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| Author: Pimsleur
Publisher: Pimsleur
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 28946
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Revised, 16 Lessons
Number Of Items: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.9 x 2.2
ISBN: 0743550471
Dewey Decimal Number: 430
EAN: 9780743550475
ASIN: 0743550471
Publication Date: December 5, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Learning German in Germany December 25, 2007
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this box set for my boyfriend who is serving at a German army base. He says it has been helpful and he sleeps with the cds playing in his ears. Luckily, most Germans speak English but they appreciate your effort to speak German.
Not bad November 1, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Fairly solid grounding in beginning German; strong on pronunciation but short on vocabulary. And possessed of some very strange interchanges. You ask Frau Meyer if she wants some wine. She does. Then you ask her if she also wants a beer, as apparently she's either an alcoholic or you're trying to get her looped. So while you learn a little bit of German very well, it doesn't quite build enough vocabulary to have a conversation much beyond "I know a little German but I don't speak it well." And you'll sound like you're kidding when you say it with such good pronunciation, rendering the phrase almost useless.
Guten Tag October 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This product works fairly well for me. Being a person that learns more by listening rather than reading, this type of media fits me more than just picking up a book. This set works at a slow enough pace that anyone should be able to pick up on the phonetics of the german language.
Good System September 10, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
My last German language experience was the three years I took in high school back in 1969. The German language has always fascinated me and lately my wife and I have discussed taking a trip to Germany and I looked around until I found this course to help me brush up on the language.
The technique works. I was amazed at how fast what I had learned 38 years ago came back to me. Even had I not remembered any German, the lessons would still have been easy to learn. However, some lessons you will probably have to listen to a couple of times to be sure you master at least 80% of the lesson.
This particular short course is good for one reason and that is to see if you want to learn the German language, never having studied it before. Its an inexpensive way to "get your feet wet". However, if you already know you that want to learn enough to get you past ordering food, asking directions or dealing with vendors, get Level I of the Pimsleur oomprehensive course.
This Conversational German course is the same as the first 16 lessons of the 30-lesson Level I course. I wish I had discovered that before I ordered this shorter course but that's my fault.
 I Thought it Would be Harder August 3, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I decided I'd like to learn some German, I bought these because they had good rating and a great price. I wasn't disapointed! I can see why Pimsleur's method is "Scientifically Proven"... They start off with a phrase, tell you what each word means, and then repeat it word by word (very clearly pronounced) and you repeat it back, until you can say the whole phrase just as it was spoken to you. Then they add some variations or extra words to the phrase so you get an idea of the grammar (ie. how to turn a phrase into a question, or add "not," "no," "please" or "very" to it.)
Pimsleur uses both male and female speakers so you can hear the realistic ways of saying the female/male words and also you get some variety in the way the words sound.
The method is so effective, that you probably won't even have to listen to each half-hour lesson more than once if you pay attention, as each subsequent lesson build upon what you've just heard and has you continue to repeat it. At the beginning of each lesson the tape has you listen to a conversation, and then you learn how to say the things they just said. At the end, they have you partake in the conversation, and you realize how much you learned.
I highly recommend Pimsleur to anyone. Now I speak German to my family to confuse them, and I'm looking forward to someday going to Germany.
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