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| Pimsleur is the real deal for learning languages by listening to CDs or tapes. The cheaper alternatives just don't do the job like Pimsleur does. Useless memorization of colors, letters of the alphabet and such that most the other programs are based on are painfully boring and mostly useless. Don't spend your money on the cheaper programs if you're serious about learning.
The Pimsleur lessons each build logically on the previous lesson but they take you back enough to reinforce what you've already learned. There is no workbook or tedious word drills. You just listen and repeat and answer their questions in Italian. Everyone who listens to the first lesson is amazed at how easy it is and how much they remember. All of the lessons are the same format as the first, just building on what you already learned. The lessons are easy but they're also challenging and it does take commitment to get through them. You can't rush through them and you do need to concentrate while you're listening to absorb the lesson. I hit a few plateaus where I had to repeat lessons several times until I felt comfortable enough to move on. That did get a little boring at times, but once I got it, the retention stuck and made the next lesson easier. The first ten lessons are the most painful because things seem so different than what you're used to but then you begin to get into the area where you can combine vocabulary to form simple phrases and it gets much more fun. By the end of the lessons you're able to put together much more meaningful phrases and begin to understand the basics of the grammar. They don't teach much grammar but it is a "beginners" lesson so you get about what you would expect. Beginner is deceptive. After completing this program you will be fathoms further ahead than you would from following any other alternative short of a classroom and even then it's debatable if classroom instruction would teach you more. I know the price is painful but don't waste your money on anything else. |
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