Friday, August 8, 2008

What Is Pimsleur Method ?

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The Pimsleur method is an audio-based system, in which the listener constructs phrases or repeats from memory out loud along with a recording.
is made up of multiple thirty-minute lessons, which are repeated until 80% comprehension is attained, at which point the user may continue to the next lesson. As the lessons repeat themselves and add new material.

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As I Said Before I Used Pimsleur Method and Audio Programm for my Japanese Language Learning.Well As I realized till now the Method Is this.

Pimsleur Method :
Well It Started a conversation in Japanese Language between an American man and a Japanese Woman which is happening in a train.
after the conversation finished the narrator started to explain everything and asks you to focus on what you here and repeat everything loudly.
The Lessons takes about 20 to 40 min every one and the system is all this i said.

Pimsleur's Good Points :

1: It Teaches you real accent because you repeat after the native Japanese Speaker and so you will try to do it exactly like her because your brain will do that.

2: It Is Quiet Cheap, you don't need to pay a fortune on it.

Pimsleurs Bad Point :

1: It is Just Audio , I mean there are no books (of course there are some booklets but they are really worthless) So you cant practice Grammar, Handwriting , Speaking and ... which you need to learn for improving your language.

Tip! As for Japanese This one is good because I didn't to start Learning Kanji writing system .

2:Some times you really dont understand what the speaker says, The accent becomes too weird that it makes you tired of this method.

Recommendation To Pimsleur Makers !

Thanks for your great method.
But It Is Going to really help the learner's If and if you put those Dialogues Transcript in a text file attached to audio files.


German Language !

Hi!
As You May Know It's Sometimes that I have started studying some Languages.
These days I am studying German Language , Russian language and recently I've Started Japanese Language.
But the Bad stuff is I dont know why I am Become tired soon.
When I Think It's Because Ive Become Lazy.
But from Know I explain Which Book I am Studying for Learning Those Languages.
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As For German Language .
Yea I Started Tangram Aktuell & and I am Using German Rosetta Stone too.
I will write my experiences here sooon.
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As For Russian Languages First I started to study CTAPT 1 (Start1)
It's a real old book.
But after studying CTAPT 1 (Start1) , I bought a book called russian language Grammar in Picture.
It's a good book for grammar as I think learning russian without knowledge of its cases (padezh)
is impossible.
I bought a russian language Dictionary too.
Oxford Mini pocket russian dictionary ,it's quiet nice.
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As For Japanese Language I Afforded Mina No Ni Hongo and Unfortunately I understood nothing out of it.
So as could find nothing else in my country I started to learn Hiragana Writing system and alphabet .
I afforded Hapanese Language Pimsleur too.
It's A real good way to learn that Language.
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I will write my experiences here from now.
Looking forward to your comments.