Pimsleur Foreign Language Audio-Only Courses
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Dr. Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of the world's leading experts in applied linguistics. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and Phonemics, and supervised the language laboratory at UCLA. He went on to become Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center at Ohio State University; Professor of Education and Romance Languages at the State University of New York at Albany; and a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Pimsleur was a member of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). His many books and articles revolutionized theories of language learning and teaching. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed a new method that is based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory that he called Graduated Interval Recall. This program incorporates both of these principles to provide you with the most simple and effective learning method possible.
Pimsleur Comprehensive Programs
Everything needed to actually learn to speak a foreign language in one package -- the essential grammar and vocabulary, all in context with no mindless repetition required -- 30 lessons offering spoken-language fluency with a performance guarantee.
Pimsleur Level 1 - Upon completion of a Level 1, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will be able to
- initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations,
- deal with every day situations -- ask for information, directions, and give basic information about yourself and family,
- communicate basic information on informal topics and participate in casual conversations,
- avoid basic cultural errors and handle minimum courtesy and travel requirements,
- satisfy personal needs and limited social demands,
- establish rapport with strangers in foreign countries,
- begin reading and sounding out items with native-like pronunciation.
Pimsleur Level 2 - Level 2 will double your vocabulary and grammatical structures while increasing your spoken proficiency exponentially. Upon completion of a level 2, you will be able to
- engage in fuller conversations involving yourself, your family, daily activities, interests and personal preferences,
- combine known elements into increasingly longer sentences and strings of sentences,
- create with language and function in informal situations,
- deal with concrete topics in the past, present, and future,
- meet social demands and limited job requirements,
- begin reading for meaning.
Pimsleur Level 3 - Level 3 will increase your vocabulary and grammatical structures and triple your spoken proficiency. Upon completion of a level 3, you will be able to
- participate in most informal and some formal discussions on practical, social, and some semi-professional topics,
- form longer sentences while maintaining the target language syntax,
- be understood even by native speakers unused to dealing with foreigners,
- handle increasingly difficult grammatical structures,
- enjoy fluent conversations with a variety of strangers,
- have a near-native accent, and the subtleties of the language will be apparent in your speech,
- read at the same level at which you speak.
Pimsleur Plus - Plus Programs will
- build upon the language corpus acquired in Levels I, II, and III,
- include real-life situations (working in a publishing company and attending a trade fair),
- include a more interpersonal exchange of language at a higher level, using diverse language strategies.
Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English as a Second Language, ESL, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Ojibwe, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Twi, Ukrainian, Vietnamese |
