I bought this book as I'm going to work in India for six months, and have no prior knowledge on the language. The book has no phonetic translation to help you along the way, and is in no way long enough to possibly teach anyone Hindi in a month! The words are also not words that would be used every day either. When my copy arrived (which I ordered 'new'), the pages had been photocopied wrong and in the wrong order, with bad ink so it was already smudged, and the pages were cut unevenly. I now have a Hindi teacher who even says half of the transltations in script are wrong. Do not buy!!!! The only reason this book gets one star is because it is small, and well, if you do find it helps, it fits in your pocket. Not that you would ever want to use it!