I am currently on chapter 13 of this book. It is a really nice, well writen book. It doesnt bog you down a lot with grammar and the drills and excercises are really helpful. This books gives you small chunks at a time, so if you take your time with it, you can really learn a lot in my opinion. There are two things wrong with it though.
1) The pronounciation section, I think its lacking. There should be more examples and a few more oral excercises before the start of the real coursework
2) There are some typos in it that are a small nuisance, like for example when they intended to make a statement bold and the forget to make the last word bold, or in some few instances the last letter of a word might be capitalized when its not supposed to. An example would be the word "doi" (radio -- the accents were left off), and in some instances it was typed as "doI", just a silly typo.

all in all it is a good book.

I am currently on chapter 13 of this book. It is a really nice, well writen book. It doesnt bog you down a lot with grammar and the drills and excercises are really helpful. This books gives you small chunks at a time, so if you take your time with it, you can really learn a lot in my opinion. There are two things wrong with it though.
1) The pronounciation section, I think its lacking. There should be more examples and a few more oral excercises before the start of the real coursework
2) There are some typos in it that are a small nuisance, like for example when they intended to make a statement bold and the forget to make the last word bold, or in some few instances the last letter of a word might be capitalized when its not supposed to. An example would be the word "doi" (radio -- the accents were left off), and in some instances it was typed as "doI", just a silly typo.

all in all it is a good book.