I feel I’m making exponential progress now. Now that I have a basic vocabulary and have a “feel” of how the language flows, all that seemingly insurmountable grammar makes sense now. W O W ! ! I now realize that I have been trying to learn the language upside down. I finally went with the Pimsleur 1-3 Russian course. I would get mired down with grammar that didn’t make sense, and put them down for a year, for 20 some-odd years. I have to play like nineteen rounds of tennis and top them off with a late arrival at some business party in Argentina just to absorb a couple of those darn Pimsleur lessons.įor years, I tried to learn Russian by reading books. You’re lucky I despise legitimacy as much as I do, or I would resent your connoidling me in these illiticisms (I do so love the English language…).Īlso, just be glad you’re not one of those kinetic learners like me. So Ya–I mean, boredstratikhstahistiker–I’ve been getting these lessons illicitly? I knew something was up with that within-a-week self-destruction sequence. Interesting! Yakov, you will make a great linguist! Now I want to try Pimsleur… I would actually consider myself a visual learner in general, but sometimes with language it’s better to remember stuff audially, since that is, after all, how it comes out when you’re speaking. Maybe I’ll blog about this.Ĭongrats on all your Pimsleur achievements!įunny you should say that. This is something which is a problem in my classes– I tend to teach in a visual way, too, and not all learners are visual, which you don’t seem to be, for example. I’m a definite visual learner, so learning by audio doesn’t work for me unless I can also see the word (or imagine it in my head, if I’m familiar with the phonetics and the alphabet (like with Spanish)). You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Ĩ Responses to “Pimsleur German Completed!”
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Decemat 2:41 pm and is filed under German, Languages, Spanish. What do you guys think? Anyone ever try Pimsleur? Or find something better? And as long as we’re keeping track, I just got through the first 1350 words on my Russian frequency list. I listen to these on my Ipod as I go about my life doing various things, and also to Podcasts I’ll talk about some other time. By the way, I’m on lesson 12 of Spanish III (that is, the 72nd lesson). And mostly on the basis of Pimsleur and my Yiddish, I can have a pretty decent conversation in German. Overall, though, Pimsleur is as good a way to begin learning a language as any I’ve come across. Are most people going to foreign countries engineers who play golf? I don’t get it. For some reason, you always learn the words for “engineer” (before all other jobs, I think), “tennis” and “golf” but so far not any other sports, and so on. When you’ve done as much Pimsleur as I have, you start seeing the patterns.
#PIMSLEUR GERMAN TRANSCRIPT PLUS#
This is kind of bizarre. I don’t know if this is also the case for other Plus packs, but I suspect it is. I learned the words for “publishing”, “audiobook”, “editor”, “author”, “publishing house”, “bookstore”, “bookseller”, “bestseller”, and so on. I don’t know why they do this instead of continuing to introduce vocabulary of general use. For some reason, all the vocabulary was based around the publishing industry. Then, for some languages, there is a “bonus” pack of ten lessons. So far I’ve gone through Pimsleur Portuguese and Russian, each with 90 half-hour lessons, and today I finished the 100th (and last) lesson of Pimsleur German! Every 30 lessons are grouped together (e.g., Russian I is lessons 1-30, Russian II lessons 31-60, etc.) until 90. I would begin learning a language using Pimsleur (if available), using Anki intermittently as you encounter specific vocabulary you want or need to know, and then when you’re done with Pimsleur, continue with Anki using, in addition, a frequency list (if available) to make the most of your vocabulary building energies. In the end, I’m not really sure why I’m framing this as a comparison between Pimsleur and Anki, since they’re not mutually exclusive alternatives, but both valuable components to your language learning. Similarly, you don’t get to personalize what you learn as you can with Anki.
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