Title: I want a refund or LP should release 4th ed as a PDF
Product review: This is a terrible book. The author has come up with his own pronunciation system that is only somewhat different than pinyin. So instead of having to learn the Chinese script, pinyin, and pronunciation and tones, you also need to create a key to translate between the LP system and pinyin. This takes a difficult task and makes it even more time consuming.If I could talk to the people at LP I would suggest giving anyone who bought this disaster a free pdf version of the 4th edition (a guy can dream can't he). Get the "Rough Guide to Mandarin Chinese" which is going to updated in April 2006.
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