Language CD - Pimsleur CDDownload the Language Audio Files to Burn your own Language CDLanguage CD's are certainly the most efficient way to learn a foreign language, short of living in the actual area where the language is spoken. A language learning CD ROM helps the student to pick up the right accent and to learn correct pronunciation from start. Something that is not the case when using only text books to learn a foreign language. Even if you are taught by a language teacher, you are not sure to pick up the right accent and pronunciation. Only when your language teacher is also a native speaker of the language you are learning, will you be 100% sure that all pronunciations and the accent are correct. The best known and most used Languag CD program is the one by Pimsleur. the Pimsleur method has been developed over the course of 40 years by Dr. Paul Pimsleur, a linguist and language educator. Hes found that the system our brain uses when we learn our first language is present also in older people, and can be used to our advantage when learning a second language.
Exposure to language CDs, i.e. simply listening to a langauge CD repeatedly helps the brain to start associating meaning to sounds and you can passively 'absorb' a language. The Pimsleur method goes one step furhter and has the student repeat the phrases and words, thus speeding up the process of language learning. Also, because the language student does not have to first learn foreign language vocabulary or grammar, but starts to speak whole, useful phrases, the motivation for learning a second language remains high and is not frustrated by monotonous rote learning and failure to put the learned words, grammatical rules and declinations into a context and to form useful phrases. A language CD let's you immediately start with conversation, you learn how to interact and say greetings in foreign languages, thank you, hello, etc. You also learn how to count, how to ask for directions, order food and drinks, check in to a hotel and other useful things. Then you can easily expand your knowlege of a foreign language by listeing to other sources, like radio, or by watching TV, foreign language movies etc. But the best way to expand your knowledge of the foreigen language is to meet nativ speakers and use the phrases you have learned and add new words to your vocabulary in these conversations. There is a language CD available for every major languge, the Pimsleur program encompasses the most important languages worldwide. Check out the entire Pimsleur language CD program here.
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What satisfied customers say about the Pimsleur CDs:
I purchased the Pimsleur's
Conversational Spanish CD set. I am a military brat and stand
true to the belief that learning another language should start
at the early elementary age. I retained more Japanese in 3
years, 24 years ago, than 3 years of studying Spanish at the
high school level.
Being in the construction industry, the hispanic community and
workers have flourished, and with that my need to communicate
with them. I have bought and tried other types of audio Spanish
teaching media, but the Pimsleur's method is truly the only one
that actually teaches you to think for yourself, which is what
is actually going to happen when your in a conversation.
To start with a conversation, and not memorizing all the verbs
and their tenses and numbers, etc has made this very enjoyable
and wanting to buy the entire volume. It's like starting to
play an instrument: you don't want to learn all the scales and
how to read music, you just want to be able to play a song or
two right away, and that's what this Conversational Spanish
does. -- Nole Chic, Florida, USA
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Over the years I have studied many languages, using several methods and media, and I can say without any reserve that the Pimsleur method is by far the best.
The lessons are structured in
such a way that promote natural learning and retention of
the material. Two things that I love about the Pimsleur courses
are (1) Pronunciation is stressed, whereas in most language
programs this vital topic is only given cursory coverage,
and
(2) Repetition,
Repetition, Repetition! In
the Pimsleur lessons they repeat new material several times,
prompting you in several different ways, so you learn new
material better. In addition, all new lessons contain at least
some review of previous lessons, so it forces you to review and
use old information.
The Pimsleur courses are a very, very good starting point for learning a new language. A common problem that most people have is going through rote exercises, getting to a certain point in the language, quitting, and never really learning anything. These courses are interesting, consistent, and engaging enough so that that very major hurtle shouldn't be a problem. Also, because it's an entirely oral/aural course, if you actually repeat everything as instructed, by the end of level 3 you are going to have a comfort level with speaking that most courses (and even college classes) won't give you. -- C. P. Leroy
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