So I start talking fairly early, a few months in, usually around the time I finish Pimsleur. I want to become a good speaker (B2+) as quickly and effectively as possible. My language plan was intentionally adapted to Pimsleur, but that wasn’t the only criteria that designed it. The second benefit was preparing me to converse. Also, I often hear teachers claim that students who start with Pimsleur have better pronunciation on the average, so I’m not the only one who feels this way. I believe it’s easier and more effective to use Pimsleur than to shadow random native material. In fact that’s one of it’s main focuses it’s designed to help you develop good sentence level pronunciation. The first big benefit I learned about Pimsleur was the fact that it gave me great pronunciation. Now I’d like to explain why I designed a plan like this by saying what it was that made me like Pimsleur so much. It’s deeply imbedded in my plan, and I’m heavily dependant on it.

So you can see that in 1.(b) Pimsleur is my source of everything (except for listening). Start reading the Pimsleur transcript, learning Pimsleur vocabulary and doing scriptorium with Pimsleur sentences through anki the day after doing the lesson.Ģ.ěegin to converse with tutors and use anki to review it’s vocabulary, start reading on lingq, work through a grammar, continue listening and scriptorium.ģ.Ĝontinue listening, conversing, reading on lingq and doing scriptorium until goal is met. (b) Learn pronunciation at the sentence level by using Pimsleur. (a) Learn the alphabet, pronunciation of phonemes and pronunciation of words. In addition to Japanese, I’ve used it for Thai, Mandarin, French and Russian. I first used Pimsleur in 2005 for Japanese, and I was so impressed by the results, I actually designed a language learning plan that would have Pimsleur at it’s very root in the beginning. How is this possible? Well, it’s the way I use it. It doesn’t adequately teach pronunciation of phonemesĪctually, I agree with all of these statements, but I still love it.It doesn’t teach much vocabulary or grammar.Here are some negative things they say about it: I rely on it heavily in the beginning, and think it’s great, so it bothers me when I see people call it worthless. Pimsleur gets a pretty bad rap from many people. Actually, this is more of a “to what extent do I use Pimsleur” explanation than a detailed step by step description, but if you have specific questions about details, I’d be glad to answer. I’m going to review Pimsleur Korean 1 here, but first I think it’s important to give you an idea of how I use Pimsleur.

Italian pimsleur transcripts