series, but by the 14th chapter, I had to look up no less than 30 words to understand 2 pages of dialog. I meticulously keep track of all vocabulary that I have ever learned and so it's impossible that I just forgot it. This really just gives students a lot of unnecessary frustration. I can understand you might miss a word here and there, but 30+???. Come on guys. Have a student read the thing before you publish it and mark all the words he had to look up, add those to the new word list. I seriously hope the problems are fixed in the 2nd edition of this book, but I doubt I'll bother ever reading it to find out.
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