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ISBN: 0671315250

ISBN13: 9780671315252

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SPEAK FRENCH TO LEARN FRENCHThe Pimsleur Method will have you speaking French in just a few short, easy-to-use lessons.Learn at your own pace, comfortably and conveniently.No books to study. No memorization drills.LEARN FRENCH AS YOU LEARNED ENGLISHYou learned English by listening. With Pimsleur, you listen to learn French. This Language Program was developed by renowned memory expert, Dr. Paul Pimsleur. His research led him to the realization that the most important use of memory is in language learning. Based on this, Dr. Pimsleur designed a learning program that works for any language. The Pimsleur Language Program is an integrated system which immerses you in the language, encouraging you to hear, understand and use the language all at the same time.Now you can take advantage of Dr. Pimsleur's research. At the completion of these eight lessons you will comfortably understand and speak at a beginner level. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Painless way for busy people to learn a new language

I would thoroughly recommend this method of learning for busy people with no time to attend a class or to sit for hours pouring over a book.It's especially suitable for those with car journeys to and from work.It strikes me as the most natural way for our brains to learn a language - listening and repeating - exactly the way we all learned to speak as babies. This is particularly relevent to learning Chinese, as the correct...

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Confidence Building

I bought the 30 tape course in November 2001 for a trip to Beijing in February 02. Now maybe I was being a little ambitious expecting to learn much however I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised. The course was easy to follow. As other reviewers have done I listened to the tape driving to work. Due to the rapidly approaching holiday I also went out in my lunch hour and parked up in my car in a quiet place listening...

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Learn Mandarin while u drive... plus postscript

After taking traditional courses in Latin, Italian, and German, I thought it would be a real challenge in my senior years to learn something completely different. Enter Mandarin. After searching out various taped programs to use while I commuted to work, I opted for the small Pimsleur tape version. Soon I realized I needed to upgrade to the full 30 unit CD version(the beginning was identical to the sample tape version). It...

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best system for *introduction* to a language

I know from reading other reviews of Pimsleur language programs that people are sometimes taken aback by the rather basic vocabulary the program leaves you with and the lack of written material. Bear in mind, the Pimsleur program is an excellent *introduction* to a language. It can't be beat for helping you with pronunciation and with learning the "core" of a language. If you want to become fluent that is going to take...

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Excellent language program

My Chinese girlfriend could actually understand me after two days of working with these tapes. She said my pronounciation was quite good! Don't be discouraged if each unit takes longer than a day, you will get there if you persist.

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