Title: Obsolete edition - get the newer one; also, poor intro to characters
Review: Elizabeth Scurfield's Chinese texts and material are generally very good, but I recommend not getting this for two reasons:1) It's an old edition that has been replaced with a newer one at the same price, and it uses audio cassettes instead of CDs. (If you only have a cassette player, perhaps in the car, you might consider this anyway.)2) The textbook waits far too long to introduce Chinese characters. While characters are hard, they're absolutely vital to learning Chinese. You can't really teach Chinese using pinyin.
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