It contains a lot of English, but that’s just required in the format they have invented I’m not afraid of translation at this stage. It doesn’t teach much vocabulary (about 500 word families) or grammar, but I don’t want it to, because automaticity requires a lot of repetition and adding a lot of extra vocabulary and grammar would require a lot of extra time to reach the same level of comfort. It’s expensive, but certainly worth it to me. I usually end up paying $200-$300 total for all 90 lessons. Let me briefly explain why the negative bullet points listed earlier don’t keep me from loving Pimsleur. I can’t imagine an easier way to break into them than reading and writing out answers for anki cards of things I hear and pronounce as frequently as those in a Pimsleur script. The time limit Pimsleur allows for responding and frequent repetitions give me automaticity with some core grammar and vocabulary, and this is very helpful when starting to talk. So I start talking fairly early, a few months in, usually around the time I finish Pimsleur. I want to become a good speaker (B2+) as quickly and effectively as possible. My language plan was intentionally adapted to Pimsleur, but that wasn’t the only criteria that designed it. The second benefit was preparing me to converse. Also, I often hear teachers claim that students who start with Pimsleur have better pronunciation on the average, so I’m not the only one who feels this way. I believe it’s easier and more effective to use Pimsleur than to shadow random native material. In fact that’s one of it’s main focuses it’s designed to help you develop good sentence level pronunciation. The first big benefit I learned about Pimsleur was the fact that it gave me great pronunciation. Now I’d like to explain why I designed a plan like this by saying what it was that made me like Pimsleur so much. It’s deeply imbedded in my plan, and I’m heavily dependant on it. So you can see that in 1.(b) Pimsleur is my source of everything (except for listening). Start reading the Pimsleur transcript, learning Pimsleur vocabulary and doing scriptorium with Pimsleur sentences through anki the day after doing the lesson.Ģ.ěegin to converse with tutors and use anki to review it’s vocabulary, start reading on lingq, work through a grammar, continue listening and scriptorium.ģ.Ĝontinue listening, conversing, reading on lingq and doing scriptorium until goal is met. (b) Learn pronunciation at the sentence level by using Pimsleur. (a) Learn the alphabet, pronunciation of phonemes and pronunciation of words. In addition to Japanese, I’ve used it for Thai, Mandarin, French and Russian. I first used Pimsleur in 2005 for Japanese, and I was so impressed by the results, I actually designed a language learning plan that would have Pimsleur at it’s very root in the beginning. How is this possible? Well, it’s the way I use it. It doesn’t adequately teach pronunciation of phonemesĪctually, I agree with all of these statements, but I still love it.It doesn’t teach much vocabulary or grammar.Here are some negative things they say about it: I rely on it heavily in the beginning, and think it’s great, so it bothers me when I see people call it worthless. Pimsleur gets a pretty bad rap from many people. Actually, this is more of a “to what extent do I use Pimsleur” explanation than a detailed step by step description, but if you have specific questions about details, I’d be glad to answer. Bui khichite sebodnya janimaetsa?" and so on.I’m going to review Pimsleur Korean 1 here, but first I think it’s important to give you an idea of how I use Pimsleur. – Так я не понимаю – ты был там или нет? – Да нет же, нет!! ( – So I didn't understand it completely: were you there or not? – NO! NO!)Latin transcription in this post is TERRIBLE.
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Maybe in some context it can be translated "of course" (like in this sentence), but it's not necessery at all.įor example, you'd like to say: "– Do you love me? – Of course!"īut in Russian "– Ты любишь меня? – Да нет!" means "Do you love me? – Not at all!" –tui ebo ni lubis Да нет, люблю! (You don't love him – Of corse I do!)
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Russian "да нет!" = german "doch" or French "si", it's a sort of rejoinder, for example:
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Мой муж хочет –moi mus khochet My husband wants. Моя жена может –maya jjena mojjet my wife can. Вы понимаете?–bui ponimaeche-s Do you understand? Dear sir If you will do in this way more people can learn russian language easily.