![]() Now, Pimsleur is not without its critics, and rightly so because we humans should always question and criticise. That’s 15-75 hours of glorious speaking and listening practice. Each level has 30 lessons of 30 minutes each, with 1-5 levels available for each language. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff when you put it that way, but it’s a method that far, far too many language learners overlook with detrimental long term results. The essence of the program is that you listen to native speakers of your target language and then repeat what they say. Presently, around 50 languages are offered. Then it graduated to CDs, MP3s and now has finally entered the 21st century with mobile apps. ![]() It’s been around since 1963 and the program was originally offered on cassette tapes. It seems pretty cool to knock Pimsleur these days, so I'm here to give it a little love.įor those of you who are already familiar with Pimsleur, you can skip the next 2 paragraphs.įor those of you who don’t know what the hell a Pimsleur is, it’s an old-school language learning program based more or less on the audiolinguistic approach. ![]()
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