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 enlarge | Author: Pimsleur
Publisher: Pimsleur
Category: Book
List Price: $295.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 997574
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: 2 Revised
Number Of Items: 16
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 13 x 10.5 x 2.2
ISBN: 0743523563
Dewey Decimal Number: 468
EAN: 9780743523561
ASIN: 0743523563
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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 But what about reading & writing ? October 21, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am almost through the Spanish I course, am enjoying it, & plan to continue with Pimsleur at least through Spanish II. I took 4 yrs. of high school Spanish back in the late 60's, so much of the first course is like a review. I do it while I'm on the elliptical, might as well accomplish two things at once. My issue with this course is that there is no teaching of grammar, reading, or writing! Because of my HS studies, I can picture the words in my mind and KNOW how they are spelled! I also remember how to conjugate many of the verbs. Without instruction in grammar & vocabulary it is incomplete. SPEAKING the language is only part of learning it!
 FUN September 23, 2006
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have just completed all three levels of the Pimsleur course and for me it was fun and I learned alot of Spanish. I think one of the main things when you are trying to learn a language is that whatever learning method you chose doesn't discourage you and the Pimsleur course kept my interest and made it fun and easy enough so that I continued and progressed. What good is a course if you become so discouraged, bored, or iritated with it that you give up? Most of the others are like that. I have listened to other CD series and in my opinion, Pimlseur is the best. The others invariably talk too fast, use words and phrases they haven't previously introduced, or just end up being a string of phrases or vocabulary with no context or story-line. I heartily recommend Pimsleur I,II, and III.
Bookchips are better May 9, 2006
7 out of 30 found this review helpful
Bookchip version is better and easier to use, ( 3 bookchips compared to 52 cds) I bought bookchips and cds, send cds back. Buy Bookchip (Audiofy Bookchip) instead.
110 enjoyable lessons but "Hablo espanol solo un poco" May 3, 2006
36 out of 41 found this review helpful
Plus I don't spell Spanish worth a diddle. Is it "kero" or "quiero"?
I plowed through all levels of Pimsleur's Spanish, and at the end, much to my disappointment, I don't speak fluently, and almost every conversation I attempt quickly gets switched to English by the native speaker who takes pity on me. And one drawback of a listen and learn system is you don't learn the written language. I accept this compromise, because I drive 40,000 miles a year, and want to learn while I drive.
After completing all the Pimsleur lessons, including the 10-lesson advanced set, I believed I need more lessons, but dreaded doing Pimsleur all over again, so I checked out the 3-level set of "Spanish: Learn in Your Car CD" from the library. It will take months to complete the lessons so I am ordering the set from Amazon. At less than $32 it seems like a giveaway compared to the cost of Pimsleur.
I am not bitter and don't regret the time spent with Pimsleur. I just feel a need to have a different approach to upgrading my Spanish. I need drill. Put all the numbers together in several consecutive lessons. Put all the colors in a lesson. Drill me on the full conjugations of some verbs in various tenses. "Learn in Your Car" is doing this for me, expanding my vocabulary and engaging the left side of my brain to supplement the intuitive, go-with-the-flow approach of Pimsleur.
Language theorists tell us we learn a foreign language best the way a child learns his first language, through immersion. But I know I would not be able to write and speak English at the level I do if I had relied solely on growing up with native speakers. I had a mother who said "look it up in the dictionary." I diagramed sentences in 5th through 7th grades. I was taught verb conjugations, the difference between strong and weak verbs, subject-verb agreement, and how to know when to say "Jim and I" and when to say "Jim and me." I was drilled in vocabulary and spelling and rewarded for improvement.
So I am convinced that there are different channels for learning a language, and they all reinforce each other. I will complete the "Learn in Your Car" series, the "Behind the Wheel" series. And then I may even return to Pimsleur for review. I will learn Spanish.
Looking at the pattern of how people check out Pimsleur at my local public library, I am convinced that most people give up before finishing the whole sequence.
Pimsleur may work better for you on cassette than on CD, so you can rewind and listen again to the part that you missed when a dog ran in front of your car.
Checking out a Pimsleur volume at the library is a problem, because it will be overdue before you are through with it. You could burn a CD or dupe a cassette, but of course that is illegal, and a violation of Pimsleur's copyright. You can Google and find several Internet vendors that will buy back each Pimsleur volume as you finish with it. They will buy it for less than you paid, of course, but it is almost like renting it, and the cost is not bad at all.
Pimsleurs Spanish Level 1 March 17, 2006
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a great method to learn in your car. I have tried other products and they require memorizing without context, which is difficult to retain. I have been happy with the progress I am making.
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