I was talking very specifically about his "Language Builder" series. The pause button, you aren't giving it a fair chance. I don't mean any offence but if you try to use a Michel Thomas course without using "Ça va", really? They don't get around to teaching that straight away? Even I know that one and I don't speak or study French. They introduce concepts according to their "lowest common denominator" logic, but that's another story. Of course, that's one of the inherent problems with courses. Most courses tend to make it a big bad bugaboo and seem to avoid introducing it until you are "ready" or they just have no choice and have to introduce it. The all audio definitely has a place in the language-learning mix.Īs to introducing the subjunctive earlier, I wholeheartedly agree.
Are Phase IV and V all audio too, or is there a multimedia component as well? I seem to remember Pimsleur was flirting with becoming more like RS at one point, which would be a shame. I'm used to thinking of Pimsleur as a three level, 90 lesson course. Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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Wouldn't pay full price for it, but if you can get a discounted course I'd highlyġ0 persons have voted this message useful Iĭon't get to practice spoken French much, so for me this course is perfect.
Main strength is helping with pronunciation and building automaticity in speech. As iguanamon said in another thread earlier today, Pimsleur's It's common enough, and I always feel like I'm unlearning the indicative when theseĬourses finally getting around to covering the subjunctive.Īs usual for Pimsleur, this is an adjunct to studying. Or at least for the first and third person "to have" and "to be." I also think that Pimsleur - and most courses - should introduce the subjunctive rightĪt the beginning. I mentioned that they use a bit of humor. I've done Level IV for Italian,įrench, and Spanish, and each of them followed a similar track. So far it feels like a solid continuation of Phase IV. Phase 1 where we ask a girl if she'd like a drink, over and over again). Problem I'll ever face, but at least it's far more interesting than the dialogues in I fell while mountain climbing in the Alps. Je suis tombé en faisant de l'escalade dans les alpes. By lesson five the sentences have gotten slightly more complicated: We're beyond learning new concepts, and are now practicing them. It really is an intermediate+ level course, and the French feels more natural. Read, but don't use it naturally when I speak. This has been the main benefit for me - I recognize the subjunctive when I Role right from the beginning (the subjunctive was introduced around lesson 20 in Like Phase IV the dialogues mix in a lot of tenses. In one sectionĪ man introduces his family to his copain, and they leave it ambiguous as to Pull at various body parts, and call each other names (apparently andouille isīoth a sausage and an insult). Violating curfew, and in another two cousins argue, push and shove each other, tug and In one dialogue a teen gets in trouble for I haven't seen many reviewsĪnywhere for it, so I figured I'd share my first impressions (based upon the first I started Pimsleur French V at the beginning of the month.
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