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My mother language isn't English can I learn effectively from Pimsleur? | Difference between Michel Thomas and Pimsleur methods
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Pimsleur method and core vocabulary Mon May 16, 2005 15:22 pm  Pimsleur method and core vocabulary
 

You might have heard of the Pimsleur method - a technique developed by Dr Paul Pimsleur, an American linguist. The Pimsleur system is simple but powerful: You listen to an audio program that contains the most important phrases of the language you want to learn. In addition to listening you can now practice the core Pimsleur vocabulary words with these tests:
http://pimsleur.english-test.net
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Pimsleur? Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:30 am  Pimsleur?
 

What is this Pimsleur thing all about? How does it work?
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Pimsleur overview Wed Jun 29, 2005 13:18 pm  Pimsleur overview
 

Pimsleur is the name of person who researched language learning techniques. Based on his findings he developed a system that enables you to learn a second language quite fast.
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Pimsleur courses Wed Jun 29, 2005 14:58 pm  Pimsleur courses
 

And what languages can I learn with this Pimsleur method? I have toyed with the idea of learning Italian because I like Italian food and I think the language sounds pleasant. So far I have never gotten around to actually taking up a course. I know a few phrases I have picked up from some Italians that live in our neighborhood and I listen to Italian songs from time to time but apart from that I haven't made any serious committments. I have heard people talking about those pimsleur courses but how do I know if they are any good?
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Italian Pimsleur Wed Jun 29, 2005 17:14 pm  Italian Pimsleur
 

Hi there,

So far you can choose from 39 Pimsleur languages as they often are referred to and Italian is on this list, of course.
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Pimsleur cd's or tapes? Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:16 am  Pimsleur cd's or tapes?
 

OK thanks for that. Are the Pimsleur courses also available on CD or do they come as tapes only?
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Pimsleur bookchips Thu Jul 07, 2005 15:51 pm  Pimsleur bookchips
 

You can get Pimsleur audio courses on cassettes (tapes), CD's and Bookchips.
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Bookchips Sun Jul 24, 2005 22:25 pm  Bookchips
 

I have never heard of bookchips? What is that?
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Bookchips by audiofy Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:58 am  Bookchips by audiofy
 

Bookchips are memory cards that can store large audio files. They were created by Audiofy, a company that is marketing this product exclusively.
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Pimsleur method and core vocabulary Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:10 am  Pimsleur method and core vocabulary
 

I have found the Pimsleur method, even the level 1 conversation, very effective for beginning learning a language.

With the first level lessons, you will learn a limited vocabulary of something like 50 to 100 words, but you be fluent with those words. You will be able to recall and speak them in the right context, and you will hear, recognize, and comprehend them when spoken in full speed conversation. This listening comprehension of a limited vocabulary, is priceless, useful and most valuable.

Anyone who has studied language in the traditional non-auditory, vocabulary and grammar method (as in the common high school course presentation) knows you gain zero listening comprehension by that method, and is useless for real world two way basic communication.

The power of the Pimsleur method is that the repetition and graduated intervals, along with speaking aloud in anticipation, then reinforcement, trains the subconscious part of your brain, injecting the auditory language into the language center of your brain, not the intellectual fact and figures memory part of your brain.

Ever have a song stuck in your head, that you can virtually hear? The Pimsleur method gets the voice of the other language stuck in your head! Often, when needing to recall how to say a phrase, you simply stop and listen to the memory of the voice in your head, which reminds you of the correct pronunciation.

Small vocabulary listening comprehension means as you listen to a full speed language speaker, the words and phrases you have learned, jump out at you and you know instantly what they mean. No translating mentally. This is what I mean by fluency of a limited vocabulary. You immediately understand the meaning of the words without mental translation.

The learning seems to be permanent. It has been more than 2 years, and with relatively infrequent refreshing, most of the phrases and words persist as auditory and comprehension memory.

It is clear to me that the Pimsleur method puts you on the path to fluency in a language by starting you out to be fluent for a select small vocabulary (although chosen to be useful), then comes the large task of expanding your vocabulary, that might take you a lot longer. But you are put on the fluency path at the outset, with the very first phrase.
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