I went through the 30-lesson course over a month and feel I have a pretty good understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the system. The course being sold by Simon & Schuster comes in 30 half hour sessions, or in smaller units of 10 half hour sessions. It was developed based on research carried out by linguist Paul Pimsleur several decades ago. The Pimsleur language learning system is an audio based course that presents phrases in the target language first, and then in your mother tongue for you to translate into that language.
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I am presuming that it would have content similar to the Hungarian course in other languages like Pimsleur Spanish etc. I'm not affiliated with Pimsleur in any way (as I have my own ways of approaching language learning), so this isn't a sales pitch, as I will be very critical of it. This post is an honest and frank look at the course I completed and it is not some blog post about how Pimsleur is a scam, etc. But this was nothing more than a lazy excuse based on preferences – there is little evidence of it being true for most people.Īnother reason I wouldn't use this course is because it's very expensive ( just Level 1 for of any given language is US$150 for example), but the previous tenant of my flat in Budapest left quite a lot of Hungarian learning material, including Pimsleur's Hungarian, so it was time to try it out! (You can also get it in some libraries, and of course many people tell me they have used the pirated versions). I was under the impression that audio based learning wouldn't work for me, as I considered myself a “visual” learner. In the recent survey about the “best” courses, Pimsleur came out on top, both among the best and the worst.ĭespite almost a decade of learning languages, I have to admit that I had never tried the Pimsleur approach.
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