a book reading to learn~

i have this spoken chinese book. it's really a useful book where i can learn mandarin through pinyin... it contains words in chinese-pinyin-english... but the thing is i rarely touch it.. i've been here in China since march but still i never learn or speak anything besides xiexie and ting budong hahaha.. (not even 'wo ai ni'? mahal kita were my first words in your language!) although i've also worked here 3yrs ago and stayed 6mon i still came home without having learnt not learn any other words.. pronunciation is really my biggest struggle.. so me and my co-workers (who are younger than me) and who all major in english end up laughing coz of how i read it.. but Sometimes they say i pronounce it correctly but since they all speak english and they want to improve their english i never bother to learn chinese coz i have them to translate for me.. i always call them if i need them to talk to drive or cook.. so i just learn how to order food first~ i need to survive right? hahaha. but sometimes it really frustrating if I want to be on my own i cant .~~

I won't comment on your punctuation, since you know but don't want to 'punctuate' :)

You should at least learn jiaozi, shui jiao, shen jian bao, dandan mian...