This is not a textbook, so you are not supposed to learn a lot from it, yet it is structured very well and many of the phrases will get stuck in your mind. It looks very nice, it's compact and shiny. It has a small dictionary in the end, which will not be very helpful if you are looking for random nouns, as it only contains few hundred words, but will help you find essential ones like : 'how','can','what','where', etc.
Everything is transcribed for complete beginners. There's no IPA, only equivalent (or close) sounds in English.
All essential phrases are there and everything that is missing, can be composed by a reader intelligent enough.
Great little thing.