Colloquial Chinese and Colloquial Persian

These are the book and audio packages for two of the languages in the Routledge Colloquials language learning series, namely (Mandarin) Chinese and Persian. I’ve thrown out the boxes, but kept the contents. I don’t know why they ship in such unnecessary large containers with so much empty space, but I guess it’s partly to protect the contents during shipping, and partly so that buyers feel that they’re getting their money’s worth. The boxes do look quite impressive sitting on a bookshelf, although they’re an enormous waste of real estate.

I actually have the CD version of Colloquial Persian, even though the box says it’s the cassette version. When I ordered the book and CD package, they were out of stock, so they shipped me the cassette version instead, along with the CD (which can be purchased independently). I guess nobody was buying the cassette version any more, and they were overstocked.

– davinci 11776

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