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| Author: Pimsleur
Publisher: Pimsleur
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
Buy New: $19.50
You Save: $30.45 (61%)
New (25) Used (11) from $19.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 32159
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 2.1
ISBN: 0743550420
Dewey Decimal Number: 440
EAN: 9780743550420
ASIN: 0743550420
Publication Date: October 3, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW - FACTORY SEALED - SHIPS NEXT BUSINESS DAY - EXPEDITED SHIPPING AVAILABLE!
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 Great product September 11, 2006
49 out of 50 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic product, and one of the best ways to really get an early handle on grammar, and an outstanding way to practice speaking and pronounciation at any level. However, please do not do not get disapointed when you don't speak perfect French in 8 hours. This will give you basic tools to build on, but then you need to spend some time in a French country, or take several years of university classes.
When considering the investment in a foriegn language, consider that it may take 1000 hours (for an extremely easy language like French) to feel very comfortable in the language. That's one hour of serious study each day for three years. Or you can go sit in a Parisian cafe and talk to people who are willing to tutor you (extremely hard to find without some pretty good skills to start with) and you might get there in a few months.
I like this product because it's the very best available for naturally teaching you the grammar basics and for helping you to build the core vocabulary (stuff like and, but, or, many, few, the, a, an, whowhatwhenwherewhy), the core language structure (negation, word order), and it's outstanding for it's ability to teach language sounds...
A side note...be willing to sleep between lesson times. Something happens when you sleep, and you'll be better at it by the next lesson. That's why it's important to do this every single day, so that you have the maximum number of study-sleep cycles.
 waste of time for some 'pick-up' lines August 24, 2006
31 out of 67 found this review helpful
8 hours of cd's, and a nice bonus cd holder...and you will learn about ten different pick-up lines (or, how to recognize that the woman does *not* want to go for a drink with you). After 8 hours of (granted, well-articulated) repetition, you will have the phrases down pat, but it's an awful lot of time spent to only be equipped with enough phrases to get some mythical French woman to go out with you...and then have nothing further to say to her. I'm afraid I highly regret this purchase...even at a quarter of the price I would feel the same. Not to mention the hours of listening, hoping it might somehow get better. It didn't.
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